Oct 30 2025

Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Award-winning author Mark K. Updegrove offers incisive, compelling sketches of seven modern presidents and the character trait that made each suited to his moment in the Oval Office. A book sale and signing will follow the event.  
Oct 29 2025

Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Award-winning author Mark K. Updegrove offers incisive, compelling sketches of seven modern presidents and the character trait that made each suited to his moment in the Oval Office. A book sale and signing will follow the event. 
Oct 7 2025

50 Years Later, the Legacy of President Ford’s Signature

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
 Nearly fifty years ago, a groundbreaking moment changed the course of history. On October 7, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106, opening enrollment to women at all US service academies.On the 50th anniversary of that signing, Kathleen Kornahrens will tell…
Sep 25 2025

Create Art in Your Community with Kathie Blanding

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Join us for an in-person discussion with an ArtPrize artist who is exhibiting their work at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Kathie Blanding! She will be talking about how she develops and creates her work in a program for all ages. Blanding will go into detail about her…
Sep 25 2025

Emerging Scholars | Forgotten Humanity: The Personal of the Vietnam War - A Preservation of Amerasian Voices through Oral History

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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum are hosting the National Archives & Records Administration's first annual virtual Vietnam War Symposium.This symposium seeks to explore stories of the war not related to…
Sep 24 2025

Emerging Scholars | Forgotten Humanity: The Personal of the Vietnam War - A Tragedy of Great Proportions: My Lai, Peers, and the Human Face of Failed Leadership and Degraded Professionalism at the Late Vietnam Army’s Inflection Point

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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum are hosting the National Archives & Records Administration's first annual virtual Vietnam War Symposium.This symposium seeks to explore stories of the war not related to…
Sep 24 2025

Emerging Scholars | Forgotten Humanity: The Personal of the Vietnam War - Drafting Dissent: Queer Subversion of the GI Underground Press

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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum are hosting the National Archives & Records Administration's first annual virtual Vietnam War Symposium.This symposium seeks to explore stories of the war not related to…
Sep 4 2025

Perspectives on the Greatest Generation with Susan Eisenhower

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
In times of uncertainty each generation can benefit from looking to an earlier one for inspiration and hope. The “Greatest Generation,” a term coined by Tom Brokaw, is one such generation that speaks to our times. They lived and came of age after the First…
Sep 2 2025

Perspectives on the Greatest Generation with Garrett Graff

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
The author of two major oral histories about the turning points of World War II — the D-Day invasion of Europe as well as the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Japan — Graff will discuss the legacy of the Greatest Generation, how World War II changed…
Aug 20 2025

Ford After Five Trivia Night

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Enjoy rounds of themed trivia covering history and pop culture with fun audio and visual clues with Matt Eickhoff of Here's Your Host! The games will be played in teams (up to four members) so come with friends or join a team on the spot.