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Landmark Lecture: Inclusivity and Interpreting Enslaved Individuals at Tudor Place
• February 9, 2023
Join Tudor Place Curator Robert DeHart along with Archivist Haley Wilkinson who will share recent research that has prompted a more equitable and inclusive interpretation in tours, events and programs […]
Landmark Lecture: Identity, Trauma & Reconciliation: A Conversation with Descendants
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Documentary filmmaker and founder of History Before Us, Frederick Murphy, hosts a conversation with descendants of enslaved individuals associated with Tudor Place and other historic sites with a history of […]
Landmark Lecture: Laborious Histories: Critical Fabulation & the Practice of Black Public History
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Dr. Crystal Moten, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Obama Foundation in Chicago, will discuss her work focusing on the intersection of race, class and gender to uncover the […]
Profs & Pints DC: The Fight Against Slavery in Washington
• June 27, 2022
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Fight Against Slavery in Washington,” with Adam Rothman, professor of History and American Studies at Georgetown University and principal curator of the Georgetown Slavery […]
Harlem Renaissance in DC Walking Tour
• May 17, 2022
Tour runs approximately 2.5 hours. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for children. This tour will take you on a winding journey through an era in which the U Street […]
Mapping Georgetown: From Hat-Checking to House Detectives
• March 31, 2022
Here at the Mapping Georgetown project, we collect stories. And this one from Michelle Pilliod caught our eye! “I was a hat check person at Whisky A-Go-Go,” Pilliod began… Then […]
Mapping Georgetown: Six Generations of Local Family History
• January 18, 2022
As a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and our local Black history, Mapping Georgetown is pleased to share this particular Georgetown mapping story from Neville […]
