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Connect with history using all of your senses and set your own feet in some of America's most significant sites. Our upcoming Study Tours cross battlefields, sanctuaries, railways, and more!
Featured Event: Savor a day with the Crawleys and their staff before every Anglophile’s favorite series begins its final season. The bywords are elegance and style in the Virginia Historical Society’s exhibit Dressing Downton: Changing Fashions for Changing Times, then examine the vanished era of the grand country estate in the Living Downton tour at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Take your place for a British-inspired lunch in a suitably grand setting, too. Buy tickets>>
New Event: Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, is filled with a refined historic charm reflected in its grand colonial architecture and cobblestone streets. But it was also the city where brewing first began in the Washington, D.C., area when Scottish immigrant Andrew Wales set up shop in 1770.
Join author and beer historian Garrett Peck on a charming walk through Old Town’s alleyways, archaeological finds, ice wells, warehouses, and waterfront as you explore the sudsy beverage’s local history and its renaissance.
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Chestnut Hill: 18th-Century New England in Potomac
Morning & Afternoon Tour
Fri., Oct. 16 at 10 AM - LIMITED AVAILABILITY!
Fri., Oct. 16 at 1:30 PM
Step inside a home whose core is a transplanted 1790 Connecticut farmhouse and learn from owner Jim Hobbins how his passion for history guided the creation a residence that combines the best of the past and present. Buy tickets>> |
Amish Traditions in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
All-Day Tour - SOLD OUT!
Sat., Oct. 17 at 7:15 AM
They’re often referred to as the “plain people” because of the austere simplicity of their lives, but the Amish have developed a distinctive American culture that is rich, vital, and diverse. Spend a fall day visiting the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area and gain insights into Amish life and traditions. Learn more>> |
The Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War: A Closer Look
Overnight Tour - LIMITED AVAILABILITY!
Sat., Oct. 17 at 7:30 AM
Virginia’s autumn landscape provides the perfect backdrop as historian Gregg Clemmer and special guest Ed Bearss look beyond Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign to lead an exploration of some of the less-familiar places in the valley that saw significant battles in 1863 and 1864.
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A Spectacular Day at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
All-Day Tour - SOLD OUT!
Fri., Oct. 23 at 7:30 AM
Spend a day at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world’s first refuge for birds of prey and an international center for raptor conservation, for a chance to see eagles, falcons, hawks, and osprey soaring high over a mountaintop preserve aglow with fall foliage. Learn More>> |
Caverns and Cabernets:
A Fall Day in the Shenandoah Valley
All-Day Tour - SOLD OUT!
Sat., Oct. 31 at 7:30 AM
Go deep into Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley on an excursion into the region’s ancient past. Visit Skyline Caverns in Front Royal, Cave Ridge Cellars in Mount Jackson, a family-owned winery, and end the day at Endless Caverns in New Market. Learn More>> |
A Frank Lloyd Wright House in Maryland
Early Afternoon & Mid-Afternoon Tour - SOLD OUT!
Sat., Nov. 7 at 12:45 PM
Sat., Nov. 7 at 2:15 PM
Join Thomas Llewellyn Wright as he opens the Usonian-style house completed in 1956 by his grandfather—the last Wright-designed residence still in family hands. Learn More>> |
Mosaics: Beauty in D.C.’s Public Spaces
All-Day Tour - LIMITED AVAILABILITY!
Wed., Nov. 11 at 9 AM
Join mosaic artist Bonnie Fitzgerald for an inside look at a wide variety of contemporary mosaic treasures at notable public sites, including works by Marc Chagall and Washington’s Sam Gilliam. (World Art History Certificate elective) Buy tickets>> |
The World of Downton Abbey in Richmond
All-Day Tour - FEATURED EVENT!
Fri., Nov. 26 at 8 AM
Savor a day with the Crawleys and their staff before every Anglophile’s favorite series begins its final season. The bywords are elegance and style in the Virginia Historical Society’s exhibit Dressing Downton: Changing Fashions for Changing Times, then examine the vanished era of the grand country estate in the Living Downton tour at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Take your place for a British-inspired lunch in a suitably grand setting, too. Buy tickets>> |
Holidays at Winterthur and Longwood Gardens
All-Day Tour - NEW!
Fri., Dec. 4 at 8 AM
Sat., Dec. 12 at 8 AM
At Winterthur this year, the traditional colors of the season are enhanced by the rich jewel tones of Tiffany glass. A pair of exhibitions spotlights the captivating works of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the company that bears his family name, and they’re among the highlights of a day spent at two destinations that will kick off your own holidays in grand style. (World Art History Certificate elective) Buy tickets>> |
Alexandria: Where DC’s Breweries Began
Walking Tour - NEW!
Sat., Dec. 5 at 10 AM
Sun., Dec. 13 at 1:30 PM
Fri., Dec. 18 at 3 PM
Join Garrett Peck, author of Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C, on a walk through Old Town’s alleyways, archaeological finds, ice wells, warehouses, and waterfront as you explore the beverage’s local heritage and its renaissance. Buy Tickets>> |
The B&O Railroad Museum:
Birthplace of American Railroading
All-Day Tour - NEW!
Sat., Jan. 16 at 8:45 AM
The Baltimore and Ohio, the nation’s first commercial long-distance railroad, began its journey into legend in 1828. Join rail historian Joe Nevis on an insiders’ visit to the museum that includes the oldest continually operating railroad shops in the world. Buy Tickets>> |
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