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Date(s) - 11/09/2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University

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Code Girls of Arlington Hall: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

 With author Liza Mundy

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:00 pm

Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University Main Campus

While their brothers, boyfriends, and husbands took up arms, these women went to the nation’s capital with sharpened pencils–and even sharper minds–taking on highly demanding Top Secret work, involving complex math and linguistics. Running early computers and poring over reams of encrypted enemy messages, they worked tirelessly in makeshift buildings in Arlington and Washington, DC, from 1942 to 1945. Through extensive research and interviews conducted with code girls, Mundy hones in on the lives and labors of several exemplary code-breakers while weaving their stories among the larger events of the war and the daily activities of the codebreakers.

Ordered by military officials never to reveal their war work, these women and their accomplishments were all but written out of history until Mundy discovered a cache of recently declassified documents at the archives of the NSA. Mundy brings to life this riveting story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

This program is free and open to the public. It is part of a monthly series of public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and Marymount University’s Department of History and Politics. For more information, please visit www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org, Email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org or call: 703-892-4204

DRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. Then turn left and park in the garage at the bottom of the incline. Handicapped parking is available at this 26th Street entrance immediately upon entry at the library.  For complete directions to the Main Campus of Marymount University (2807 N. Glebe Road) go to http://www.marymount.edu/Home/Contact-us/Locate-us

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: A free Marymount Shuttle bus is available from the Ballston-MU Metro Station (Orange and Silver lines). The University is also accessible via Metro bus routes 23A and 23T; exit at the N. Glebe Road and Old Dominion Drive stop.