
West End Museum November - December Events & Exhibits
Exhibits Dewey Defeats Truman/The Housing Act of 1949 September 15, 2015 to January 9, 2016 Free and open to the public. With the modern-day 24-hour news cycle, it’s hard to believe that we once relied on daily newspapers to deliver word of current events. But so it was in 1948, when one of the most infamous—and totally inaccurate—headlines of the day broke. A new exhibit at The West End Museum highlights that headline, the post-WWII national housing crisis and the onset of t

West End Museum September Events & Exhibitions
Exhibition: Dewey Defeats Truman/The Housing Act of 1949 September 15, 2015 to January 9, 2016. Free and open to the public With the modern-day 24-hour news cycle, it’s hard to believe that we once relied on daily newspapers to deliver word of current events. But so it was in 1948, when one of the most infamous—and totally inaccurate—headlines of the day broke. A new exhibit at The West End Museum highlights that headline, the post-WWII national housing crisis and the onset o