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DC Community Heritage Project Showcase Film 2012
Project directors of the 2012 DC Community Heritage Project grants were interviewed for this film that was shown at a community showcase event. The interviews are supported with video clips, and photographs from the grant projects.
DC Writers' Homes
This digital history project produced by Kim Roberts and Dan Vera documents the homes and lives of well 100 writers who have lived in Washington, DC. The website allows the entries to be sorted geographically, by genre, by date, and by subject…
What's In A Name?: Profiles of the Trailblazers; History and Heritage of District of Columbia Public and Public Charter Schools (2011 Supplement)
This book expands upon Women of the Dove's effort, begun in 2009, to document the history of Washington, DC's public and public charter schools and their namesakes.
This edition adds 55 new school histories with a heavy focus on public charter…
Anacostia History Ride
The Anacostia Bicyclists' Association organized this history tour to encourage young people to explore the sites of interest within their own neighborhoods. The ABA provides bike safety training, and the tour was meant to give more people a reason to…
40th Anniversary Project Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
This pamphlet, produced in honor of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop's 40th Anniversary, explores the history of the organization through oral history interviews with past and present members.
Click here to view the pamphlet.
Faith & Foundation: 3rd Annual Historic Church Tour of Deanwood (Tour Booklet)
The third edition of this annual tour of Deanwood churches, businesses, and historic locations adds five new church buildings to the booklet, four of which are highlighted in the project's accompanying documentary film.
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Preserving LeDroit Park: An Historic DC Community
This film from producer Ronald Smokey Stevens provides a survey of LeDroit Park from its founding in 1873 through generations of change and demographic shift to the neighborhood's current successes and challenges.
The narration highlights many of…
Shaw Community Heritage John H. Pinkard, Jr. and the Fotocraft Camera Club
This film is comprised primarily of clips from a video oral history with John H. Pinkard, Jr., one of the founders of the FotoCraft Camera Club. The group was founded in 1937, and met at the Anthony Bowen YMCA in Washington, DC.
The film also…
Faith and Foundation 3rd Annual Historic Church Tour of Deanwood Film
This brief film accompanied Deanwood Heights Mainstreets' 3rd Annual Historic Church Tour of Deanwood. The 2011 tour added five new churches to the route, four of which were discussed in the film.
The narration and several of the church leaders…
African-American Pioneer Muslimahs in Washington DC (Part One)
This documentary film uses oral history to examine the lives of African-American Muslim women in Washington, DC primarily during the 1940's and 50's.
The narrators discuss the Muslim faith, black history in the United States, the transition from…
The narrators discuss the Muslim faith, black history in the United States, the transition from…
DC Community Heritage Project Documentary 2009
This documentary, produced by the Humanities Council in 2009, discusses the goals of the DC Community Heritage Project, and encourages participation by showing interviews with some of the filmmakers from the 2009 DCCHP Grant Cycles as well as clips…
DC Community Heritage Project 2010 Showcase Film
This film, produced for the 2010 DCCHP Showcase at Tifereth Israel Congregation in Northwest DC, highlights the grantee projects produced during the cycle. The film is separated into categories focusing on: Landmarks, Neighborhoods, and Culture.…
The National Hand Dance Association - History of DC Hand Dance Archival Project - "The Hand Dance Class Explosion"
These transcripts are from an oral history project related to the National Hand Dance Association documentary film, "Hand Dance: a Capitol Swing." The interviews explore the resurgence of hand dance in the 1990s and the establishment of dance classes…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Overview
This document contains additional information on the history of Hillcrest and the development of the oral history project. It features an interpretive article by the project scholar and a list of narrators. The hard copy version held at the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Lucy and Donald Murray
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Yvette Alexander
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Marvin Bowser
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Kenneth E. Burke, Jr. and Alice Yvonne Burke
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Gloria and Dennis Logan
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Franklin G. Singer III
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Karen Williams
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview with Carrie L. Thornhill
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview with Miles Spencer Steele III
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview with Doris A.M. Thomas
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
Fairlawn: From the Flats to the Heights
Fairlawn is one of the many close-knit communities East of the Anacostia River with a strong sense of history and heritage. The book uses archival and oral history sources to provide a brief sketch of the neighborhood's history and culture. A portion…