DAR Museum

Welcome to the magnificent headquarters of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. While our previous tour focused intimately on the museum galleries and the material culture of the revolutionary era, this…

Stepping inside the historic complex, our first stop is to examine the foundational artifacts of the DAR itself. Before this massive campus of marble and limestone existed, the organization began as a fiercely determined, but…

As we move further into the administrative history of the headquarters, we encounter objects that firmly connect the DAR to the broader sweep of twentieth-century global events. The National Society did not merely exist in a…

To fully appreciate the documents housed within the DAR, we must take a brief, scholarly detour into the intellectual history of archival science itself. The practice of collecting and preserving records in the United States is…

We now arrive at the operational core of the organization's institutional memory: The Department of Archives and History. Although the official archives originally shared cramped space with the manuscript collection for many…

To truly grasp the significance of the DAR headquarters, we must pause to consider the deeply sensory and intellectual experience of engaging in primary archival research within these walls. Let us imagine, for a moment, that you…

As our exploration of the DAR Headquarters and its profound archival collections concludes, let us take a moment to absorb the sheer magnitude of what has been accomplished here. We have walked through the shadows of the…