Boundary Stones Video Shorts

On August 8, 1925, the Ku Klux Klan descended on Washington, D.C. — over 30,000 of them.

When Shenandoah National Park was created in the 1930s, hundreds of families lost their homes.

The Washington Monument we see today is not what its architect planned.

Think you know the history of the Monopoly board game? You might be surprised.

In 1972, DC Jail inmates took hostages. Negotiations seemed futile. Then Shirley Chisholm arrived.

In 1954, Fairfax second graders led the charge against polio, which had brought terror for decades.

Both the Smokey Bear character and the real life Smokey hail from Washington, D.C.

The story of a record art purchase which put the National Gallery on the map.

In 1857, an anti-immigrant political movement tried to stop an election with violence at the polls.

Libraries had not been a big part of the civil rights movement but that changed in Alexandria, VA.

For 10 days in 1974, the President of the United States lived on a regular street in Alexandria, VA.

Frank Kameny made history by being the first openly gay man to run for Congress in 1971.