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Explore the hidden histories of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. with AR Memory DC, an augmented reality app based on research in public history. We will follow back, thank you for helping spread the word!
Download app here: https://www.memorydc.com
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Do not despair!
Visiting the National Mall? Check out our AR App for an amazing tour of hidden stories all around the Mall!
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iOS apple.co/4gxh788

#shutdown #NationalMall #history #usa #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp
"This is not a return to sanity. Rather, it sanitizes to destroy truth." 🤯

Organization of American Historians
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If you visit the National Mall, do not sanitize history. Take our Mobile AR App, learn about the historical truth. 👍 😀

#shutdown #NationalMall #history #usa
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you are visiting the National Mall, take our AR mobile app and choose to remember. 👍 😀

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#shutdown #NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga nine
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do not despair!
Visiting the National Mall? Check out our AR App for an amazing tour of hidden stories all around the Mall!
Android bit.ly/4oVDDuv
iOS apple.co/4gxh788

#shutdown #NationalMall #history #usa #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Trump's war on history continues unabated:

Trump’s pressure on museums won’t stop at the Smithsonian

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Trump’s pressure on museums won’t stop at the Smithsonian
The administration began with cultural institutions that rely on federal dollars. But it’s bigger than that.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"The Berlin Wall never fell!"

Timothy Snyder on the importance of remembering for the future!

#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga #TYRANNY

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The Berlin Wall Never Fell
It Didn't
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October 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
AI is reinforcing harmful colonial-era biases and stereotypes by recycling them from historical archives.

For more information, visit The Conversation: shorturl.at/Lu0f4

#GenerativeAI
#AIbias
Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research
Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.
theconversation.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Please check out this poll over at Twitter. 🙏

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AR Memory DC on X: "Do we need an Arc de Trump on the National Mall?" / X
Do we need an Arc de Trump on the National Mall?
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October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Who gets to remember—and who gets forgotten—when AI becomes our historian? Imagine an engine that sifts the past. If we don’t design the archive, the archive will design us.

#AlgorithmicMemory #AIandHistory #CulturalMemory #DigitalArchives #CollectiveMemory #MuseumTech

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October 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Jefferson enslaved 600+ people while writing "all men are created equal." The paradox that shaped America.

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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“We don’t want a partisan history,” said Matro, a teacher in Bethesda, Maryland. “We want the history that’s produced by real historians.”

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October 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Enslaved workers built the U.S. Capitol—their story remains hidden in plain sight.
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Enslaved Labor and the Capitol Building | AR Memory
Enslaved Labor and the Capitol Building
www.memorydc.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thank you Smithsonian!
If you are visiting the National Mall during the Shutdown, take along our app to learn more:

iOS apple.co/4gxh788
Android bit.ly/47Xqzj0
Website: www.memorydc.com

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Smithsonian will stay open during government shutdown
The Smithsonian says it will use money from past years to help stay open in the event of a federal government shutdown, at least for a few days.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Donald Trump: “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was"
Too much??? It is one floor out of ten! Go visit the museum!

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Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture✊🏿
The Smithsonian African-American Museum of culture in Washington DC
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October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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"Teaching slavery is not Woke! It's HISTORY!"
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Leslie Jones wonders how Jillian Michaels went from counting calories to counting slaves #dailyshow
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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September 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM