1900 Photo of Western High School (Duke Ellington School of the Arts)

Happy New Year! I hope 2014 is a great year for you and all GoDCers … while you recover from whatever you did last night,

Check this old photo out. It was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston around the turn of the 20th century. Source: Library of Congress

Okay GoDCers, here’s a challenge for you. Ken sent this in a while back and wanted some assistance on dating this photo. He’s guessing sometime

In 1982, the United States Post Office launched a new system dubbed E-COM (Electronic Computer-Originated Mail) as an attempt to adopt the nascent technology of

Take a look at the Google Street View of King Street in Leesburg today, at the intersection with Market Street. And below we have the

This is a guest post by John (from The Lion of Anacostia), cross-posted here. For black newspaper boys holding their street corners throughout downtown Washington, on Thursday January 13,

This is a photo I came across on Shorpy. It’s of three children, who happen to be the offspring of James J. Davis, the Secretary

Do you know why it's named Constitution Avenue? There's an interesting story behind it which includes the state of Wisconsin.

Here’s a rare one. You’re looking at then-governor Clinton of Arkansas, and Georgetown graduate, delivering the commencement speech at Georgetown for the graduating class of

So here is a headline you certainly won’t see every day, and you certainly wouldn’t see something like this in the 1980s. In the Cold

Charles Lindbergh was celebrated with a huge parade in Washington, D.C. upon returning from his historic 1927 transatlantic flight.

Here is a great series of three photographs from 1902. It depicts a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic going down Pennsylvania Avenue.