Evidently, in the first half of the 20th century, Franklin Park was the place to go air your grievances with whatever entity was keeping you down (i.e., The Man). It was to the point in the early 1950s that it was a nuisance to the neighboring businesses, hotels, and offices. Source: Library of Congress In […]

Here’s a fascinating article from the Washington Times, printed on April 22nd, 1916. For those of you unfamiliar with The Birth of a Nation, it’s a crazy racist film which was banned in a number of American cities, sparked large protests, and was partially credited with the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the […]

Here is a photo of the new Copley Hall in 1931. Source: Georgetown University Library