In collaboration with scholars at American University and community residents across Washington, D.C., the Humanities Truck creates exhibits that collect, create, interpret, and curate stories that can return to the communities they originated from and circulate throughout the metropolitan region.
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Petworth Porchfest 2026
Pride 2026
Paul Robeson Day 2026
Anacostia River Festival 2026
Juneteenth 2026
The 1991 Mt. Pleasant Riot
Remixing Petworth: Oral History and Neighborhood Change in Petworth
Emancipation Statue Rededication
Oral History Class 2025
Lunar New Year 2026
Pride Festival 2025
Lunar New Year 2025
Homeless Memorial Vigil 2025
Rock Creek Park Day 2025
AU Family Day 2025
Anacostia River Festival 2025
Adams Morgan Day 2025
Classes Without Quizzes
Celebrate Petworth 2025
Keeping it in Shaw: Art All Night Shaw 2025
Juneteenth 2025
Unmoored: Vietnamese Belonging in Washington D.C.
LatinX at American University: Stories Unveiled
Faces and Places of Mount Pleasant: 1974-2011
Nancy Shia: Liberation Drumming
Homeless Memorial Vigil 2024
Columbia Heights Day 2024
Art All Night Mt. Pleasant 2024
Celebrate Petworth 2024
Adams Morgan Day 2024
Poor People’s Campaign 2024
Malcolm X Park African Drum Circle 2024
Mary McLeod Bethune Rededication
Visitor: Information?
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail – Pride Festival 2024
Juneteenth 2024
Africa on the Avenue 2024
Go-Go Scene Unseen: Women in Washington, DC, Go-Go
Lunar New Year 2024
Art All Night 2023 at Mount Pleasant
Day With(out) Art 2023 – Everyone I Know is Sick
Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
Portraying Petworth – Celebrate Petworth 2023
Adams Morgan Day 2023
Interviewing Alice and Staughton Lynd
Columbia Heights Day 2023
City Point Shove Off Day: The Precursor to Juneteenth
“We’re Here, We’re Queer”: Mapping Queer Space in DC
“Artists are the Gatekeepers of Truth”, Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration
Humanities Truck Film Festival
Voices of Rosedale
Lunar New Year 2023: Reflecting/Envisioning Chinatown
Being and Belonging: DAY WITH(OUT) ART, Visual AIDS Day 2022
Creative Expressions of Self, With Others, and By Others: Celebrate Petworth 2022
Who’s Adams Morgan? Black, White, and in Color
The 158th Battle of Fort Stevens Commemoration
Black Pride, Freedom Day: A Day for Celebration and Remembrance of Black Liberation and Black Excellence
Pride Is___, An Exploration and Celebration of Pride: Past, Present, and Future
“Artists are the Gatekeepers of Truth”, Paul Robeson 124th Birthday Celebration
Knickerbocker Theater Disaster
Lunar New Year with the Humanities Truck: A Community Driven Digital Collage
Black Women’s Movement to Reclaim Our Health
Washington’s Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins’ Dioramas
Working in DC
Your Celebrations in Petworth
Adams Morgan Once and Now: Human Needs or Developers Greed
Taking the Truck OUT! Safe Sex Activism and the AIDS Crisis in D.C.
Eliza: A short documentary
Meeting People Where They Are: Harm reduction as a practice, philosophy, and movement
What Lies Beneath: Documenting the History of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery
“This I Built/Esto Yo Lo Hice” Documentary
Oral Histories, Fall 2020
The Trail to Indigenous People’s Day
“We Blitzed the City”:
Africa in America
Building Resilient Black Food Systems
From Me To You:
A Covid-19 Oral History Project
Lunar New Year at
D.C.’s Chinatown
“It’s A Small World After All” at Petworth Neighborhood Library
Downtown Displaced
Jornaleros:
Manos Invisibles
“Taking the Truck OUT!” at the Whitman-Walker 5K
Class of 1969
Malcolm X Park:
Celebrating 50 Years
Celebrate Petworth
Art All Night:
Fort Reno Retrospective
Late Skate at
Anacostia Park
Community History Snapshots
Resistance & Revolution
Class of 1968
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