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H-DC Fifty Essential Washington DC History Books (2011) Page published by Matthew Gilmore on Monday, August 11, 2014 50 Essential Washington DC History Books [2011] Compiled by DC Public Library Washingtoniana Division and the DC Center for the Book. The Jews of Washington, D.C. : a communal history anthology / edited by David Altshuler. 1st ed. [Washington, D.C.] : Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington ; Chappaqua, N.Y. : Rossel Books, c1985. Barras, Jonetta Rose. The last of the Black emperors : the hollow comeback of Marion Barry in the new age of Black leaders / Jonetta Rose Barras ; photos by Darrow Montgomery. Baltimore, Md. : Bancroft Press, c1998. Barber, Lucy G. (Lucy Grace), 1964- Marching on Washington : the forging of an American political tradition / Lucy G. Barber. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. Bergheim, Laura, 1962- The Washington historical atlas : who did what when and where in the nation's capital / Laura Bergheim. Rockville, MD : Woodbine House, 1992. Borchert, James, 1941- Alley life in Washington : family, community, religion, and folklife in the city, 1850-1970 / James Borchert. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1980. Bowling, Kenneth R. The creation of Washington, D.C. : the idea and location of the American capital / Kenneth R. Bowling. Fairfax, Va. : George Mason University Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by arrangement with University Pub. Associates, c1991. Brown, Letitia Woods. Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart. A history of the national capital from its foundation through the period of the adoption of the organic act, New York, The Macmillan company, 1914-16 Caplan, Marvin Harold.- Farther along : a civil rights memoir/ Marvin Caplan. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1999 Washington odyssey : a multicultural history of the nation's capital / edited by Francine Curro Cary. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, 2003. [new edition of Urban Odyssey] First freed : Washington, D.C. in the emancipation era / edited by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 2002. Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living in, living out : African American domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 / Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994. Citation: Matthew Gilmore. Fifty Essential Washington DC History Books (2011). H-DC. 08-11-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28441/pages/37556/fifty-essential-washington-dc-history-books-2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-DC Peter, Grace Dunlop. A portrait of old George town, by Grace Dunlop Ecker. Richmond, Va., Garrett & Massie, incorporated [1933] Federal writers' project. Washington, city and capital. Washington, D.C., U. S. Govt. print. off. [1937] Fitzpatrick, Sandra. The guide to Black Washington : places and events of historical and cultural significance in the nation's capital / Sandra Fitzpatrick, Maria R. Goodwin. Black Washington Rev. illustrated ed. New York : Hippocrene Books, 2001. H-DC Review Forman, Stephen M. (Stephen Michael), 1943- A guide to Civil War Washington / Stephen M. Forman. Washington, D.C. : Elliott & Clark Pub., c1995. Gillette, Howard. Between justice and beauty : race, planning, and the failure of urban policy in Washington, D.C. / Howard Gillette, Jr. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995. Southern city, national ambition : the growth of early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860 / editor, Howard Gillette, Jr. ; essays by Mary Beth Corrigan ... [et al.]. Washington : Published by George Washington University Center for Washington Area Studies in conjunction with the American Architectural Foundation, c1995. George Washington University. Center for Washington Area Studies. Goode, James M. Best addresses : a century of Washington's distinguished apartment houses / James M. Goode ; photographers, James Stafford Phillips and James F. Tetro. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Goode, James M. Capital losses : a cultural history of Washington's destroyed buildings / James M. Goode. 2nd ed. Washington : Smithsonian Books, 2003. Goode, James M. The outdoor sculpture of Washington, D.C. A comprehensive historical guide / James M. Goode. 1st ed. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press [distributed by G. Braziller] 1974. Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- The secret city; a history of race relations in the Nation's Capital.Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967. United States. National Capital Planning Commission. Worthy of the nation : the history of planning for the national capital / National Capital Planning Commission ; Frederick Gutheim, consultant. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1977. Headley, Robert K. (Robert Kirk), 1938- Motion picture exhibition in Washington, D.C. : an illustrated history of parlors, palaces, and multiplexes in the metropolitan area, 1894-1997 / Robert K. Headley. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1999. H-DC Review Helm, Judith Beck. Tenleytown, D.C., country village into city neighborhood/ Judith Beck Helm. Washington, D.C. : Tennally Press, 2000. Hutchinson, Louise Daniel. The Anacostia story, 1608-1930 / Louise Daniel Hutchinson. Washington : Published for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977. Citation: Matthew Gilmore. Fifty Essential Washington DC History Books (2011). H-DC. 08-11-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28441/pages/37556/fifty-essential-washington-dc-history-books-2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-DC Jackson, Richard Plummer, 1816-1891. The chronicles of Georgetown, D.C., from 1751-1878. By Richard P. Jackson ... Washington, D.C., R. O. Polkinhorn, printer, 1878. Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. Capital elites : high society in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War / Kathryn Allamong Jacob. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995. Jaffe, Harry. Dream city : race, power, and the decline of Washington, D.C. / Harry S. Jaffe and Tom Sherwood. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994. The City of Washington : an illustrated history/ by the Junior League of Washington ; edited by Thomas Froncek. New York : Wings Books, 1992. Junior League of Washington (Washington, D.C.) King, LeRoy O. 100 years of capital traction; the story of streetcars in the Nation's Capital [by] LeRoy O. King, Jr. [College Park, Md.] Taylor Pub. Co. [c1972] Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974. Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech. New York, London, Harper & brothers [c1941] Black Georgetown remembered : a history of its black community from the founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the present day / Kathleen M. Lesko, general editor & contributing author ; Valerie Babb and Carroll R. Gibbs, contributing authors. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1991. Lesko, Kathleen M. Babb, Valerie Melissa. Gibbs, Carroll R. Levey, Bob, 1945- Washington album : a pictorial history of the nation's capital / Bob Levey and Jane Freundel Levey. 1st ed. Washington : Washington Post Books, c2000. Levey, Jane Freundel. Images of Brookland : the history and architecture of a Washington suburb / edited by George W. McDaniel, John N. Pearce ; revised and enlarged by Martin Aurand. Washington, D.C. : Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington University, c1982. McDaniel, George W. Pearce, John N. Aurand, Martin. George Washington University. Center for Washington Area Studies. Mackall, Sally Somervell. Early days of Washington, Washington, The Neale company [c1899] Maddex, Diane. Historic buildings of Washington, D.C. With a foreword by Arthur Cotton Moore. [1st ed.] Pittsburgh, Ober Park Associates [1973] "A selection from the records of the Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior." Melder, Keith E. City of magnificent intentions : a history of Washington, District of Columbia/ by Keith Melder with Melinda Young Stuart. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : Intac, c1997. Miller, Fredric. Washington seen : a photographic history, 1875-1965 / Fredric M. Miller and Howard Gillette, Jr. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Gillette, Howard. Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965- Leading the race : the transformation of the Black elite in the nation's capital, 1880-1920 / Jacqueline M. Moore. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999. H-DC Review Citation: Matthew Gilmore. Fifty Essential Washington DC History Books (2011). H-DC. 08-11-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28441/pages/37556/fifty-essential-washington-dc-history-books-2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 3 H-DC Proctor, John Clagett, 1867-1956, ed. Washington, past and present; a history,New York, Lewis historical publishing company, inc., 1930. Williams, Edwin Melvin, 1880- [from old catalog] joint ed. Black, Frank P., 1864- [from old catalog] joint ed. 4 v. fronts., plates, ports., maps, plan, facsims. 28 cm. Rusell, Hilary. Final research report: the operation of the undergropund railroad in Washington, D.C. 1800-1860. Historical Society of Washington DC and National Park Service, 2001 Scott, Pamela, 1944- Buildings of the District of Columbia / Pamela Scott, Antoinette J. Lee. New York :