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Gichner Iron Works
This past February, I started digging into the history of Maryland iron furnaces, a quest that has led us into… (Read more)
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This past February, I started digging into the history of Maryland iron furnaces, a quest that has led us into… (Read more)
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Congress Food Market at 5th and East Capital Streets, NE, was owned by the Gimble family, one of many small… (Read more)
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Comet Liquor was opened by Oscar Gildenhorn at 18th And Columbia Rd, NW in 1940 and became an institution in… (Read more)
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If you’ve checked your email lately, and if you’ve ever given money to a political party or a candidate, you’ve… (Read more)
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Milton Kronheim grew up in DC in the neighborhood around L and 4 ½ St. SW. He came from a… (Read more)
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Take the 8 Day Sukkot Challenge! Sukkot simultaneously commemorates the forty years that the Jewish people wandered the desert and… (Read more)
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Join us at the Capital Jewish Food Festival for Michael Twitty’s analysis of the origin of a recipe drawn from… (Read more)
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My first abortion clinic escort job was in Madison, Wisconsin, where I grew up—my best friend’s mom was an abortion… (Read more)
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To mark the 170th anniversary of the founding of Washington’s first Jewish congregation, Washington Hebrew Congregation, their archivist wrote about… (Read more)
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It’s probably not true that all museum curators think about sex all the time (at least not at work). However,… (Read more)