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Archive-It

Selected archived websites from The People's Archive. Find archived websites that document the culture and history of Washington, D.C. including music, artists, blogs, obituaries, politics, and government.

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DCist Archive

Web archive, captured by The Wayback Machine, of local Washington D.C. online news source, DCist. DCist covered news, politics, arts, culture, and events in Washington, D.C., and is owned by WAMU 88.5.

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Dig DC

Selected digital collections from The People's Archive. Find photos, maps, oral histories, and newspapers documenting the history of Washington D.C.

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Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970

Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

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Evening Star

Research local news and history in the long considered "hometown paper of record" for the nation's capital from 1852-1981. Provided by Newsbank.

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History Commons

African American Newspapers, including Washington, D.C. resources, emphasizing eyewitness accounts of events during the 19th century. Formerly named Accessible Archives.

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HistoryMakers Digital Archive

The nation's largest African American video oral history collection with high-quality primary source content, with fully searchable transcripts, from thousands of people from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

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Newspapers.com

This Newspapers.com portal includes newspapers from Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia from the late 1700s into the 1960s.

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