MARCH 12, 2024
The DC History Conference Celebrates 50 Years By Honoring the City’s History and the Communities That Shaped the Past Half Century

MARCH 14, 2023
DC History Conference to Dive Deep Into District’s Past, Including Disenfranchisement and Statehood

OCTOBER 28, 2022
DC History Center Announces Project at the Randall School

MARCH 7, 2022
Registration for DC History Conference Now Open

NOVEMBER 11, 2020
White Men’s Roads Thru Black Men’s Homes:  Reflecting on DC’s Freeway Fight Context for Today Conversation with Samuel Jordan and Martin Austermuhle

AUGUST 10, 2020
These Streets: Comparing the Uprisings of 1968 and Today, Context for Today Conversation with Kyla Sommers and Tony Gittens

JUNE 27, 2020
Is Statehood Possible? Context for Today Conversation with Derek Musgrove and Bob Levey

JUNE 18, 2020
Historian Eric Yellin Talks with Curator Samir Meghelli About Segregation in the Federal Workforce: Latest Conversation in Historical Society’s “Context for Today” Series

JUNE 10, 2020
Best-Selling Authors Asch and Musgrove to Launch New Historical Society Conversation Series

APRIL 14, 2020
IN REAL TIME Initiative Invites Public to Collect COVID-19 History

MARCH 13, 2020
Coronavirus Announcement

MARCH 9, 2020
Historical Society Names Laura Brower Hagood Executive Director

MAY 1, 2019
Historical Society Announces New DC History Center: New Venue Will Open in the Restored Carnegie Library

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