Weekend Roundup, Nov. 9 – 12
• November 9, 2023

This weekend, we honor the nation’s veterans for Veterans Day on Saturday. New exhibits are at the Rubell Museum and “Defining Courage” has come to the Kennedy Center. It’s also […]

Profs & Pints DC: When Nazis Prowled Our Coasts
• May 15, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “When Nazis Prowled Our Coasts,” a look at how Hitler brought war to America, with Kevin Matthews, who teaches courses on World War II as […]

Cocktail of the Month: ‘I Shall Return’ to The MacArthur
• May 4, 2023

Drinking rum conjures up images of Caribbean islands, private yachts, jerk chicken, calypso music and treasure chests. But what about live crucifixions, eating fertilized duck eggs, tricycles for public transportation […]

Veterans Day: Not To Be Taken Lightly
• November 10, 2022

Veterans Day – a U.S. federal holiday observed each year on November 11 – is designed to honor military veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Following the First World War […]

Profs & Pints: The Hunt for Lost Nazi Uranium
• June 18, 2019

Profs and Pints presents: “The Hunt for Lost Nazi Uranium,” with Timothy Koeth, associate professor, and Miriam Hiebert, postdoctoral researcher in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland. […]

The Sixth of June
• June 6, 2019

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, Operation Overlord, the first day of the grand effort to take back France and Europe from the armies of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.