MUSEUM LEADERSHIP

Museum Chief Curator

Dr. Sarah A. Burgos specializes in American home front scholarship from 1860 to 1970, especially how museum exhibitions craft messages about national identity. She has curated more than twenty public exhibitions and directed major conservation projects to save priceless historical flags.

Before and After Conservation. One of the last approximately ten remaining national flags from the Mexican American War (1846-1848).

After Conservation National Flag

Before and After Conservation. An expertly hand-embroidered Commonwealth of Virginia flag from 1876.

After Conservation. Commonwealth of Virginia Flag.

Command Historian

Alexander Barnes is a professional military historian with thirty years of experience in the Marine Corps and the Army. Some of his most recent books are Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War and “To Hell with the Kaiser”: America Prepares for War, 1916–1918.