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Music History
Had the Library of Congress not convinced Woody Guthrie to come to D.C. in 1940, we might never have had the folk revival of the 1960s.
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Music History
How a ragtag group of cinema musicians started DC's transformation into a culture capital.
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Holy Warriors
The story of the D.C. 9: the Catholics who became convicts in order to stop the war in Vietnam.
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Theater History
After the 1968 riots ravaged U Street, the famed Lincoln Theatre fell into disrepair until a '90s restoration project allowed its curtain to rise again.
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Tractorcade 1979
In February 1979, thousands of farmers came to Washington on tractors to demonstrate for agriculture policy reform. They snarled traffic for weeks but then came to the rescue when an unexpected blizzard buried the city under two feet of snow.