From H-Maryland:
The theme for the 40th Annual Conference is “Marching on Washington,”
covering a diverse range of anniversaries: the 1963 Civil Rights March on
Washington, 1973 initiation of modern Home Rule, the centennial of the 1913
Woman Suffrage Procession, and the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation
Proclamation. Conference themes are not exclusive; the presentation of all
new historical research about D.C. is welcome. Past presentations have
considered art, archaeology, architecture, biography, D.C. governance,
demography, geography, law, military, music, neighborhoods, race relations,
schools, as well as oral history techniques and archival collection reviews.
The conference opens with the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Lecture and
reception, honoring the memory of this pioneering scholar of African
American history. Kate Masur, an associate professor of history at
Northwestern University and author of An Example for All the Land:
Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C., is the
speaker.
You are also invited to take part in the Friday lunch-hour History Network,
a forum where history-related organizations and vendors display materials
explaining their activities and services.
For a flavor of past conferences, see the following programs from previous
years; click:
http://www.historydc.org/conference/archives.aspx