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Washington History

 

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

 

Achenbach, Joel.  The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West.  F187 P8 A23 2004

 

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

 

Angelo, Bonnie.  The First Families: The Impact of the White House on their Lives.  E176.1 A665 2005

 

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

 

Bercuson, David.  One Christmas In Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt And Churchill That Changed The World.  D750 B46 2005

 

Berg, Scott.  Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington DC.  NA9085 L47 B47 2007

 

Bigler, Philip.  In Honored Glory: Arlington National Cemetery and the Final Post.  F234 A7 B54 2005

 

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

 

Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology – 300 Years of African American History.  F205 N4 B55 2005

 

Blue Spruce, Duane.  Spirit of a Native Place: Building the National Museum of the American Indian.  E76.86 W182 N377 2004

 

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

 

Brinkley, Douglas.  The World War II Memorial: A Grateful Nation Remembers.  D836 W37 W68 2004

 

Burleigh, Nina.  The Stranger & The Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian.  Q11 B97 2003

 

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

 

Dickson, Paul.  The Bonus Army: An American Epic.  F199 D55 2004

 

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

 

Ewing, Heather.  The Lost World Of James Smithson.  Q143 S6 E95x 2007

 

French, Benjamin B. 1800-1870. Witness to the Young Republic : A Yankee's Journal, 1828-1870 E338.F74 1989

 

Furgurson, Ernest B.  Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War.  E501 F87 2004

 

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 2006

 

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

 

Heymann, C. David.  The Georgetown Ladies’ Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation’s Capital.  HQ1236.5 U6 H49 2003

 

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

 

Hunter, Stephen.  American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out That Stopped It.  E184 H86 2005

 

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

 

Kaser, James.  The Washington DC of Fiction: A Research Guide.  Z1231 F4 K37 2006

 

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

 

Krugler, David.  This is Only a Test: How Washington DC Prepared for Nuclear War.  UA928.5 W3 K89 2006

 

Kurin, Richard.  Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem.  NK7663 K87 2006

 

Kuska, Bob. Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth To Black Basketball and Changed America Forever.  GV885.73 W18 K87 2004

 

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

 

Leepson, Marc.  Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington DC and Changed American History.  E476.66 L44 2007

 

Lessoff, Alan.  Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America.  NA737 C5 A83 2005

 

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

 

Loverro, Thom.  Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins.  GV956 W3 L678 2006

 

McGregor, James.  Washington From The Ground Up.  F194 M37 2007

 

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

 

Mills, Nicoloaus.  Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial.  D836 W37 M55 2004

 

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

 

Mudd, Roger.  The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.  PN4874 M75 A3 2008

 

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

 

Packard, Jerrold M.  The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family.  E457.25 P23 2005

 

Pacheco, Josephine F.  The Pearl: The Failed Slave Escape On the Potomac.  E445 D6 P33 2005

 

Party Animals” Washington DC.  N6536 W3 P37 2002

 

Peatross, C. Ford.  Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington DC from the Library of Congress.  NA2695 U6 L533 2005

 

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

 

Remini, Robert.  The House: The History of the House of Representatives.  JK1319 R46 2006

 

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

 

Richler, Martha.  National Gallery of Art: A World of Art.  N856 R434 1998

 

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

 

Schrag, Zachary.  The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro.  HE4491 W44 W376 2006

 

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

 

Solomon, Burt.  Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation’s Capital.  F193 S65 2004

 

Svrluga, Barry.  National Pastime: Sports, Politics, and the Return of Baseball to Washington DC.  GV863 W18 S87 2006

 

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

 

Thomas, Helen.  Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and how it has Failed the Public.  PN4738 T56 2006

 

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

 

Vogel, Steve.  The Pentagon: The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon – and the Restore it Sixty Years Later.  UA26 A745 V64 2007

 

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