DC History Minute

Take a moment to learn about D.C. history by exploring the lives and places that tell Washington's story.

  Learn about the home of Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to
  serve a full term in the Senate.
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  Charles Curtis was the highest ranking Native American political figure this
  nation has ever produced.
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  Holy Rosary Church is a tangible and potent symbol of the many contributions
  Italian Americans have made to our Nation's Capital
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  Colorado Building
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  What downtown D.C. hotel housed Congress in 1814 after the British
  burned the Capitol?
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  See Unity Park in Adams Morgan then and now!
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  The Islamic Center of Washington was dedicated on June 28, 1957
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  500 I Street, NW. Currently the Chinese Community Church, historians have
  only recently discovered who the architect was!
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  1461 S Street, NW, home of Georgia Douglas Johnson, local Harlem
  Renaissance-era poet and author
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  Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Journalist, Abolitionist, Educator
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  Carter G. Woodson: Father of Negro History
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