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Local History Library Events

Escaping Detection: Women in the Civil War

Author and local historian Mary Lipsey will give us a look at women who participated in the Civil War as spies and as soldiers. Register if you'd like a reminder. Adults and teens. Mary Lipsey Bio M…

Date:
Monday, Nov 17, 2025
Time:
7:00pm - 8:15pm
Location:
George Mason Meeting Room, George Mason Meeting Room
Categories:
History/Culture

Burke Historical Society Presents: Burke's Architect, George Truman Ward

Burke Historical Society Lecture Series. Virginia Room Archivist/Librarian Chris Barbuschak will discuss George Truman Ward, a noted modernist architect who lived in Burke (in a house of his own desi…

Date:
Sunday, Nov 23, 2025
Time:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Pohick Meeting Room 1, Pohick Meeting Room 2, Pohick Meeting Room 1, Pohick Meeting Room 2
Categories:
History/Culture Presentation/Performance

Burke Historical Society Presents: Amazing Trailblazing Women of the Ball–Sellers House

Burke Historical Society Lecture Series. Annette Benbow from the Arlington Historical Society will discuss one of the oldest structures in Northern Virginia, Arlington's Ball–Sellers House.  In parti…

Date:
Sunday, Dec 28, 2025
Time:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Pohick Meeting Room 1, Pohick Meeting Room 2, Pohick Meeting Room 1, Pohick Meeting Room 2
Categories:
History/Culture Presentation/Performance

The American Revolution and the Fate of the World | An electrifying global history of a not-so local war

  When we think of the American Revolution, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the st…

Date:
Saturday, Apr 25, 2026
Time:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
City of Fairfax Meeting Room 101A, City of Fairfax Meeting Room 101B, City of Fairfax Meeting Room 101A, City of Fairfax Meeting Room 101B
Categories:
History/Culture Presentation/Performance

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