Individual Projects

Individual Projects

PROJECTS COMPLETED BY PROLOGUE DC HISTORIANS Mara Cherkasky This Place Has A Voice, Canal Park public art project, consulting historian, http://www.thisplacehasavoice.info The Hotel Harrington: A Witness to Washington DC's History Since 1914 (brochure, 2014) An East-of-the-River View: Anacostia Heritage Trail (Cultural Tourism DC, 2014) Remembering Georgetown's Streetcar Era: The O and P Streets Rehabilitation Project (exhibit panels and booklet documenting the District Department of Transportation's award-winning streetcar and pavement-preservation project, 2013) The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia: The First 100 Years (exhibit panels and PowerPoint presentations, 2013) Historic Park View: A Walking Tour (booklet, Park View United Neighborhood Coalition, 2012) DC Neighborhood Heritage Trail booklets: Village in the City: Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail (2006); Battleground to Community: Brightwood Heritage Trail (2008); A Self-Reliant People: Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail (2009); Cultural Convergence: Columbia Heights Heritage Trail (2009); Top of the Town: Tenleytown Heritage Trail (2010); Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail (2011); Lift Every Voice: Georgia Avenue/Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail (2011); Hub, Home, Heart: H Street NE Heritage Trail (2012); and Make No Little Plans: Federal Triangle Heritage Trail (2012) “Mount Pleasant,” in Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital (Kathryn Schneider Smith, editor, Johns Hopkins Press, 2010) Mount Pleasant (book, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2007) “Career Choices of Middle Class African American Women in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,” presented at Towson University Multidisciplinary Conference on the Scholarship and Creativity of African Americans, Towson, MD (April 1998) “For Sale to Colored: Racial Turnover on S Street, NW,” Washington History, Winter 1996; also presented at Towson University Multidisciplinary Conference on the Scholarship and Creativity of African Americans, Towson, MD (April 1997) Sarah Shoenfeld Worthy Ambition: LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail (2014) A Fitting Tribute: Logan Circle Heritage Trail (2013) Neighborhood history posts for Houses with Character: Life & Real Estate in DC, http://www.houseswithcharacter.com (2013) Oral histories for Smithsonian Institution Archives and DC Gardeners Oral History Project (2013) “From Emancipation to the March on Washington: The Growth of African American Neighborhoods in Washington, DC,” Black History Month Lecture for the Association of American Medical Colleges (2013) Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street Heritage Trail (2012) Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail (2011) “Joseph Henry: A Life in Science” (2011) (http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/joseph-henry) “A History of Voting Rights in Washington, D.C.” (Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 2009) Book reviews: The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C., by Audrey Elisa Kerr (H-DC, 2007, http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=13464); Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, by Nell Irvin Painter (The New England Quarterly, December 1997) “Applications and Admissions to the Home for Aged Colored Women in Boston, Massachusetts, 1860-1887,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (July 2001-January 2002) “Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory” (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/, 2000) .

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