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DC Archives Foundation

@dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social
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Providing philanthropic and advocacy support to the District of Columbia’s historical and permanently valuable records.

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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Happy 40th Anniversary to the DC Archives!!
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🎂
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
In a year of many difficult budget decisions, we are grateful to the DC Council for keeping funding for the new DC State Archives building at UDC in the capital budget, and including additional funds to improve Naylor Court. These projects preserve important DC and federal history!
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
To everyone who wrote a one line email, testified, or just bothered your councilmember at Safeway, this is your victory. The new archive will open later than we hoped, but the funding for the current building will make DC's most valuable historic resource available like never before—and soon. 🗃️
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Kim Bender @kimpbender.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Celebrating a win for DC this morning!
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We are very grateful to @chmnmendelson.bsky.social and the entire DC Council for FULLY FUNDING the new State Archives building at UDC and providing additional funds for repairs to make Naylor Court more available to the public until the new building is complete.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
When we do calls to action for the DC Archives, we get requests for letter templates. But every staffer and CM I've talked to hates form letters. They will note the topline and move on, never reading any customizations you make. A single line with the core of your thoughts is always better.
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jonetta @jonetta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Mayor Bowser’s defunding of a new DC Archives ignores the proverb “Until the lion has his own historian, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” thedcline.org/2025/06/20/j...
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jonetta rose barras: Ignoring the importance of history and neglecting quality education in DC
Sometimes two or more things may seem quite different at first look — and yet they are actually similar at their core or derived from the same kind of thinking. Juxtapose, for example, President Donal...
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Now that’s a metaphor
One high-level UDC administrator, who requested anonymity to speak freely during an extended phone interview, characterized Edington as “the guy with the broom behind the elephants in the parade.”

“Every new president that comes to the university with ideas quickly becomes consumed by a crisis caused by some dysfunctional decision made in the [John A. Wilson Building],” added the administrator.
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"...DC needs a new, modern archives that captures, preserves and shares its powerful story, told through its government, local leaders and ordinary citizens. It needs a place where researchers and residents can go to learn about their city and themselves..." thedcline.org/2025/06/20/j...
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jonetta rose barras: Ignoring the importance of history and neglecting quality education in DC
Sometimes two or more things may seem quite different at first look — and yet they are actually similar at their core or derived from the same kind of thinking. Juxtapose, for example, President Donal...
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
⬇️!!
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The text of our testimony from the budget oversight hearings is now up on our website. The budget process goes until August, so there is still plenty of time for you to submit your thoughts to DC Council and the Mayor! www.dcarchivesfoundation.org/learn
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Learn — DC Archives Foundation
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Upset about the proposed cancellation of the DC Archives but live in Montana or have a day job? You can still help! 🗃️ Send a single word email to Mayor Bowser's chief of staff. Don't overthink it. Just say you want it completed as planned. Be nice. Curse. Whatever. 👀 lindsey.parker@dc.gov 👀
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DC Council Hearings Management System
View Hearings, Register to Witness, Submit Testimony
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Student housing should not be pitted against the city's historic resources in a year that 1/2 a billion dollars is going to a stadium.
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We've added a statement to our website and added ways to help save the DC State Archives building project: www.dcarchivesfoundation.org/statement-ab...
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Statement on Mayor's Budget — DC Archives Foundation
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"The mayor's budget director, Jenny Reed, told reporters on Tuesday that no school, library or recreation center project was delayed or cut in funding." Instead, they cut the DC State Archives building that would support history and culture production in the District. www.axios.com/local/washin...
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How D.C. found $1.1 billion to redevelop RFK Stadium
Mayor Bowser's new budget gives new details on RFK Stadium funding.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
More D.C. budget tidbits: @mayorbowser.bsky.social is proposing a big change for what was supposed to be a new D.C. Archives facility located at the UDC campus in Van Ness. She instead wants that site used for student housing, and the archives housed in the existing Charles Sumner School.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Mayor of Washington, DC wants to cancel its badly needed state archives after ten years and millions of dollars of work. Why? Seemingly to subsidize the billionaire-backed stadium she has been working on with Donald Trump. Send a note to eom@dc.gov if you want to help. 🗃️
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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
DC history folk and allies, please read 🧵👇 and be prepared to advocate AGAINST the mayor's proposal to undo the work of those who have been planning so long for a new home for the DC Archives.
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mayor Bowser’s proposed 2026 budget completely eliminates the new DC State Archives building at UDC. This last minute, irresponsible decision, which was made in secret without any input from experts or the community, erases a decade of grueling work.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you think you have genealogical records in the DC Archives, the good news is that it has become much easier to do in the last two years. Here's how to start:
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Geneaology Records in the DC Archives
YouTube video by DC State Archives
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Kim Bender @kimpbender.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Think of all the wonderful ways the DC Archives can support UDC in these goals once its new building on campus is complete!
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DC Archives Foundation @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The DC Archives are your city's history! Researching your family's DC genealogy? Want regular construction updates about the new state-of-the-art state archives building? Want to help support digital access to the DC Archives? Join our e-mail list today! www.dcarchivesfoundation.org
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