Mar 7, 2022BlogFunkstown: Martha B. Briggs and her Lost SchoolsBy Frank Leone Martha Bailey Briggs (1838-1889) was an African American educator who served D.C. as principal of the Miner Normal School...
Mar 4, 2022BlogGWU Student Creates FBA History Project VideoEthan Benn, a GWU Journalism major, has prepared a 2 1/2 minute video on the Foggy Bottom History Project. The video uses comments...
Feb 22, 2022BlogFunkstown – Colbert King Remembers Foggy BottomColbert King, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, grew up in Foggy Bottom in the 1940s and 1950s, when the area was...
Feb 5, 2022BlogFunkstown: What Do the Underground Railroad and the GWU President’s House Have in Common? By Frank Leone On the night of April 15, 1848, 13-year old Emily Edmondson left Foggy Bottom to join her sister and four brothers who...