Spotlight on….  LOCAL HISTORY

 

 

Alexandria Campus Library collects many titles on local history:

 

Northern Virginia History

 

Virginia History

 

Virginia Travel and Guides

 

Washington, D.C. History

 

Washington, D.C. Travel and Guides

 

 

Or check out the whole list:

 

 

Northern Virginia History

 

Alves, Joseph Hodge, 1905- Near the falls : two hundred years of The Falls

Church  BX5980.F3F33

 

Brown, Stuart E. Virginia baron; the story of Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax  F232.N86F33

 

Cox, Ethelyn. Historic Alexandria, Virginia, street by street : a survey of

existing early buildings  F234.A3C69X1976

 

Dow, Richard B. A history of the second Presbyterian Church, Alexandria,

Virginia, 1817-1950   BX9211.R7S3

 

Fairfax County, Virginia : a history  F232.F2F3X1978

 

Fairfax, Virginia : a city traveling through time  F234.F2 F25x 1997

 

George Washington's Mount Vernon  E312.5 .G46 1998

 

Gernand, Bradley E.  A Virginia Village Goes to War:  Falls Church During the Civil War F234 F17 2002

 

Goldberg, Alfred, 1918- The Pentagon : the first fifty years UA26.V8G65 1992

 

Gutheim, Frederick Albert, 1908- The Potomac F187.P8G8 1974

 

Harris, Nancy E. King George County, Virginia 1720-1990   F232.K45H3X1990

 

Historic Northern Virginia : understanding and protecting our shared heritage  F227.H5X

 

Humphrey, Robert Lee, 1939- Ancient Washington : American Indian cultures of the Potomac Valley E78.D6H85

 

Inside the Pentagon AV --- UA26.V8 I575x 2002

 

Leyendecker, Edgar V., 1939- Investigation of the Skyline Plaza collapse in  Fairfax County, Virginia  TA435.U58 NO.94

 

Netherton, Ross De Witt, 1918- Fairfax County : a contemporary portrait F232.F2N38 1992

 

Northern Virginia heritage Periodical Collection

 

Northern Virginia country : a reference of local information and guide to Arlington County, Fairfax County, Falls Church, Fairfax City, and nearby

places. F232.A4N6X

 

Out of obscurity the story of the 1939 Alexandria Library sit-in  AV --- E185.93.V8 O98x

 

Potter, Stephen R. Commoners, tribute, and chiefs : the development of Algonquian culture in the Potomac Valley E99.A35P67 1993

 

Reed, John Calvin, 1930- The river and the rocks : the geologic story of Great Falls and Potomac River Gorge QE122.G7A57 1980

 

Remember the Titans  AV E185.61 .R3844x 2001

 

Stanton, Richard L. Potomac journey : Fairfax Stone to tidewater F187.P8S73 1993

 

Templeman, Eleanor Lee Reading, 1906- Northern Virginia heritage; a pictorial compilation of the historic sites and homes in the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, Prince William and Stafford, and the cities of Alexandria and Fredericksburg F227 .T4

 

Voges, Nettie Allen. Old Alexandria : where America's past is present  F234.A3V63

 

Whitt, Jane Chapman. Elephants and Quaker guns : Northern Virginia,

crossroads of history  F232.F2W48 1984

 

Virginia History

 

Baker, Donald P. Wilder : hold fast to dreams : a biography of L. Douglas Wilder F231.3.W55B34X1989

 

Beeman, Richard R. Patrick Henry; a biography E302.6.H5B44

 

Before freedom came : African-American life in the antebellum South : to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy  E443.B44 1991

 

Beverley, Robert, ca. 1673-1722. The history and present state of Virginia  F229.B593

 

Blackford, Susan Leigh, b. 1835. Letters from Lee's army or, Memoirs of life in and out of the army in Virginia during the war between the states E605.B63

 

Bond, Edward L. Damned souls in a tobacco colony : religion in seventeenth-century Virginia  BR555.V8 B66 2000

 

Boyle, Sarah-Patton, 1906- The desegregated heart : a Virginian's stand in time of transition  E185.93.V8 B778 2001

 

Brewer, James H. 1933- The Confederate Negro; Virginia's craftsmen and military laborers 1861-1865 E585.N3B7

 

Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race and power in colonial Virginia F229 .B8783 1996

 

Brown, Robert Eldon, 1907- Virginia, 1705-1786:democracy or aristocracy?  F229.B8785

 

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh 1959- Lynching in the New South : Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 HV6465.G4B78 1993

 

Byrd, William, 1674-1744. Prose works; narratives of a colonial Virginia  F229.B963

 

Caruthers, William Alexander, 1802-1846. The knights of the golden horse-shoe; a traditionary tale of the cocked hat gentry in the Old Dominion PS1262.C8K5X

Colonial Chesapeake society F187.C5C65 1988

 

Craven, Wesley Frank, 1905- White, red, and Black: the seventeenth-century Virginian  F229.C897

 

Crews, Edward R. Virginia : the enterprising Dominion enters the twenty-first century F226 .C74x 1999

 

Dabney, Virginius, 1901- Virginia, the new dominion F226.D32 1983

 

Daniels, Jonathan, 1902- The Randolphs of Virginia CS71.R1931972

 

Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 F230.D3

 

DeLorme Mapping Company. Virginia atlas & gazetteer  Reference --- G1290.D4

 

Dowdey, Clifford, 1904- The great plantation; a profile of Berkeley Hundred and plantation Virginia from Jamestown to Appomattox F232.C3D6

 

Dowdey, Clifford, 1904- The Virginia dynasties; the emergence of "King" Carter and the golden age F229.D7

 

Edds, Margaret, 1947- Claiming the dream : the victorious campaign of Douglas Wilder of Virginia F231.3.W55E33 1990

 

Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight. Virginians out front   CT265.E34 

 

The Edge of the South : life in nineteenth-century Virginia F230.E34 1991

 

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's rebellion : the Virginia slave conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 F230.E37 1993

 

The Encyclopedia of Virginia, 1999  Reference --- F226 .E53 1999

 

Fischer, David Hackett, 1935- Bound away : Virginia and the westward movement  F229 .F534 2000

 

Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869. Sketches of Virginia Historical and biographical first series  F226.F682

 

Four hundred years of Virginia, 1584-1984 : an anthology F226.F74 1985

 

Fox, James, 1945- Five sisters : the Langhornes of Virginia CT274.L36 F69 2000

 

Gill, Harold B. The gunsmith in colonial Virginia  TS533.3.V8G54

 

Gleach, Frederic W. 1960- Powhatan's world and Colonial Virginia : a conflict of cultures E99.P85 G54 1997

 

Godwin, Mills E. 1914- Leadership in crisis: selected statements and speech excerpts of the Honorable Mills E. Godwin Jr., Governor of Virginia, 1974-1978 F231.2.G54X

 

Green, Bryan Clark.  Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion.  NA730 V8 G74 2001

 

Griffith, Lucille Blanche, 1905- The Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774 F229.G88 1970

 

Hadden, Sally E. Slave patrols : law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas E443 .H33 2001

 

Holton, Woody. Forced founders : Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia E210 .H695 1999

 

Isaac, Rhys. The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790  F229.I8 1982

 

James, Charles F. 1844-1902. Documentary history of the struggle for religious liberty in Virginia  BR555.V8J3

 

Jamestown narratives : eyewitness accounts of the Virginia Colony, the first decade, 1607- 1617  F234.J3 J34 1998

 

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Notes on the State of Virginia F230.J5102 1955

 

Jordan, Ervin L. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia E585.A35 J67 1995

 

Kolp, John Gilman, 1943- Gentlemen and freeholders : electoral politics in colonial Virginia F230.S9

 

Lee, Nell Moore. Patriot above profit : a portrait of Thomas Nelson, Jr., who supported the American Revolution with his purse and sword E263.V8N435 1988

 

Library of Virginia. The common wealth : treasures from the collections of the Library of Virginia F221 .L53 1997

 

Lillywhite, Donald P. Virginia population projections 2010 Reference --- HA685 .L543 1993

 

Link, William A.  Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia  E445 V8 2003

 

Maddex, Jack P., 1941- The Virginia conservatives, 1867-1879; a study in Reconstruction politics F231.M2

 

The Making of Virginia architecture  NA730.V8M35 1992

 

Mapp, Alf J. 1925- The Virginia experiment : the Old Dominion's role in the making of America (1607-1781) F229.M28 1974

 

The moderates' dilemma : massive resistance to school desegregation in Virginia LC214.22.V8 M63 1998

 

Moger, Allen Wesley, 1905- Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1870-1925 F231.M66

 

Morgan, Edmund Sears. American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia  E445.V8M67 1975

 

Nagel, Paul C. The Lees of Virginia : seven generations of an American family  CT274.L44N34 1990 

 

Nelson, Robert F., 1899- Thrilling legends of Virginia F226.6.N44X

 

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941. Virginia beautiful F231.N96

 

Pulley, Raymond H. Old Virginia restored; an interpretation of the progressive impulse, 1870- 1930 F231.P94

 

Puryear, Paul Lionel, 1930- The status of blacks and minorities in Virginia 1960-1990 : population trends and health  RA448.5.N4 P97x 1995

 

Revolutionary Virginia, the road to independence E263.V8V23

 

Robertson, James I. Civil War Virginia : battleground for a nation E534.9.R62 1991

 

Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923- Virginia : a Bicentennial history F226.R7

 

Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783 E263.V8S45 1988

 

Sheehan, Bernard W. Savagism and civility : Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia E78.V7S53

 

Smith, J. David, 1944- The sterilization of Carrie Buck  HV4989.S65 1989

 

Smith, John, 1580-1631. Captain John Smith's history of Virginia; a selection  F229 .S6356 1970

 

Sobel, Mechal. The world they made together : Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia E185.93.V8S64 1987

 

Talpalar, Morris. The sociology of Colonial Virginia F229.T15

 

Trudeau, Noah Andre, 1949- Bloody roads south : the wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864 E476.52.T78 1989

 

University of Virginia. Institute of Government. Special district government in Virginia JS418.V817X

 

University of Virginia. Library. Virginia genealogy : a guide to resources in the University of Virginia Library Z1345.U57 1983

 

Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963- We mean to be counted : white women & politics in antebellum Virginia HQ1236.5.U6 V37 1998

 

Vaughan, Alden T., 1929- American genesis : Captain John Smith and the founding of Virginia F229.S7495

 

The Virginia handbook F224.3 .V567x

 

Virginia : history and travel  Periodical Collection

 

Virginia facts F221.V77

 

Virginia government and politics : readings and comments JK3919.V57 1984

 

The Virginia magazine of history and biography  Periodical Collection

 

Virginia in maps : four centuries of settlement, growth, and development Reference --- G1291.S1 V5 2000

 

A Virginia profile, 1960-2000 : assessing current trends and problems  JK3925 1981.V55

Antonellli, Lisa M. Virginia : a commonwealth comes of age  HC107.V8A65 1988

Atkinson, Frank B. The dynamic Dominion : realignment and the rise of Virginia's Republican Party since 1945 F231.2.A88 1992

 

Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. Readings in Virginia government; a collection of articles JK3925.V818

 

Virginia, a picture book to remember her by  F231.2.V57X1987

 

Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government. When Virginia joined the Union; a backward look at the powerful prophecy of men who foresaw in 1788 the trend of events in 1963. JK161.V8 1788

 

Virginia. General Assembly. Journals of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia/ Journal of the Senate of Virginia Reference --- J87.V895

 

Virginia's local economies  HC107.V8 V827 1998

 

Washington, George, 1732-1799. Writings E312.72 1997

 

Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966. Virginia under the Stuarts, 1607-1688 F229.W5

 

Wilkinson, Sandra H. Governing the commonwealth then and now: a bicentennial report for Virginia JK3919.W5X

 

The William and Mary quarterly Periodical Collection

 

Wright, Louis B. 1899- The first gentlemen of Virginia; intellectual qualities of the early colonialruling class F229.W965 1964

 

Wynes, Charles E. Race relations in Virginia,1870-1902 E185.93.V8W9

 

Yancey, Dwayne. When hell froze over : the untold story of Doug Wilder : a Black politician's rise to power in the South F231.3.W55Y36 1988

 

 

Virginia Travel & Guides

 

50 hikes in Northern Virginia : walks, hikes, and backpacks from the Allegheny Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay GV199.42.V82 A35 2000

 

Adventure guide to the Chesapeake Bay  F187.C5 A38x

 

Adventure guide to Virginia  F224.3 .A38

 

Cavileer, Sharon. Virginia curiosities : quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff F226.6 .C38 2002

 

Colbert, Judy. Virginia : off the beaten path F224.3 .C65 2001

 

Directory of Virginia museums Reference --- AM11 D59

 

Hogarth, Paul, 1917- Walking tours of old Washington and Alexandria F192.3.H63 1985

 

Johnson, Clint, 1953- Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War sites E534 .J64 1999

 

Mulligan, Tim, 1938- Virginia : a history and guide Reference --- F224.3.M85 1986

 

Peters, Margaret T. A guidebook to Virginia's historical markers F227.P48 1985

 

Smolan, Rick.  Virginia 24/7: Amazing Photographs of an Extraordinary State  F227 V758 2004

 

Virginia landmarks of Black history : sites on the Virginia landmarks register and the National register of historic places E185.93.V8 V57 1995

 

The Virginia landmarks register Reference --- F227 .V864 1999

 

Washington on foot : 23 walking tours (with maps) of Washington, D.C., and Old Town Alexandria F192.3.W335 1992

 

Wiencek, Henry. Virginia and the capital region   F106.W64 1989

 

Winegar, Deane. Natural wonders of Virginia : exploring wild and scenic places QH76.5.W18 B46 1994

 

 

Washington History

 

Abbott, Carl. Political terrain : Washington, D.C., from Tidewater town to global metropolis F203.7.P4H54 1988

 

Agronsky, Jonathan I. Z., 1946- Marion Barry : the politics of race F201.3.B37A65 1991

 

Allen, Thomas B. The Washington Monument : it stands for all F203.4.W3 A46 2000

 

Allgor, Catherine, 1958- Parlor politics : in which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government HQ1236.5.U6 A45 2000

 

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. America's first families : an inside view of 200 years of private life in the White House E176.1 .A68 2000

 

Barber, Lucy G. 1964- Marching on Washington : the forging of an American political tradition E743 .B338 2002

 

Barras, Jonetta Rose. The last of the Black emperors : the hollow comeback of Marion Barry in the new age of Black leaders F201.3.B37 B37 1998

 

Benedetto, Robert.  Historical Dictionary of Washington, DC.  REF F192 B46 2003

 

Bigler, Philip. Washington in focus : the photo history of the nation's capital F195.B54 1988

 

Black Georgetown remembered : a history of its black community from the founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the present day F202.G3 L47 1991

 

Boller, Paul F. Presidential inaugurations F196 .B65 2001

 

Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958. The tragic era; the revolution after Lincoln E668.B779

 

Bowling, Kenneth R. The creation of Washington, D.C. : the idea and location of the American capital F197.B69 1991

 

Brinkley, David. Washington goes to war D769.85.D6B75 1988

 

Cameron, Robert, 1943- Above Washington : a collection of nostalgic and contemporary aerial photographs of the District of Columbia F195.C35X

 

Columbia historical society, Washington, D.C. Records. v.1.-March 1894-19 F191.C72

 

Dillon, David, 1941- The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial : designed by Lawrence Halprin NA737.H27 D56x 1998

 

French, Benjamin B. 1800-1870. Witness to the young republic : a yankee's journal, 1828-1870 E338.F74 1989

 

Gibbs, Carroll R.  Black, Copper, & Bright: The District of Columbia’s Black Civil War Regiment. (on order)

 

Gillette, Howard. Between justice and beauty : race, planning, and the failure of urban policy in Washington, D.C. HN80.W3 G55 1995

 

Good, James M.  Best addresses : a century of Washington's distinguished apartment houses NA7860.G66 1988

 

Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- The secret city; a history of race relations in the Nation's Capital E185.93.D6G7

 

Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- Washington : a history of the capitol, 1800-1950 F194.G7 1976

 

Griffin, Mark G. Lily Spandorf's Washington never more / by Mark G. Griffin and Ellen M McCloskey F195 .G75 1988

 

Harris, Charles Wesley, 1928- Congress and the governance of the Nation's Capital : the conflict of Federal and local interests JK2716 .H37 1995

 

Hemrick, Eugene F. One nation under God : religious symbols, quotes, and images in our nation's capital N7911.W3 H46 2001

 

Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Pennsylvania Avenue : America's main street F203.7.P4H54 1988

 

Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Union Station : a decorative history of Washington's grand terminal F204.U5H54 1988

 

Humphrey, Robert Lee, 1939- Ancient Washington : American Indian cultures of the Potomac Valley E78.D6H85

 

Jaffe, Harry. Dream city : race, power, and the decline of Washington, D.C. F216.2.J34 1994

 

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912- A White House diary E848.J6

 

Junior League of Washington (Washington, D.C.) The city of Washington : an illustrated history F197.B69 1991

 

Kousoulas, George W. Washington : portrait of a city TR659 .K68 2001

 

Lee, Elizabeth Blair. Wartime Washington : the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee E601.L44 1991

 

Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974. Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 E356.W3 P49 1998

 

Levey, Bob, 1945- Washington album : a pictorial history of the nation's capital F194 .L462x 2000

 

Lewis, David L. District of Columbia : a bicentennial history F197.B69 1991

 

The Library of Congress : an architectural alphabet Z733.U6 L54 2000

 

Meyer, Jeffrey F. Myths in stone : religious dimensions of Washington, D.C. BL2527.W18 M49 2001

 

Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965- Leading the race : the transformation of the Black elite in the nation's capital, 1880-1920 E185.93.D6 M66 1999

 

Ovason, David. The secret architecture of our nation's capital : the Masons and the building of Washington, D.C. NK1590.Z63 O94 2000

 

Reed, Robert Carroll, 1937- Old Washington, D.C., in early photographs, 1846-1932 F195.B54 1988

 

Repak, Terry A., 1953- Waiting on Washington : Central American workers in the nation's capital HD8085.W183 R46 1995

 

Reps, John William. Washington on view : the nation's capital since 1790 F195.R34 1991

 

Roehrenbeck, William Joseph, 1913- The regiment that saved the Capital E523.5 7th .R6

 

Smith, Sam, 1937- Captive Capital; colonial life in modern Washington HN80.W3S45

 

The U.S. Capitol a vision in stone AV --- NA4411 .U573x 2001

 

The United States Capitol : designing and decorating a national icon NA4411 .U55 2000

 

Urban odyssey : a multicultural history of Washington, D.C. JV6940 .U73 1996

 

Walton, William, 1909- The evidence of Washington F200.W24

 

The Wall : images and offerings from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial DS559.83.W18 W355x 1987

 

Washington, D.C. : a Smithsonian book of the nation's capital F194.W35 1992

 

Wills, Mary Alice. The Confederate blockade of Washington, D.C., 1861-1862 E600.W55

 

Young, James Sterling. The Washington community, 1800-1828 E338.Y6 1966

 

Washington Travel & Guides

 

Applewhite, E. J. Washington itself : an informal guide to the Capital of the United States F192.3.K46 1983

 

Butler, Brian, 1950- DC for free Reference --- F192.3.B88 1990

 

Cooling, B. Franklin. Mr. Lincoln's forts : a guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington F195.C66 1988

 

Evelyn, Douglas E., 1941- On this spot : pinpointing the past in Washington, D.C F192.3.E84 1992

 

Fitzpatrick, Sandra. The guide to Black Washington : places and events of historical and cultural significance in the nation's capital Reference --- F205.N4F58 1990

 

Getlein, Frank. The Washington, D.C., art review : the art explorer's guide to Washington AM13.W3 R67 1992

 

Hogarth, Paul, 1917- Walking tours of old Washington and Alexandria F192.3.H63 1985

 

Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. Testament to Union : Civil War monuments in Washington, D.C. F203.4.A1 J33 1998

 

Natural Washington : a guide for hikers, bikers, birders, and other lovers of nature in the greater capital area  QH76.5.W18 B46 1994

 

Perkins, Lori. The everything guide to Washington, D.C. : monuments, museums, family attractions, hotels, restaurants and more F192.3 .P47 2000

 

Ross, Betty. A museum guide to Washington, D.C. : museums, historic houses, art galleries libraries, and special places open to the public in the Nation's Capital and vicinity Reference --- AM13.W3R67 1988

 

Sclar, Charlotte L., 1907- The Smithsonian : a guide to its national public facilities in Washington, D.C. Reference --- Q11.S8S35 1985

The Best of Washington, D.C. Reference --- F192.3.B48 1988

 

Thompson, Dolphin G. A picture guide to Black America in Washington, D.C. E185.93.D6T48

 

Washington on foot : 23 walking tours (with maps) of Washington, D.C., and Old Town Alexandria F192.3.W335 1992

 

Weeks, Christopher, 1950- AIA guide to the architecture of Washington, D.C. Reference --- NA735.W3 W44 1994

 

Whitman, William B. Washington, D.C. : off the beaten path F192.3 .W48 2001

 

Writers' Program (Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. : a guide to the Nation's Capital Reference --- F192.3.W75 1976