Rodgers House and Belasco Theater
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
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The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia “Lethe” Tanner purchased her freedom with $275 dollars she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
Civil Rights activist and journalist William Monroe Trotter caused a stir in 1914 because he strongly protested President Woodrow Wilson’s su...
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to serve in an executive position on a president’s staff at th...
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...