Located right off the National Mall, the jail lent institutional support to slavery throughout the South

Before the National Archives Museum dominated the block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 9th and 7th streets, it was home to one of the largest marketplaces in the country.

The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), the General Services Administration (GSA), the National Park Service (NPS), and the District of Columbia Government formed an Executive Committee and l...

Gage told attendees her Hoover biography traces how the FBI director shaped Washington across five decades and said new records justify a future Ronald Reagan biography; she also discussed teaching and archival work at Yale.

Speakers noted Mary Todd Lincoln's conspicuous spending amid the Civil War, her fraught public image and her relationship with seamstress Elizabeth Keckley, whose memoir shaped later perceptions.

At the Society for History in the Federal Government awards ceremony, winners included the NACA History Office (Excellence in New Media), Andrew Preston (Book Prize), Doctor Colin Williams (Article Award), and the National Museum of the United States Army (Historic Preservation and Exhibitions).

Acting Principal Deputy Librarian Robin Dale announced that donor John Cole is funding a five-year initiative at the Library of Congress to appoint a historian and an archivist to process and preserve the Library's archives.

The “Williams Slave Pen” disgracefully existed from 1836 through 1850 as a prison for enslaved people awaiting transport to the American South.

6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW At the corner of 6th and Pennsylvania stood the Epicurean Eating House, a popular restaurant owned and operated by an African American, Beverly Snow.  In 1835, S...