DC had a split drinking age for years: 18 for beer and wine, 21 for spirits. It made Georgetown a magnet for underage drinkers from Maryland and Virginia. It took a fatal crash on the Capital Beltway in September 1986 to finally change it.
A 1947 photograph captures Kennedy and Nixon as young House colleagues, fourteen years before they faced each other in the presidential race.
In 1970, Congress debated a proposal that would have handed most of Washington DC back to Maryland. Here is what that plan looked like and why it never happened.
Providence Hospital opened on Capitol Hill in 1861. It took First Manassas wounded a month later. The site is now Providence Park.
Georgia Avenue was not always called Georgia Avenue. It was 7th Street NW until senators from Georgia and Wisconsin fought over L’Enfant’s city plan.
A Library of Congress photograph showing the counting of electoral votes for the 1916 Presidential Election between Woodrow Wilson and Charles Hughes.
Explore the changing meaning of “Bringing Home the Bacon” in Washington, DC. Learn how pork got a bad rap in terms of money and a good one in terms of culinary cachet. Read about Mendel Rivers, John Stennis, and The Pig restaurant in this article.
Take a journey to the past with this exploration of the historic U.S. Senate Subway in 1915. See the high-resolution version of the photo and share it with your Capitol Hill friends!
Old Ebbitt Grill opened in 1856 as a boarding house and became Washington’s first saloon. McKinley lived upstairs.
