Tag: Howard University

Check this out. Here's a map of something that didn't happen. Howard University proposed extending Vermont Ave. from Florida Ave. to Georgia Ave. back...

Well, you might not know this, but there really was a Mr. LeDroit ... sort of. LeDroit Park was established as one of the first...

Check out this cool photo of Howard University's football team in 1904. GoDCer Andy sent this in after checking out this cool post about...

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...

Check out this great old advertisement that we dug up in The Washington Times from September 7th, 1919. Source: Library of Congress

Here's a cool photo that we found on Tumblr. This is Howard University's Women's Athletic Day in 1949. Source: Vintage Black Beauties

Here are two great old photos of Howard University's Old Main Building.

The site of so many wonderful baseball and football memories, Griffith Stadium, had its life ended by the brutal swings of a wrecking ball...

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 guest post by John (from The Lion of Anacostia), cross-posted here. Forget what you’ve heard, or rather haven’t heard or yet read. Frederick Douglass was a Howard Universityman through...

This is a guest post by John (from The Lion of Anacostia), cross-posted here. Frederick Douglass was a self-made man about town during his years in Washington. He was...

Here's a photograph from 1890 which shows Dr. Daniel H. Riggs of Howard University posing next to his carriage near the Smithsonian. In 1893, the...

I think you'll agree that this is some serious history, frozen in time. Both former baseball star Jackie Robinson and civil rights leader Martin Luther...

The street names don't always make sense in Columbia Heights, nor do they truly conform to the grid system of Old City (ie, below...