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VINDICATOR
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RIVER
EAST
OF THE RIVER
EAST
RIVER DC
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GEORGETOWN
CURRENT
GEORGETOWNER
GEORGETOWN
WEB SITE
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SITE
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INTOWNER
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DC
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POETS AGAINST THE WAR
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& SOUL
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BLACK
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BUY
INDIE
CAMPUS
GEORGETOWN
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RATE
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CHILDREN
DC
Action for Children
DC
Voice
Kids
Count
Kid Power DC
Parents United:
518-3667
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DC
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EMPOWER
DC
ONE
DC
ECOLOGY &
PLANNING
ANACOSTIA
WATERSHED SOCIETY
CASEY
TREES FUND
COMMUNITY FORKLIFT
DC
ENVIRONMENTAL NTWK
ONE
DC
PEOPLE'S
ALLIANCE FOR ROCK CREEK PARK
POTOMAC CONSERVANCY
POTOMAC
REGION SOLAR ENERGY ASSN
RESOURCE
GUIDE FOR BUYING WISELY IN DC
SIERRA
CLUB
WASH
PARKS & PEOPLE
EDUCATION
DC
COALITION FOR DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION
DC
EDUCATION BLOG
DC INDEPENDENTS
FOR CITIZEN CONTROL
DC
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FIX
OUR SCHOOLS
SAVE
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STOP
DC VOUCHERS
GAY, LESBIAN,
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CAPITAL
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& LESBIAN ALLIANCE
GERTRUDE STEIN DEMOCRATS
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OF DC
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PROJECT
HEALTH
DC
PRIMARY CARE ASSN
PURE
WATER DC
HOUSING
DC
HOUSING MAILING LIST
DC TENANTS ADVOCACY COALITION
ONE
DC
SAVE
FRANKLIN SHELTER
JUSTICE
ACLU
DAVID CLARKE SCHOOL OF
LAW
DC COALITION TO PROTECT
CIVIL LIBERTIES
DC
EMPLOYMENT JUSTICE CTR
DC NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
DC
PRISONERS LEGAL SRVC
LEGAL
CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS
OBSERVING
SURVEILLANCE
KOREAN
KOREAN
AMERICAN COALITION
LABOR
AFL-CIO
METRO COUNCIL
AFSCME LOCAL
20
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT
UNION
COALITION OF UNION
WOMEN
DC EMPLOYMENT
JUSTICE CTR
DC NURSES ASSN
DC
PARKING JUSTICE
GEORGETOWN
U SOLIDARITY COMM
NATIONAL WRITERS UNION DC
NEWSPAPER
GUILD
SEIU
SEIU LOCAL 82
WASHINGTON POST
UNFAIR
LATINO
LATIN
AMERICAN YOUTH CTR
COUNCIL
OF LATINO AGENCIES
MEDIA
CITY
DESK
COFFEE HOUSE
INDEPENDENT
MEDIA CTR
MIKEY
'ZINE
WPFW LOCAL ADVISORY BD
MISC
PROVISIONS
LIBRARY
MUSIC
BLOWBACK
POSITIVE
FORCE
PEACE
CODE
PINK
COMTY
COALITION FOR JUSTICE & PEACE
COUNTER-RECRUITMENT
DC
ANTIWAR NETWORK
PEACE
EVENT CALENDAR
PROPOSITION
ONE PROTEST
WASH PEACE
CENTER
POLITICS
ACTIVIST
EVENTS
COMM
OF CORRESPONDENCE
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DC
STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY
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PANTHERS
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ITS ALTERNATIVES
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SELF GOVERNMENT
DC
CITIZENS FOR DEMOCRACY
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PARTY
LAST COLONY FILM
STAND
UP FOR DEMOCRACY
SPORTS &
RECREATION
FIELD
OF SCHEMES
NO
DC TAXES FOR BASEBALL
STUDENT GROUPS
GW
PROGRESSIVE UNION
TRANSPORTATION
SAVE
THE WHITEHURST
BIKES
CRITICAL
MASS
DC BICYCLE COURIER
ASSN
WASHINGTON
CYCLE
WOMEN
DC
WEB WOMEN
YOUTH
PEACEOHOLICS
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STREETS
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CLEANUP
WASH PARKS &
PEOPLE
EDUCATION
HIGHER
ACHIEVEMENT
MENTORS
INC
ETHNIC
AFRICAN
AMERICAN HOLIDAY ASSN
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FNDTN
BLACK LUV FESTIVAL
GERMAN-
AMERICAN SOCIETIES
FIRE DEPARTMENT
FIRE
DEPARTMENT
GARDENING
DC
URBAN GARDENERS
MASTER
GARDENERS
GAY, LESBIAN,
BISEXUAL
DC
PRIDE
LESBIAN & GAY JOURNALISTS
PARTNERS METRO DC
POTOMAC
EXEC NETWORK
RAINBOW HISTORY
PRJT
TRIANGLE
ARTISTS GROUP
GOVERNMENT
DC
FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE
GRANTS
WASHINGTON
GRANTMAKERS
HEALTH
WASH
FREE CLINIC
WHITMAN
WALKER CLINIC
HISTORY
CITY
MUSEUM
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASH
NAT MARITIME HERITAGE
FOUNDATION
HOUSING
DC
HOUSING NETWORK
IDEAS &
RELIGION
BUDDHIST
EVENTS
FRIENDS MEETING
OF WASHINGTON 483-3310
JEWISH
COMMUNITY CENTER
WASHINGTON
ETHICAL SOCIETY
WILLIAM PENN HOUSE
IRISH
CELTIC
EVENTS AND GROUPS
IRISH NORTHERN AID COMMMITEE
ITALIAN
FESTA
ITALIANA
JUSTICE
ALLIANCE
OF CONCERNED MEN
OFFICE OF CITIZEN COMPLAINT
REVIEW
POLICE
MONITOR
ROOT FOUNDATION
KOREAN
KOREAN
AMERICAN COALITION DC
LABOR
DC
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
LATINO
COUNCIL
OF LATINO AGENCIES
LATINO HERITAGE CENTER 319-2225
LATINO YOUTH CENTER
LOW INCOME
HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY
MARTHA'S TABLE
WASH
LEGAL CLINIC FOR HOMELESS
WASH
INNERCITY SELF HELP
MEDIA
METRO
CONNECTION - WAMU
MEETING PLACES
JOSEPHINE
BUTLER CTR
MIDEAST
LOVE
THY NEIGHBOR
PETS
DC
DOGS
DC
DOG NEWS
PLANNING
WASH
REGIONAL NTWK
RECREATION
WHIST
& PINOCHLE CLUB
RELIGION
ASSISI
COMMUNITY
INTERFAITH
CONFERENCE
SOCIAL SERVICES
BREAD
FOR THE CITY
DC
CENTRAL KITCHEN
HOUSE OF RUTH
HELPING
INDIVIDUAL PROSTITUTES
SURVIVE
MARTHA'S TABLE
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT
THINK TANKS
DC
FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE
TRANSPORTATION
DC
SEGWAY
METROPED
SAVING THE WHITEHURST
FREEWAY
WALK
DC
WASH
AREA BIKE ASSN
VEGETARIANS
VEGETARIAN
SOCIETY
VEG
DC
VOLUNTEERS
SINGLE
VOLUNTEERS OF DC
WATERFRONT
DC
TALL SHIPS
WEBCAMS
DC
WEBCAMS
YOUTH
METROPOLITAN
POLICE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
YOUTH LAW CENTER
ZOO
FRIENDS
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OTHER
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THE AVALON THEATER
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LUNA
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MIMI'S
POLITICS & PROSE,
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
TEMPERANCE
HALL
TRYST, 2459 18th
St NW, 232-5500
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DC
IMPROV COMEDY CLUB
ECLECTIC
BUSBOYS
AND POETS
MADAM'S ORGAN
FOLK
AFTERWARDS
INTERNATIONAL
MUSIC
KAFFA
HOUSE
ZANZIBAR
IRISH
IRELAND'S
FOUR PROVINCES
IRISH TIMES,
14 F
NW. 543-5433
JAZZ
BLUES
ALLEY
BOHEMIAN
CAVERNS
CAFE TOULOUSE, 2431 18th St NW 238-9018
CHI CHA LOUNGE
COLUMBIA STATION,
2325
18th St NW. 462-6040
FELIX
HR
57
HOT
JAZZ SATURDAY NITE ON WAMU
KENNEDY
CENTER JAZZ CLUB
MR. HENRY'S,
601 Penna.
Ave SE. 546-8412
MR. HENRY'S, 1836 Columbia Road. 797-8882
TAKOMA
STATION
TWINS LOUNGE
UTOPIA
R&B
ZANZIBAR
ROCK
9:30
CLUB
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CULTURAL ALLIANCE
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DC
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ARTS CENTER
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THE ARTS
FLASHPOINT
FOLKLORE
SOCIETY
HUMANITIES
COUNCIL
SOL
Y SOL
WASH PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
ADDISON RIPLEY GALLERY
ANN
LOEB BRONFMAN GALLERY
ANTON
GALLERY
ART ON THE SIDE
ARTS
CLUB OF WASHINGTON
ARTOMATIC
ART OUTLET
A.SALON.LTd
CONNOR CONTEMPORARY
ART
CORCORAN
MUSEUM & SCHOOLOF ART
DC
ARTS CENTER
FOUNDRY
GALLERY
GALLERY
A
GOVINDA GALLLERY
HASLEM
GALLERY
HEMPHILL ARTS
IRVINE
CONTEMPORARY
KATHLEEN
EWING GALLERY
KREEGER
MUSEUM
MARSHA
MATEYKA GALLERY
NAKED
WASHINGTON
NUMARK
GALLERY
PARISH
GALLERY
PHILLIPS
COLLECTION
SPECTRUM GALLERY
TRIANGLE
ARTISTS GROUP
TRANSFORMER
GALLERY
WASHINGTON
ART
WASH
PRINTMAKERS GALLERY
ZENITH GALLERY
CLOGGING
DANCE
NET
DANCE PLACE
SQUARE
DANCING
AVALON
THEATER
CENTER
FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
DC
FILM SOCIETY
DC
INDY FILM FESTIVAL
DC
UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
DOCS
IN PROGRESS
ENVIRONMENTAL
FILMFEST
FILMFEST
GUERRILLA FILM FEST
WASH
INTNL FILM FSTVL
WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO
BIG BAND SOCIETY
CAPITAL
CITY SYMPHONY
CAPITOL HILL CHORAL
CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY
DC
BLUES SOCIETY
DC
BANDS II
DC
FLAMENCO
DC
JAZZ ONLINE
DC
MUSIC TIMELINE
DIFFERENT
DRUMMERS
FOLKLORE
SOCIETY
FLUTE
SOC OF WASH
FRIDAY
MORNING MUSIC CLUB
GAY
MEN'S CHORUS
HISTORIC
U STREET JAZZ
LESBIAN
& GAY CHORUS
NATIONAL
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PERCUSSIVE
ARTS SOCIETY
POTOMAC
RIVER JAZZ CLUB
RECORDER
SOCIETY
SONGWRITERS
ASSN OF WASH
WASH
AREA MUSIC ASSN
WASH
MEN'S CAMARATA
WASH
SWING DANCE COMMITTEE
AFRICAN CONTINUM THEATRE CO
ARENA
STAGE
CHARTER
THEATRE
CHURCH STREET THEATRE
GALA
HISPANIC THEATER
GANYMEDEARTS
HARTKE THEATRE
HOWARD
UNIVERSITY THEATER
IN SERIES
MEAT
& POTATO THEATRE
SHAKESPEARE
THEATRE
STUDIO
THEATRE
TEATRO DE LA LUNA
THEATRE
LAB
VENUS
THEATER
WAREHOUSE THEATER
WOOLLY
MAMMOTH THEATRE
ATLAS
PERFORMING ARTS CTR
DISSIDENT DISPLAY
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CULTUREFLUX
LINES
& STARS
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REVIEW
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POETRY HOUR
BUSBOYS AND POETS
CAFE
MUSE
CREATIVE
FICTION WRITING
DC
POETRY
DC POETS AGAINST THE WAR
DC SLAM
DC WEB WOMEN
DC
WRITERS CORPS
DC WRITERS WAY
GAY BOOK CLUB
GRACE
CHURCH POETRY COFFEEHOUSE
MOTHER TONGUE
NATIONAL
WRITERS UNION
POLITICS & PROSE
WASHINGTON
WRITERS PUBLISHING HOUSE
WASH
STORYTELLERS
WRITERS CENTER
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PROJECT
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DISTRICT
FREEDMENS
BUREAU
.
. . LOCAL
OUTRAGES
DC
GAY HISTORY BLOG
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GW
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY OF WASH
LOST
WASHINGTON
GUIDE
TO HISTORIC SITES
HORYDCZAK
PHOTO COLLECTION
MOORELAND-SPINGARN
CTR
PUNK HISTORY
RAINBOW
HISTORY PRJT OF DC
SEX AND CRIME IN
DC
SITES
ON THE HISTORIC REGISTER
SPEC
COLLECTIONS, GWU
STREETCAR
CITY
WASHINGTON BASEBALL
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WASHINGTON'S
EARLY DAYS
WASH
HISTORY MAGAZINE
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PLACES
WASHINGTONIANA
DIV, DPL
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CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS
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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.
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.
GERMAN DC
INDIAN
DC
IRISH
DC
JEWISH
DC
SHEPHERD,
ALEXANDER
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Law
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Town to Urban Neighborhood: The Georgetown Waterfront
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