Dig DC is your web portal for selected digitized and born-digital items from DC Public Library Special Collections, including the Washingtoniana collections and the Black Studies Center at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, D.C. and the Peabody Room at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library.
The Kiplinger Collection consists of 4,000 rare maps, prints, photographs and paintings of Washington. With the earliest pieces dating from the late 17th Century, The Kiplinger Collections is an important visual resource documenting the history of the capital city and its evolving cityscape.
The DC Public Library offers historical newspaper databases that include the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Blade, the Washington Post, the Washington Star, and other regional newspapers.
Below is a short list of journals that cover the history and DC history. If there is an article you are interested in that is not freely available through UDC library resources, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. If you have questions on how to do this, contact a librarian.
