“The President’s Walk” Was Almost Reagan’s Last
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng
The Washington Hilton Hotel is located at 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW, near DuPont Circle. At a...
The Women’s Suffrage Parade of 1913
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng.
March 3, 2013, was an important day in women’s history, yet it went virtually unnoticed in...
The Little Green House on K Street
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng
At a first glance, there is nothing monumental about 1625 K Street NW. A bland building...
The Knickerbocker Theatre Tragedy
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng
Winter storms like hurricanes are regularly named every year. This naming practice, however, was not always...
The Little House in DC Plays Unique Role in Girl Scout History
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng
I was a Girl Scout when I was a kid. Unlike a lot of girls I...
D.C.’s Connection With the Titanic
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng.
New York has significant ties to Titanic. Many of Gotham’s elite members of society died in...
Lincoln Conspirator’s Home Now Wok and Roll Restaurant
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng.
I’ve been to D.C.’s Chinatown a number of times. I even remember passing the Wok and...
Engravings of President’s House and Capitol After Burning of Washington
Below are two amazing engravings of the President's House and the Capitol Building following the Burning of Washington on August 24, 1814. The engravings...
A Call to Arms After the Burning of Washington
We found a couple of fascinating pages out of two newspapers from the days following the Burning of Washington. Both papers, The Columbian -...
British Troops Regret Burning Washington; Madison’s Cabinet Slow to React
We're coming up on the 200th anniversary of the Burning of Washington. On the 100th anniversary, the Washington Times wrote a long retrospect on...
The Greatest Commencement Addresses in Washington, DC, Ever
It's that time of year, again. Commencement speakers address graduating college and university classes, and inevitably their speeches are ranked, assessed, complimented, and criticized. This...
Playbill from Ford’s Theatre on the Night of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater began with a showing of Our American Cousin, and ended with an assassinated President Lincoln. The Library of...
The Time Walter Johnson Pitched 18 Innings in One Game!
Walter Johnson is one of the greatest pitchers of all time, and on May 15, 1918, he delivered a performance that stood out from...
Sketches of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
The Library of Congress has a large collection of graphic arts created over the course of two centuries. They depict famous locations and subjects....
