The DC History Center will be closed July 9-11 due to a high-security event in the area.
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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 reach into all eight wards to preserve and elevate the stories of Washington's diverse people, neighborhoods, and institutions.
In Part I of this blog series, we introduced the gaps analysis, a systematic assessment of the depth and breadth of archival absences within the DC History Center’s collections. We explored why the DC History Center pursued this project and how the gaps analysis came to be, along with its structure, process, and results. Part …
Continue reading “Committing to Repair – The Gaps Analysis Part II”
In Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor’s “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives,” Caswell and Cifor characterize archivists as caregivers ethically bound to record creators, subjects, users, and communities. By orienting towards an ethic of care, those responsible for collections can recontextualize, restructure, and rewrite old ways of operating. Indeed, after …
Continue reading “Reckoning with Archival Silences – The Gaps Analysis Part I”
The DC History Center is pleased to announce that DC historian Sarah Shoenfeld will serve as Editor of the forthcoming issue of Washington History on Home Rule and Statehood to be published this fall. Sarah’s full biography is provided below. Editor Pat Scallen and Managing Editor Kasey Sease are stepping down at this time. We …
Continue reading “Announcing Editor for Home Rule Special Issue”
Take a behind-the-scenes look at this LGBTQ+ collections initiative at the DC History Center with the U.S. Naval Academy and Rainbow History Project. This June, three interns from the U.S. Naval Academy are spending their days cataloging LGBTQ+ collections, including posters reading “No Glove, No Love” and “Someone in Your Life Is Gay.” On Tuesday, June 18, they’re coming to you live from the stacks at the DC History Center to share a few of their favorite items from the collection! Continue your introverted pride...
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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.