DC History Center
801 K Street Northwest
Washington, DC
Thursday-Friday, 12pm-7pm
Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm
Founded in 1894, the DC History Center deepens understanding of our city's past to connect, empower, and inspire. As the only community-based nonprofit focused on the District’s history, our vision is to engage with neighborhoods across DC and elevate the stories of Washington’s diverse people, communities, and institutions.
To help its community digitize important memories and histories, the DC History Center is now offering scanning appointments through the Kiplinger Research Library. This new service is a continuation of the work we began last year through the HumanitiesDC grant-funded Claves del Pasado community archiving project. As we expand the parameters of who and what is …
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We are pleased to introduce our newest trustees, Austin Graff and Shilpi Malinowski, who are supporting the organization’s growth in the new year and beyond. Please join us in welcoming them to the DC History Center! Austin Graff is a social media consultant, writer, travel guide, and founder of Curiosity & Connection, a social …
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CALLING ALL LOCAL ORAL HISTORIANS: HumanitiesDC and the DC History Center offer an oral history meetup in Washington, DC! Join us at the DC History Center on Monday, February 24 at 6 pm to be in community with other oral historians. During the meetup we'll share ideas, talk through challenges and obstacles, and celebrate successes. This meetup, we'll hear from recent DCOHC grantees about their completed projects. This meetup might be for you, if you: attended the last oral history meetup conducted an oral history interview in the past want to...
As a private, nonprofit organization, the DC History Center relies on generous gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations to support our mission. In times of upheaval and uncertainty, we rely on history to guide us.
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At the DC History Center, we tell the diverse stories of our nation’s capital to a broad community of learners. We seek to bring people together to satisfy their curiosity, learn each other’s stories, and develop respect for the larger community in which we live.