Happy Birthday to William Seward - his role in securing the Alaska Treaty in 1867 was, to him, his greatest accomplishment, but felt that it would take a while for the rest of the country to feel the same. #DCHistory https://t.co/3YXJ1y9riK Happy Birthday to William Seward -…
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Today in History - May 16 https://t.co/CFkMHgcd1u On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors," as he was charged under the eleventh article of impeachm…
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Quote of the Day: "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words." - Josh Billings
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In 1933, as the nation lingered in the depths of the Great Depression, Eleanor Roosevelt came to meet the thousands of World War I veterans camped in Washington to demand immediate payment of their military pensions. #DCHistory #VAHistory https://t.co/wGnLFTDs3v In 1933, as …
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Can you imagine the world’s most powerful clandestine intelligence agency spread out across a series of ramshackle offices in and around Washington, DC? Well, that’s what constituted the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953. #DCHistory #VAHistory https://t.co/31d7Uz112I Can y…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) May 15, 2022
Early 1900s postcard of Caldwell Hall, the first major building at Catholic University in Brookland, DC. Completed in 1889, it was designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin (1837-1916). In the distance is Holy Cross College, completed in 1899 and designed by Lemuel Norris (1848-19…
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https://t.co/jFda3jKD0o https://t.co/jFda3jKD0o — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) May 15, 2022
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