Eisenhower National Historic Site

Park staff will provide Eisenhower home tours on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for the 2025 season. Home tours will be offered at 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm.

• Home tours are first come, first served. Due to limited space, they are limited to 40 visitors per tour.
• Visitors are advised to be on-site at least 15 minutes prior to the home tour they would like to attend.
• Visitors should check-in at our visitor contact station on-site and reserve a spot before their home tour program.
• Groups of ten or more should click here for our group reservations page for information on how to arrange a tour outside of public tour hours. Pleae note that group tours are subject to staff availability.

• Programs take place Mondays at 10 am and 1 pm.
• Join a park ranger for this free guided walking tour visiting the grounds of the farm that Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower loved. Explore the fascinating history and stories of the Eisenhower property, from the Civil War to the Cold War. Discover how the Eisenhowers connected with this peaceful landscape.
• This one-hour long program will meet in front of the Eisenhower home. Note: This program does not include a tour of the Eisenhower home.

Join a park ranger for a free, ranger-guided walking tour exploring the grounds of Camp Colt, Gettysburg's World War I tank training camp.

As part of Eisenhower National Historic Site's 2025 World War I Weekend, visitors are invited for this special opportunity to visit the grounds where Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower trained soldiers in 1918 as part of the birth of American tank warfare during World War I. 

This program will meet at the Gettysburg National Cemetery Parking lot, Auto Tour Stop 16 on the Gettysburg National Military Park Auto Tour. 

How did Gettysburg and the Great War shape Dwight Eisenhower and the United States?

Explore this story and more at Eisenhower National Historic Site’s World War I Weekend on July 19 and 20, 2025. The National Park Service will offer special programming related to Dwight Eisenhower, Gettysburg's own Camp Colt, and the American experience in World War I. 

This event will include a small living history contingent, as well as participation from the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command and the Doughboy Foundation.

In addition to special World War I programs, the Eisenhower home will be open for its regularly scheduled house tours. Tours will take place hourly from 10 am through 3 pm. 

Admission to Eisenhower NHS is free. Visitors may drive directly to the site. Please use 250 Eisenhower Farm Rd for GPS or visit here for directions. Visitors should enter the site from Emmitsburg Rd. Please follow signs for on-site parking.

This program takes place at the Beyond the Battle Museum (625 Biglerville Rd., Gettysburg, PA), and is hosted by the Adams County Historical Society, in conjunction with Eisenhower National Historic Site's 2025 World War II Weekend event.

During World War II, as Americans fought around the globe, they brought the game of baseball with them. Soldiers played baseball recreationally, within their units, with major leaguers and amateurs sharing the same diamond. After the war’s end, the game became more organized and leagues were formed. Spectators enjoyed the games as much as the players. It was so popular and important to the war effort that 80 years ago, in September 1945, American soldiers squared off in a GI World Series in France and Germany. This program will also explore the story of Gettysburg College’s own Harry O’Neill, one of two major league baseball players killed in action during World War II. To commemorate this important moment at the end of World War II, join historians Ted Herman and Dan Vermilya for this free program on baseball during World War II.

Join the National Park Service in commemorating the events of 80 years ago for Eisenhower National Historic Site’s 2025 World War II Weekend event. The 2025 event will focus on the year 1945 and the end of World War II.

Eisenhower National Historic Site's annual World War II Weekend is a living history focused event that includes guest speakers, ranger guided tours, family activities, and more. This year's event will bring the stories of 1945 to life through three days of programming and interactive activities for visitors of all ages. 2025 will be the 27th year for this event, taking place the third weekend of September annually.

Note that site grounds are closed on Friday September 19 for set up for World War II Weekend. Event programmin begins that evening off-site.

For more information, visit our World War II Weekend webpage here: World War II Weekend - Eisenhower National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

This program program takes place at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center Theater. 

This program is SOLD OUT.

Join Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Rick Atkinson for a conversation on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s leadership, the craft of writing military history, and the legacy of World War II. This program will cover Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy on the Second World War, as well as his recent work on the American Revolution, including a discussion of Dwight Eisenhower, George Washington, and their shared leadership principles. This program will be followed by a book signing event with Rick Atkinson.

Rick Atkinson is two time Pulitzer Prize winning author, historian and journalist, who has written eight narrative histories about five American wars. His latest book, The Fate of the Day: The War for American, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, is the second volume in a trilogy he is authoring on the American Revolution. Atkinson previously wrote the Liberation Trilogy, a narrative history of the liberation of Europe in World War II. The first volume, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, received the Pulitzer Prize and was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “the best World War II battle narrative since Cornelius Ryan’s classics, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far.” The second volume, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, drew praise from the New York Times as “a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written…and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.” The final volume of the Liberation Trilogy, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, published in May 2013, ranked #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Wall Street Journal called it “a magnificent book,” and the New York Times Book Review described it as “a tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity…The Liberation Trilogy is a monumental achievement.” His other books include The British Are Coming, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade.

Atkinson’s many awards include the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history; the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by District of Columbia police officers. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 1989 John Hancock Award for excellence in business writing, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, the 2013 New York Military Affairs Symposium award for lifetime achievement, and the 2014 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for Military History. In December 2015 he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, previously given to Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, and David McCullough. In 2019 he was named a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow of the Georgia Historical Society.

Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College, where he remains an adjunct faculty member. He is a Presidential Counselor at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, and an inductee in the Academy of Achievement, for which he also serves as a board member. He previously served on the governing commission of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.

Born in Munich, Germany, Atkinson is the son of a U.S. Army officer and grew up on military posts. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from East Carolina University and a master of arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago. He and his wife, Dr. Jane Chestnut Atkinson of Lawrence, Kan., a retired researcher and clinician at the National Institutes of Health, live in the District of Columbia. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.

Join a park ranger for a guided-walking tour of WWII burials in Gettysburg National Cemetery, focusing on stories from the Pacific Theater of World War II. This program meets at the Taneytown Road entrance to the cemetery, Auto Tour stop #16, Gettysburg National Military Park.

Join a park ranger for a guided-walking tour of WWII burials in Gettysburg National Cemetery, focusing on stories from the European Theater of World War II. This program meets at the Taneytown Road entrance to the cemetery, Auto Tour stop #16, Gettysburg National Military Park.

Rachel Thompson: George C. Marshall: Wartime General to Statesman
Discover the pivotal role of George C. Marshall in winning WWII and rebuilding Europe 80 years ago. This program takes place at the Eisenhower NHS Speakers' Tent.

When George Marshall became Secretary of State in 1947, some questioned the choice of a career military man in this role. The answer is that Marshall had treaded the turbulent waters of international diplomacy throughout an entire world war. His collaboration with Dwight Eisenhower in planning of the cross-channel invasion in 1944 was only one part of his delicate and complex negotiations with other formidable leaders whose very survival depended on the outcomes of war, including Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Those experiences uniquely qualified him to take the lead in defining the crucial role the United States would play in post-war recovery through the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. Join Historian Rachel Yarnell Thompson for this fascinating look at the impact of World War II on the statesmanship and leadership of George C. Marshall.

Rachel Yarnell Thompson is the Marshall Historian at The George C. Marshall International Center, located on the site of Marshall’s museum home in Leesburg, Virginia. In 2014, the Center published Ms. Thompson’s full-length biography, Marshall: A Statesman Shaped in the Crucible of War. She lectures extensively on various aspects of Marshall’s illustrious career as soldier and statesman, giving presentations in many venues that have included the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, the United States Embassy in Paris, state conferences for both the Wisconsin and Colorado National Guards, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. In 2009, Thompson curated the Marshall Center’s exhibition, “With Affection and Admiration: The Correspondence of George C. Marshall and Winston S. Churchill.” In conjunction with seminars sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Defense, Ms. Thompson also periodically conducts meetings at the Center linked to Marshall’s mid-twentieth century leadership roles.

Ms. Thompson was for thirty-one years a U.S. History and American Government teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia. A 1962 graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, she holds a master’s degree from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Although a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Ms. Thompson makes her home in Haymarket, Virginia, an outlying suburb of Washington, D.C.