February 23, 2026
The story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is well known. What’s less known is the role this Chinese restaurant played in the saga. What today is...
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September 30, 2024
Washington DC is known for memorials to great Americans – Abraham Lincoln, Mary McLoud Bethune, Franklin Roosevelt, and Sonny Bono. Yes, Sonny Bono is...
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September 30, 2024
In the off season, I enjoy randomly walking through Arlington National Cemetery. I love the quiet dignity of the honored dead at rest in their final...
Read More: Markers at Arlington National Cemetery: Size Doesn't Matter
April 26, 2024
George Marshall is the most important American you’ve never heard of. He is the model of selfless public service. He’s 5-star army general. Organize...
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March 30, 2024
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in DC in 1899 and grew up in a house which used to stand on what is now Ward Place NW in the West End neighbo...
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February 21, 2024
Outside the British Embassy on Washington’s Embassy Row is Winston Churchill, a statue with a foot in two countries. Churchill’s father was the Duke o...
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February 21, 2024
OK, let’s end this myth once and for all: Washington, DC was never a swamp. Only one percent of today’s city could ever be defined as swamp, and that...
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February 21, 2024
The most unusual memorial to a president in Washington, DC is the one to our 26th chief executive. Theodore Roosevelt gets an entire island to his mem...
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February 21, 2024
Until last month our country had no national memorial commemorating World War I. In 1919 Congress debated constructing such a memorial, but aside from...
Read More: The New World War I Memorial