However, a new, interactive map is helping highlight many of those lesser-known sites. Several years in the making, the project—Black History Sites: Washington, DC—comes from DC’s Office of Planning, ...

Living in Washington, D.C., history is all around us ... I know this because I looked them up on HistoryQuest DC, an interactive GIS map of the District’s 127,000 extant buildings. It’s a project of D ...

Once you’ve hit all the museums and the monuments and memorials that peak your interest, there are still a seemingly endless array of other things for history buffs to do in DC, which is brimming ...

The October 1967 protests at the Mall and the Pentagon were "the most dramatic sign of waning U.S. support for President Lyndon Johnson’s war in Vietnam," according to History.com. March on ...

One of the projects of this group is the DC Punk Archive, which aims to maintain the history of D.C.’s punk and local music scene from the ’70s to the present day. This evening, I was there for one of ...

“It has a lot of original, traditional details of a townhome in historical Washington, DC,” says Margolis. “We appreciate all the historic homes" in the area, says Margolis, who lives in the ...

Sixty years ago, thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to advocate for the civil ... 1963 when he decided to help organize the historic March on Washington, told ABC News.