Humanities Truck Community Archive

The DC History Conference is an interdisciplinary, community conference considering the past, present, and future of the District. After two years without a conference in 2020 and 2021, the event returned in 2022, this time with free admission. The conference took place March 31-April 2, 2022. The Humanities Truck set up outside of the conference venue at the MLK Jr Memorial Library on April 1 and presented the exhibit "Downtown Displaced: A Case Study of Gentrification in Mount Vernon Square 1840-Present." The exhibit emerged from a four month collaboration with Street Sense artists, and it explores the social costs of neighborhood change in a long temporal context. In addition to the exhibit, the truck team hosted a mapping activity and conducted oral history interviews about people's experiences in the changing downtown area of Washington, DC. This collection contains photos from the event.