The Capitol Hill Restoration Society will present their annual Home & Garden Tour on Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12th. While this sought-after event is happening, Hill Center’s building will serve as a will-call station, be open for the public to come and view our gallery spaces, and will host two FREE tours with…
The Capitol Hill Restoration Society will present their annual Home & Garden Tour on Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12th. While this sought-after event is happening, Hill Center’s building will serve as a will-call station, be open for the public to come and view our gallery spaces, and will host two FREE tours with…
Thomas Smallwood has been a “lost” hero of the U.S. abolition movement for over 100 years. Born into slavery in 1801, Smallwood bought his freedom, educated himself and became a shoemaker living near the Navy Yard. Then in 1842, Smallwood along with a young white partner began organizing escapes from slavery for wagonloads of people. Adding…
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Shores of Tripoli,” on a famous early overseas test of the U.S. Navy, with Abby Mullen, assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and author of the upcoming book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805. You may know the Marine Hymn’s opening…
This event is part of Hill Center’s annual Benjamin Drummond series of cultural and scholarly programming. Historian Sarah Jane Shoenfeld, co-director of the public history project Mapping Segregation in Washington…
Profs and Pints DC presents: “America's Illiberal History,” an unflinching look at the trampling of individual rights as a driving force in our nation’s past, with Steven Hahn, professor of history at New…
Established in 2013, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore…
“My work with Alan Hantman came at a pivotal point in the management of the United States Capitol. The murders of two Capitol Police Officers...in 1998 changed the freedom of movement in…
Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City, the only daughter of Dominican immigrants. Her poetry is infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit. She…