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Lecture Series
Since 2002, the Overbeck Project has presented four lectures per year by local historians, authors and scholars on the history of Capitol Hill and the larger Washington, D.C. community.
All lectures are open to the public and offered free of charge.
Past Lectures:
May 19, 2025
The 80-Year Struggle to Build the DC National Guard Armory
March 31, 2025
How the Carry-Didden Family Left Their Mark On Capitol Hill and Beyond
December 16, 2024
Historic Congressional Cemetery: A Vision through the Centuries
October 7, 2024
Boathouse Row: DC’s History Seen from the Anacostia
May 13, 2024
Thomas Smallwood, the Underground Railroad, and Capitol Hill
March 11, 2024
United States Botanic Garden: 200 Years of Contributions
December 4, 2023
Capitol Hill’s Inhabited Alleys
October 16, 2023
Row Houses of Capitol Hill
April 24, 2023
Washington Navy Yard: Celebrating 224 Years in the Neighborhood
November 7, 2022
William Costin: A Tribute to Worth by His Friends.
September 19, 2022
"Hog Catcher Hog Catcher" Farm Animals on Capitol Hill
April 11, 2022
The Intersections of History: Five Parks that Changed Washington
December 6, 2021
Bridge Across History
October 25, 2021
Following the Trail of John Burroughs
March 9, 2020
Places of Protest: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in the Nation’s Capital
December 2, 2019
Exposing Washington's History with Archaeology's New Tools
September 16, 2019
A Monument to Literature in a City of Politics
May 13, 2019
The Green Legacy of 19th Century Washingtonians
March 11, 2019
The Razzle-Dazzle: Mary Shiner Almarolia (1833-1904)
November 5, 2018
The Washington Riots of 1968: The View from Capitol Hill
September 24, 2018
Anacostia Park - And a River Runs By It
May 21, 2018
Native Americans Who Never Left Capitol Hill
March 15, 2018
A Closer Look at Capitol Hill's Historic Alleys
November 13, 2017
Looking at the L'Enfant Plan in a New Light
September 25, 2017
Union Terminal Market, Then and Now
May 8, 2017
Capitol Hill Leisure During Segregation
March 6, 2017
Buzzard Point – From Indians to Soccer
November 7, 2016
Alexander Shepherd and the Making of Modern Washington
September 19, 2016
A Virtual Tour of Capitol Hill's Rainbow History
May 9, 2016
Frederick Douglass's Years in Washington
February 8, 2016
Capitol Hill and the Capital
November 9, 2015
Emily Edson Briggs of The Maples
September 21, 2015
Duke Ellington's Washington
April 14, 2015
The Washington Arsenal Explosion
February 24, 2015
Alice Dunnigan: A Reporter "Alone Atop the Hill"
November 17, 2014
Why Washington, D.C., Has No Vote in Congress
September 16, 2014
The President's Own: A History of the U.S. Marine Band
April 8, 2014
How the Folgers Brought the Bard to Capitol Hill
February 4, 2014
Michael Shiner's Diary, 1813-1869: A Black Man Looks at 19th Century Washington
November 5, 2013
"This is the City and I Am One of the Citizens": Walt Whitman in Washington
September 17, 2013
A City Transformed: Washington in the Civil War
April 16, 2013
Simeon Booker: Eyewitness to the Civil Rights Revolution
February 5, 2013
Washington in the Movies: How Hollywood Views the Nation's Capital
November 20, 2012
A Preservation Success Story: Compatibility and Economic Growth in Washington's Historic Districts
September 18, 2012
Snow Storm in August: The Washington Race Riot of 1835
March 18, 2012
301 East Capitol: Tales from the Heart of the Hill
February 7, 2012
Congressional Cemetery: Its Past, Present, and Future
November 8, 2011
The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829
September 13, 2011
How Dry We Weren't: Prohibition in Washington, D.C.
April 19, 2011
The Life, Decline, and Rebirth of the Old Naval Hospital
March 8, 2011
Washington at Home: Neighborhoods Tell the D.C. Story
November 9, 2010
The Engineer and the Artist: Montgomery Meigs, Constantino Brumidi and the Capitol Frescos
October 12, 2010
The Streetcars in Washington, D.C.
April 20, 2010
The Old Naval Lodge and Freemasonry in Washington, D.C.
March 2, 2010
The Capitol Hill Restoration Society: Past, Present and Future
November 8, 2009
301 East Capitol: Growing Up on the Hill in the 1920s
September 22, 2009
William Prout's Grave: The Beginning of a Grand Adventure
April 14, 2009
Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia
February 10, 2009
The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance
November 11, 2008
Envisioning Early Washington
September 9, 2008
L'Enfant's Grand Avenues
April 8, 2008
Historic Capitol Hill Row House Designs: Not Colonial Williamsburg
February 12, 2008
African American Housing in 19th Century D.C.
November 6, 2007
Capitol Hill's John Philip Sousa
September 11, 2007
The Anacostia: Our Neighborhood's River, and the Nation's
April 10, 2007
Hollywood on the Potomac: D.C. on Film - Getting it Wrong and Getting It Right??
February 27, 2007
Past and Future of the National Mall
November 14, 2006
Growing Up on the Hill in the 1920s and '30s
September 19, 2006
The Improbable History of Eastern Market
April 11, 2006
The Washington Navy Yard
February 7, 2006
The Breweries of Capitol Hill
November 15, 2005
The Instrument Makers of Capitol Hill
September 13, 2005
Adolf Cluss: The Navy Yard Communist Who Designed Eastern Market
April 12, 2005
Remembering the Bonus Army
February 15, 2005
Washington's Railways and the Rise of Union Station
November 9, 2004
Alexander R. Shepherd: D.C.'s Unappreciated Visionary
September 14, 2004
Washington's Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball
April 13, 2004
Capitol Hill in the Jazz Age and the Great Depression
February 10, 2004
Contested Ground: Aboriginal America and the Potomac Frontier, A.D. 700 to 1676
November 18, 2003
The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment
September 16, 2003
The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814
April 8, 2003
Capitol Hill Before L'Enfant
February 11, 2003
Our Neighborhood's River: The Changing Life of the Aanacostia
November 12, 2002
Cauldron and Community: Joining the Hill in the 1960s
September 10, 2002
Capitol Hill During the Civil War
April 9, 2002
Freemasonry on Capitol Hill and Beyond
February 5, 2002
Washington in the Days of Theodore Roosevelt
