- National Archives: Home to important documents like the Emancipation Proclamation as well as personal artifacts like enlistment records for the individual soldiers who fought in the war
- Library of Congress: Home to historic documents and a collection of more than 1,100 photographs, many taken by Matthew Brady
- National Museum of American History: Home to Abraham Lincoln’s ink stand, battle lithographs, the Confederate Articles of War, currency proof sets, draft letters and other artifacts.
- National Postal Museum: You can view Civil War-era stamps, including stamps issued by the Confederacy.
- Dupont Circle Metro: Look for the Walt Whitman quote, from “The Wound Dresser”:
Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals;
The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all dark night - some are so young;
Some suffer so much - I recall the experience sweet and sad...
- Lincoln’s Cottage: Where some of Lincoln’s personal writings on display
- Tudor Place: A Georgetown estate where you can read personal letters written by members of a family torn apart by war.
- National Building Museum: The museum was originally built to house the pension bureau, where Civil War veterans traveled to file their paperwork to collect compensation for their service.
- Lincoln Memorial: Excerpts from Lincoln’s second inaugural address and the Gettysburg address are carved into the walls. There’s also a plaque marking the spot that Martin Luther King Jr. stood to deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.
- Civil War to Civil Rights Trail: Walk around downtown DC and follow the signs illustrating the Civil War to Civil Rights interpretive trail, including locations like the Willard Hotel, where Martin Luther King Jr. penned his “I Have a Dream” speech and Mary Surratt’s boarding house, where the conspirators plotted Lincoln’s assassination.
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