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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!
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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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"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. 👍 😀

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November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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
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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!
Android bit.ly/4oVDDuv
iOS apple.co/4gxh788

#shutdown #NationalMall #history #usa #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Discover America's Hidden Past on the National Mall

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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga
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.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
armemorydc.bsky.social
"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.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
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October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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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.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
armemorydc.bsky.social
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
armemorydc.bsky.social
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
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It cannot happen here, right? 🤔

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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Is this what we need on the Mall???

Find out what we should build on the Mall instead:
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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Help defend freedom of research and teaching about the past!

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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga
Academic Freedom Under Siege: Brian Rosenberg on the Threats Facing Higher Education Today
Alma Mater, Columbia University. Wm3214, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Amazon / YouTube / Rumble In this episode o…
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October 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Follow us on Bluesky 😍

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History Memory Remember
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October 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Who needs history anyway??? 🤦‍♀️

Get yours here: www.memorydc.com

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#NationalMall #history #usa #ushistory #Washington #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery #dc #dchistory #trump #maga
Syracuse University Pauses Admission for 20 Undergraduate Majors, Including Fine Arts and Digital Humanities
The pause is expected to last one year, before the administration makes a final decision on each program.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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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
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“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
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October 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Take our App to the #NationalMall
Learn more!

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‎AR Memory DC
‎The National Mall in Washington, DC is at the center of national memory in the United States. It features several world class history museums, iconic memorials and many historical markers. Yet, mu...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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
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October 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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If you are visiting the National Mall, discover hidden history with the AR Memory DC app!
iOS apple.co/4gxh788
Android bit.ly/47Xqzj0
Website: www.memorydc.com

#shutdown
#NationalMall #history #washingtondc #smithsonian #visitwashingtondc #travelapp #slavery

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Tourists forced to change plans, scramble to Smithsonian Museums on day one of government shutdown
A lot of tourists are being forced to "go with the flow" because they made plans to visit DC well in advance of knowing about the government shutdown.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Thank you Smithsonian!
If you are visiting the National Mall during the Shutdown, take along our app to learn more:

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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
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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