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NEW BOOKS ABOUT DC IN 2003

CULTURE

CAPTIVE CAPITAL: Colonial Life in Modern Washington: This book, written by Sam Smith in 1974 and published by Indiana University Press still provides excellent background material on the politics and culture of the city.

THE PAPER BAG PRINCIPLE
Class, Complexion, and Community in Black Washington, D.C
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TURF WARS: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place. An ethnographic account of Mt. Pleasant. Gabrielle Modan

BASEBALL

BEYOND THE SHADOW OF THE SENATORS: Brad Snyder. DC's influence on the integration of baseball

Bealle, Morris Allison. The Washington Senators, an 87-year history of the world's oldest baseball club and most incurable fandom, Columbia publishing company, c1947.

Ceresi, Frank. Baseball in Washington, D.C. / Frank Ceresi, Mark Rucker, Carol McMains. Arcadia Pub., 2002.

Deveaux, Tom. The Washington Senators, 1901-1971. McFarland & Co., c2001.

Hartley, James R. Washington's expansion Senators (1961-1971) / James R. Hartley. Corduroy Press, c1998.

Judge, Mark Gauvreau. Damn Senators : my grandfather and the story of Washington's only World Series championship. Encounter Books, 2003.

Kerr, Jon. Calvin : baseball's last dinosaur : an authorized biography. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, c1990.

Povich, Shirley. The Washington Senators. Putnam, [1954]

Roberts, James C. Hardball on the Hill : baseball stories from our nation's capital. Triumph Books, c2001.

Snyder, Brad. Beyond the shadow of the Senators

BLACK

LEADING THE RACE: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920. Jacqueline M. Moore

GUIDE TO BLACK WASHINGTON: places and events of historical and cultural significance in the nation's capital / Sandra Fitzpatrick, Maria R. Goodwin.

SOULSIDE: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community by Ulf Hannerz. One of our favorite books about Washington.

SECRET CITY: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital by Constance Green. Out of print.

TEN BLOCKS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: ANATOMY OF THE WASHINGTON RIOTS OF 1968 Gilbert, Ben W.

FARTHER ALONG: A CIVIL RIGHTS MEMOIR Marvin Caplan.

FREE NEGROES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1790-1846. Brown, Letitia Woods..

JEAN TOOMER'S WASHINGTON by Barbara Foley

LIFE OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER: The First African-American Man of Science Silvio Bedini.

LIVING IN, LIVING OUT : AFRICAN AMERICAN DOMESTICS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 1910-1940. Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth

LAUGH IF YOU LIKE: AIN'T A DAMN THING FUNNY. The life of local folk hero Petey Greene as told to Lurma Rackley.

SUBVERSIVES: ANTI-SLAVERY COMMUNITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 1828-1865 by Stanley Harrold

TALLEY'S CORNER: A STUDY OF NEGRO STREETCORNER MEN by Elliot Liebow. Out of print.

ESCAPE OF THE PEARL: The fascinating tale of a major attempted slave escape

HISTORY

WILD ROSE: The True Story of a Civil War Spy

CIVIL WAR BAWDY HOUSES

ALLEY LIFE IN WASHINGTON : FAMILY, COMMUNITY, RELIGION, AND FOLKLIFE IN THE CITY Borchert, James

CAPITAL ELITES - Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. High society in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War

100 YEARS OF CAPITAL TRACTION; King, LeRoy

AT PEACE WITH ALL THEIR NEIGHBORS: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital 1787-1960. William W. Warner.

THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON: The British Invasion of 1814 by Anthony S. Pitch

CAPITAL LOSSES: a cultural history of Washington's destroyed buildings. James M. Goode.

CITY OF MAGNIFICENT INTENTIONS

GRAND AVENUES: The story of Pierre L'Enfant

CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS: Downtown Trail Book

THE CREATION OF WASHINGTON, DC : THE IDEA AND LOCATION OF THE AMERICAN CAPITAL Kenneth R. Bowling.

DUKE ELLINGTON'S DC An excellent documentary on early 20th century black Washington

FIRST FREED : WASHINGTON, D.C. IN THE EMANCIPATION ERA edited by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis.

FREEDOM RISING. Washington and the Civil War by Ernest “Pat” Furgurson

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF DC

HISTORY OF WATER QUALITY IN THE POTOMAC BASIN

IN THE ALLEYS: Kids in the Shadow of the Capitol. Washington, D.C. by Frankel, Godfrey, and Laura Goldstein.

LINCOLN'S SANCTUARY - Lincoln's little known second White House: the Anderson Cottage at the Soldiers' Home

MARCHING ON WASHINGTON The Forging of an American Political Tradition By Lucy G. Barber

MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITION IN WASHINGTON DC 1894-1997

PETER CHARLES L'ENFANT: VISION, HONOR AND MALE FRIENDSHIP IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC by Kenneth Russell Bowling.

POLITICAL TERRAIN: WASHINGTON, D.C., FROM TIDEWATER TOWN TO GLOBAL METROPOLIS . Abbott, Carl. Chapel Hill

STREET LAWYER by John Grisham. Set in the world of DC homelessness and legal aid law

THROUGH A FIREY TRIAL: BUILDING WASHINGTON, 1790-1800 by Bob Arnebeck. The first full-length history of the establishment of the city.

THE TRUTH IN CHARITY: A HISTORY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON. Rory T. Conley

URBAN ODYSSEY, eds. F. Cary & J. Jordan. . . PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - Though dry in tone and lacking the unifying vision of a single author, this wide-ranging collection of essays takes a worthy step toward establishing the distinctive migrant and immigrant history of our nation's capital.

WASHINGTON, CITY AND CAPITAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. Federal writers' project. [1937]. A classic book, part of the series done by the Roosevelt administration during the depression.

WASHINGTON: A HISTORY OF THE CAPITAL. The classic history of DC by Constance McLaughlin Green

FICTION & POETRY

DEMOCRACY by Henry Adams

THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE Patricia Browning Griffith

JONES, EDWARD P
All Aunt Hager's Children
The Known World
Lost in the City

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

LOST IN THE CITY by Edward Jones

PELECANOS, GEORGE has written nine crime novels set in DC

SHREVE, SUSAN
Children of Power
Goodbye, Amanda the Good

WASHINGTON, D.C: A NOVEL by Gore Vidal

MEMOIRS

FATHERING WORDS The Making of an African American Writer by Ethelbert Miller

MEMOIRS OF DC: Essays on Washington from the 1950s to the present by Sam Smith

MUSIC

BEAT: GO-GO's FUSION OF FUNK & HIP HOP

CAPITOL ROCK by Mark Opsasnick. Cultural history of Washington rock 'n roll 1951-1976

DANCE OF DAYS : Two decades of punk in the nation's capital

PUNK LOVE: Punk Love documents specifically the birth of the early Washington, D.C., punk movement in 1979. D.C. punk was a different kind of punk. It was hardcore. It was explosive. It was revolutionary.

NEIGHBORHOODS

BLACK GEORGETOWN REMEMBERS: Lesko, Babb & Gibbs.

GREATER U STREET Paul K. Williams.

THEN & NOW ADAMS MORGAN

WASHINGTON AT HOME: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital. Kathryn Schneider Smith ed. Out of print.

TENLEYTOWN, DC: Country village into city neighborhood. Judith Beck Helm

ANACOSTIA STORY, 1608-1930. Louise Daniel Hutchinson

THE CHRONICLES OF GEORGETOWN, D.C., FROM 1751-1878. Richard P. Jackson

BLACK GEORGETOWN REMEMBERED, Kathleen Leskim editor.

IMAGES OF BROOKLAND. George W. McDaniel, John N. Pierce edtiors

PORT TOWN TO URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD : THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT OF WASHINGTON, D.C., 1880-1920 Kathryn Schneider Smith

POLITICS

MARCHING ON WASHINGTON : THE FORGING OF AN AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION. Barber, Lucy G.

STATEHOOD: Articles on the statehood movement

OTHER

DC ALMANAC: A collection of little known facts about the city

DC STATS: DC trends and statistics

FREE AGENTS: A HISTORY OF DC GRAFITTI

GHOSTS: WASHINGTON REVISITED. Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories by John Alexander

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., 1999.

NEWCOMERS HANDBOOK TO WASHINGTON DC by Mike Livingston. Excellent introduction to the city.

WASHINGTON WEATHER: THE WEATHER SOURCEBOOK FOR THE D.C. AREA. Kevin Ambrose, Dan Henry, and Andy Weiss.

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Gentrification of Adams Morgan: Political and Commercial Consequencesof Neighborhood Change

Images of Brookland: The History and Architecture of a WashingtonSuburb

Port Town to Urban Neighborhood: The Georgetown Waterfront

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The Mixed Blessings of Success: The Hecht Company and DepartmentStore Branch Development After World War II

Selected Theses and Dissertations on the Washington, D.C. Region

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