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History of Washington, DC:General History
S P E C I A L C O L L E C T I O N S R E S E A R C H C E N T E R
Newspaper Row, 14th Street, NW, between E and F.From the Charles Suddarth Kelly Photographic Collection.
A Guide to Washington, D.C. History Resources in the Special Collections Research Center
Special Collections Research Center Gelman Library, Suite 704 Phone: 202-994-7549 Email: [email protected] http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC
This and other bibliographies can be accessed online at http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC/research-tools/bibliographies-1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ........................................................................ 3
BUSINESS ............................................................................................................. 5
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL ......................................................................... 8
CRIME ................................................................................................................. 8
EARLY PERIOD (PRE-CIVIL WAR)...................................................................... 9
EDUCATION ..................................................................................................... 13
GENERAL .......................................................................................................... 26
MUSIC, DANCE & THEATER ............................................................................ 33
ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS .................................................................. 35
RESEARCH GUIDES .......................................................................................... 38
1968 RIOTS ........................................................................................................ 41
RELIGION .......................................................................................................... 42
SOCIAL HISTORY/MEMOIRS ........................................................................... 47
For additional resources concerning D.C., please refer to our D.C. War & Politics Guide.
DC HISTORY 3
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Anacostia Museum and the Center for African American History and Culture. The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology. Hoboken: J. Wiley, 2005.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.9.D6 B572 2005
Babb, Valerie, Carroll Gibbs and Kathleen Lesko. Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of its Black Community from the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 L47 1991
Corrigan, Mary. A Social Union of Heart and Effort: The African-American Family in the District of Columbia on the Eve of Emancipation. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1996.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.N4 C67 1996a
Gilmore (Brian) Papers, 1978-2008.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2257
Graham, Lawrence. The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Call Number: Special Collections E 664.B865 G73 2006
Green, Constance McLaughlin. The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation’s Capital. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D66 G7 Ref
Greene, Lorenzo and Myra Callis. The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia. Washington: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1931.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.8.G78
Jaffe, Harry. Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections F 216.2.J34 1994
Johnston, Allan. Surviving Freedom: The Black Community of Washington, D.C., 1860-1880. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.2.J6 1980a
DC HISTORY 4
Johnson, Thomas R. The City on the Hill: Race Relations in Washington, D.C., 1865-1885. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.N4 J655 1975a
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1868.
Call Number: Special Collections E 457.15 K26
Kerr, Audrey Elisa. Two Black Washingtons: The Role of Complexion in the Oral History of District of Columbia Residents, 1863-1963. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 K47 1998a
Kofie, Nelson. Race, Class, and the Struggle for Neighborhood in Washington, D.C. New York: Garland, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.N4 K64 1999
Moore, Jacqueline M. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation’s Capital, 1880-1920. Charlottesville: University Press of America, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 M66 1999
Pacheco, Josephine. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 P33 2005
Stone, Elizabeth. Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. M.P. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 S35 1909a
Taulbert, Clifton. Watching our Crops Come In. New York: Viking, 1997.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.N4 T38 1997
Thurber, Bert. The Negro at the Nation’s Capital, 1913-1921. Thesis, Yale, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 T58
Tremain, Mary. Slavery in the District of Columbia: The Policy of Congress and the Struggle for Abolition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 T7
DC HISTORY 5
BUSINESS
Abell, Julie. A Guide to Business History in Washington, D.C. Fairfax: George Mason University, Department of History, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections HF 3163.W3 A23 1998
Ames, William. A History of the National Intelligencer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 4899.W35 N32
Berryman (Clifford K.) Cartoon Collections, 1899-1949.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2024
Carr, Roland. 32 President’s Square. Washington: Acropolis Books, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections HG 2613.W34 R5124
Charyk (Joseph V.) Papers, 1957-1989.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2137
Corcoran and Riggs Partnership Documents, 1840-1848.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2221
Cromwell, Joseph H. The C&P Story: Service in Action. Washington: Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections HE 8846.C4765 C76
Danzansky (Joseph) Papers, 1968-1989.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2059
DeGraff, Jon. Radio, Money, and Politics: The Struggle to Establish WPFW-FM, the Pacifica Foundation’s Black-Oriented Washington Station. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 1991.8.A35 D447 1995b
Diamond, Norman. A Practice Almost Perfect: The Early Days at Arnold, Fortas & Porter. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.
Call Number: Special Collections KF 355.W27 D53 1997
DC HISTORY 6
Duryee, Sacket. A Historical Summary of the Work of the Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. and Vicinity, 1852-1952. Washington: Corps of Engineers, 1952.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.A1 D87 1952a
Elfenbein, Jessica and William Becker. Civics, Commerce and Community: The History of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, 1889-1989. Washington: Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington University, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections HF 296.W3 E43 1989
Fleming, Peggy and Joanne Zich. Small Town in the Big City: The Shopkeepers and Business Community of Chevy Chase, Washington, DC at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Washington: Three Sisters Press, 2005.
Call Number: Special Collections HF 5068.W3 F55 2005
Greater Washington Board of Trade Records, 1889-1986.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2029
Harrigan, Robert. Paper Mills and a Nation’s Capital. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections TS 1095.U6 H38 1995
A History of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of the District of Columbia, Inc., 1927 through 1948. Washington: s.n., 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 6054.2.U62 W37 1949
King, LeRoy O. 100 Years of Capital Traction: The Story of Streetcars in the Nation's Capital. College Park: Taylor Publishing Company, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections HE 4491.W37 K55
Lusk (Rufus S.) & Son, Inc. Records, 1930-1997.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2189
Moldow, Gloria. Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Call Number: Special Collections R 692.M6 1987
Morton (Jack) Papers, 1938-1993.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2044
DC HISTORY 7
National Intelligencer Newspaper Collection, 1804-1844.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2128
Pfanstiehl (Cody) Papers, 1967-1982.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2016
PNC-Riggs Bank Records, 1809-1998.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2213
Pretzer, William. The Printers of Washington, D.C., 1800-1880: Work Culture, Technology, and Trade Unionism. Ph.D. Thesis, Northern Illinois University, 1986.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 231.P73
Schrag, Zachary. The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Call Number: Special Collections HE 4491.W44 W376 2006
Sweet, Robert. Selected Correspondence of the Banking Firm of Corcoran & Riggs, 1844-1858: Showing the Emergence of Washington as a Financial Center. Ph.D. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections HG 2613.W34 C67 1982a
Riggs Family Papers, 1672-1987.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2239
Solomon (Samuel J.) Papers, 1932-1964.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2029
Washington Gas Light Company. Growing with Washington: The Story of Our First 100 Years, 1848-1948. Washington: s.n., 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections TP 725.W3 W35
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metro History Project Collection, 1930-1984.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2034
The Washington Star’s First 100 Years in the Nation’s Capital. Washington: The Washington Star, 1952.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 4899.W3 W37 1952 f
DC HISTORY 8
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Association Records, 1800-1999.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2027
Coale, James. Report to the Stockholders on the Completion of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal to Cumberland, with a Sketch of the Potomac Company, and a General Outline of the History of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co., from its Origin to February, 1851. Frederick: D. Schley and T. Haller, 1851.
Call Number: Special Collections TC 625.C5 A13 1851
Crowder (Orville) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Collections, 1927-1997.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2152
Durham (Jack) Papers, 1850-1985.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2053
Meseck (Walter L.) Papers, 1967-1995.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2076
Paull (Joan) Papers, 1972-1992.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2038
Thomas Hahn Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Collection, 1939-1993.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2020
CRIME
Alfers, Kenneth G. Law and Order in the Capital City: A History of the Washington Police, 1800-1886. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4 no.5
Count-van Manen, Gloria. Crime and Suicide in the Nation’s Capital: Toward Macro-historical Perspectives. New York: Praeger, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 6795.W3 C68
DC HISTORY 9
Easby-Smith, James. The Department of Justice: Its History and Functions. Washington: W. H. Lowdermilk & Company, 1904.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 873.E28
Kramer, Neil. Half a Century Past Midnight: The Life and Times of Judge William Cranch. Ph.D. Thesis, Claremont Graduate School, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections KF 368.C72 K72 1978a
Lomax, Virginia. The Old Capitol and its Inmates. By a Lady Who Enjoyed the Hospitalities of the Government for a “Season.” New York: E.J. Hale & Son, 1867.
Call Number: Special Collections E 615.L83
Morris, Jeffrey. Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections KF 8750.5.M67 2001
Oakey, Mary. Journey from the Gallows: Historical Evolution of the Penal Philosophies and Practices in the Nation’s Capital. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 9955.D6 O15 1988
Thornton, Mary. A Complete Guide to the History and Inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary, District of Columbia, 1829-1862. Bowie: Heritage Books, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 9474.P38 T56 2003
EARLY PERIOD (PRE-CIVIL WAR)
Adkins, Milton. The Oldest House in Washington. Boston: New England Magazine Co., 1891.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.A34 1891
Alvord, Thomas Gold. The Sacking of Washington. Boston: National Magazine, 1899.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 A49 1890
Arnebeck, Bob. Through a Fiery Trial: Building Washington, 1790-1800. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.A76 1991
DC HISTORY 10
Barnard-Talcott Hollerith Family Papers, 1790-1858.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2088
Bowling, Kenneth R. The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capitol. Fairfax, Virginia: George Mason University Press, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.B69 1991
Bowling, Kenneth R. Creating the Federal City, 1774-1800. Washington: American Institute of Architects Press, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.C2 B66 1988
Bowling, Kenneth. Peter Charles L’Enfant: Vision, Honor, and Male Friendship in the Early American Republic. Washington: George Washington University, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.B68 2002
Brown, Letitia Woods. Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 B69
The Capture of Washington by the English, 1814. London: Stock, 1897.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 C82 1897
Douty, Esther and Louis Cary. Mr. Jefferson’s Washington. Champaign: Garrard Pub. Co., 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.3.D6
Davis, Madison. An Almost Forgotten Battle. Washington: Records of the Past Exploration Society, 1910.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 D38 1910
Elliot, Jonathan. Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square Forming the District of Columbia. Washington: J. Elliot, Jr., 1830.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.E46
Everett, Edward. Eighteen Hundred Fourteen. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.E93 1873
DC HISTORY 11
Faehtz, E. F. M. and F.W. Pratt. Washington in Embryo; or The National Capital from 1791 to 1800. The Origin of All Rights and Titles to Property in Washington, D.C, an Exhaustive Manual for Researches into the Derivation of Titles. Containing All the Original Squares and Lots Laid Out at the Foundation of Said City…Washington: s.n., 1874.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.F14 f
Gahn, Bessie. Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700. Silver Spring: Westland, 1936.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.G25
Gillette, Howard, et al. Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.S68 1995
Hardin, James. “A Study of L’Enfant’s Plan for the City of Washington.” In The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Vol. 36, No. 3 (Summer 1979).
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.S78
Harrold, Stanley. Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 H27 2003
Harzbecker, Joseph John. Life and Death in Washington, D.C.: An Analysis of the Mortality Census Data of 1850. M.A. Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections HB 1355.D6 H37 1999a
Humphrey, Robert Lee. Ancient Washington: American Indian Cultures of the Potomac Valley. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4 no. 6
Hynson, Jerry M. District of Columbia, D.C. Department of Corrections Runaway Slave Book, 1848-1863. Westminster: Willow Bend Books, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 H96 1999
Jefferson, Thomas, et. al. Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence Exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L’Enfant, Ellicott, Hallet, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and Others, Relating to the Founding, Surveying, Planning, Designing, Constructing, and Administering of the City of Washington, 1783-1818. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.3.J4
DC HISTORY 12
King, Horatio. The Battle of Bladensburg: Burning of Washington in 1814. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1885.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.B5 K55 1885
Kite, Elizabeth Sarah. L'Enfant and Washington, 1791-1792: Published and Unpublished Documents Now Brought Together for the First Time. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929.
Call Number: Special Collections F195.K62 1970
Kochka, Mary. Washington: Its Early Days and Early Ways. New York: Scribner, 1928.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.K76
Lord, Walter. The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: Norton, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections E 354.L85
Mackall, Sally. Early Days of Washington. Sterling: G.E. Bishop, 1934.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 M2 1934
M’Kim, J. Miller. A Sketch of the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia: Contained in Two Letters. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh and Allegheny Anti-Slavery Society, 1838.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 M32
Morales Vazquez, Rubil. Monuments, Markets, and Manners: The Making of the City of Washington, 1783-1837. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.M66 1999a
Morrison, Alfred J. The District in the XVIIIth Century. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.M87
Pitch, Anthony. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 P49 1998
Russell, Hilary. Final Research Report: The Operation of the Underground Railroad in Washington, D.C., 1800-1860. s.l.: s.n., 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections E 450.R87 2001
DC HISTORY 13
Schmidt, Lorraine H. Washington: The Design of the Federal City. Washington: National Archives, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.S35
Spofford, Ainsworth. The Founding of Washington City, with Some Considerations on the Origin of Cities and Location of National Capitals. Baltimore: J. Murphy & Co., 1881.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.S66 1881
Senning, Elizabeth Stone. Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. M.P. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 S35 1909a
Shuster, Ernest A. The Original Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.S58 1909
Stahl, John Meloy. The Invasion of the City of Washington: A Disagreeable Study in and of Military Unpreparedness. Argos: The Van Trump Company, 1918.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 S8
Sung, Carolyn. Catharine Mitchill’s Letters from Washington, 1806-1812. Washington: Library of Congress, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.M57 1977
Thatcher, Erastus. Founding of Washington City: History of the Acquirement of its Territory in 1791, Division by Streets and Avenues into Reservations, Squares, etc... Washington: Law Reporter Company, 1891.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.T36
Warner, William W. At Peace With All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 1418.W18 W37 1994
EDUCATION
21st Century School Fund. Replace or Modernize?: The Future of the District of Columbia’s Endangered Old and Historic Public Schools. Washington: 21st Century School Fund, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 3218.D6 R46 2001
DC HISTORY 14
Ahern, Patrick. The Catholic University of America, 1887-1896. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 835 1887.A5
An Act to Fix and Regulate the Salaries of Teachers, School Officers, and Other Employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2842.U54 1906
Announcement and Catalogue of the National Medical College of the Columbian University, Washington, D.C. Washington: M’Gill & Witherow, 1873-1899.
Call Number: Special Collections R 747.G3 N37
Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Public Schools. Washington: Board of Aldermen, 1869-1870.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B3
Aven, James. Washington Integrated Secondary Education Project: Progress Report. Washington: George Washington University, School of Education, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A93
Ballou, Frank. What the Washington Schools are doing and what they should be doing in the Solution of the Youth Problem. Washington: s.n., 1940.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.B34 1940
Benjamin Franklin University Records, 1925-1994.
Call Number: Special Collections RG 116
Blauch, Lloyd. Public Education in the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.
Call Number: Special Collections L 111.A93 no. 15
By-laws, Rules, Regulations, and Selected Statutes for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Washington: The Board, 1926.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2801.D6 D57 1926
Cameron, S.T., E.B. Henderson and C.R. Thompson. Piney Branch Citizens’ Association Against Muzzey’s School History: Brief for the Association. Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1923.
Call Number: Special Collections E 175.8.P65 1923
DC HISTORY 15
Collier, William. George Washington’s Will and George Washington University. Washington: George Washington University, 1918.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1907.A12 v. 98
Courses of Study in the High and Manual Training Schools, Washington, D.C. Washington: The Board, 1907.
Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 366
Dabney, Lillian Gertrude. The History of Schools for Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1807-1947. Washington: Catholic University Press, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 2802.D65 D3
Dailey, John. Evaluation of the Contribution of Special Programs in the Washington, D.C. Schools to the Prediction and Prevention of Delinquency. Washington: George Washington University, Education Research Project, 1966.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 9105.D6 D3
Dailey, John and Clinton Neyman. Evaluation of ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columba, 1966 and 1967: Technical Report. Washington: Education Research Project, George Washington University, 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 D31
Dailey, John and Clinton Neyman. Evaluation of ESEA Title I, Program for the District of Columbia, Summer 1968: Final Report. Washington: Education Research Project, George Washington University, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 D32
Dailey, John and Clinton Neyman. Research on Evaluation of Programs in the Model School Division: Final Report. Washington: Education Research Project, George Washington University, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2154.W3 D34 1968
Davis, Melvin. The Self-Perceived Administrative Styles of the Deans of the Consortium of Universities of Washington, D.C. Ed.D. Thesis, American University, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2341.D38 1981a
DC HISTORY 16
Dilworth, Mary. An Examination of Precipitants in the Decision to Merge the District of Columbia Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Ed.D. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1675.D54 1981a
Diner, Steven J. Crisis in Confidence: The Reputation of Washington's Public Schools in the Twentieth Century. Washington: Department of Urban Studies, University of the District of Columbia, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.D48 1982
Diner, Steven J. The Governance of Education in the District of Columbia: An Historical Analysis of Current Issues. Washington: Department of Urban Studies, University of the District of Columbia, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2817.D46 1982
The District of Columbia Board of Education. Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools. Washington: various publishers. SPEC has: 1851, 1852, 1864-73, 1879-80, 1887-88, 1894-97.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B12
The District of Columbia Board of Education. Report of the Board of Education to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Washington: GPO. SPEC has: 1874-79, 1885-89, 1890-91, 1893-94, 1897-99, 1900-01, 1920-32.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B13
The District of Columbia Board of Education. Report of the Board of Education to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Washington: GPO. SPEC has: 1901-03, 1904-06, 1907-09, 1914-18.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B14
District of Columbia Public Postsecondary Education Act: Report. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 256.5.U545 1974
District of Columbia Public Postsecondary Education Act: Report by the Committee on the District of Columbia Together with Additional and Dissenting Views. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 256.5.U54 1974
DC HISTORY 17
The District of Columbia White House Conference on Education. Washington: s.n., 1955.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.G5 D5 1955
Division of Continuing Education Records, 1937-1999.
Call Number: Special Collections RG0016
Drew, Joseph. Recurring Themes of Education Finance in the History of Washington, D.C.: An Echo, Not a Choice. Washington: Dept of Urban studies, University of the District of Columbia, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.5.W3 D73
Federal Schoolmen’s Club. Half a Century and a Little More of the Federal Schoolmen’s Club, Washington D.C. Final Edition of the Fiftieth Anniversary History. Washington: The Club, 1959.
Call Number: Special Collections L 13.F43 F43 1959
Federal Schoolmen's Club. Official History, Federal Schoolmen's Club, Washington, D.C.: 50th Anniversary. Washington: The Club, 1957.
Call Number: Special Collections L 13.F43 F43 1957
Fitzgerald, Regina. A Survey of the Resources in the Washington Area for the Education of School Administrators. s.l.: Cooperative Program in Educational Administration, Middle Atlantic Region, 1954.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2805.5.F57
Gallinger, Jacob. Statistics Relating to Public Schools: December 19, 1905: Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and Ordered to be Printed. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2842.U54 1905
Geiger, Gary. An Assessment of the District of Columbia Public Schools’ Administrators’ Leadership Training Academy. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland at College Park, 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2831.824.D5 G43 1990a
The George Washington University and the District of Columbia. Washington: George Washington University, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1928.G38 2003
DC HISTORY 18
Hansen, Carl. The Amidon Elementary School: A Successful Demonstration in Basic Education. Englewood: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 7501.W3 A553 1963
Harris, William Torrey. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting a Report of the Commissioner of Education upon the Condition of Public Schools in the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.U54 1892
Hobson, Julius. The Damned Children: A Layman’s Guide to Forcing Change in Public Education. Washington: Washington Institute for Quality Education, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 4092.D6 H6
Hodgkins, George. Educational Associations at the National Capital. Washington: Columbia Historical Society of Washington, 1966.
Call Number: Special Collections L 13.N49 H63 1966
Houston, Clark. A Study of the Implementation of the J. Skelly Wright Decision and the Perceptions of a Selected Group of Community Leaders of the District of Columbia Toward the Implementation of the J. Skelly Wright Decision. Ph.D. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 214.23.W3 H68 1974a
Howard, Clifford. Washington as a Center of Learning. Washington: Johnson-Wynne Co., 1904.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.H84
In the Senate of the United States…Mr. Brown Made the Following Report (to Accompany Bill S. 191). Washington: s.n., 1858.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A58 1858
Inventory and Appraisal of University Activities in Urban Social/Minority Group Problem Areas. Washington: George Washington University, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1931.G392
Investigation of Public School Conditions: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Public School Standards and Conditions and Juvenile Delinquency in the District of Columbia of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A52
DC HISTORY 19
Investigation of Public School Conditions: Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate Public School Standards and Conditions and Juvenile Delinquency in the District of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A53
Jacobson, Elden. Higher Education and Urban Affairs: An Approach for Metropolitan Washington. Washington: Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, 1969.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 5115.J32
Johansen, Mary Carroll. “Female Instruction and Improvement”: Education for Women in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1785-1835. Ph.D. Thesis, College of William and Mary, 1996.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 1758.M3 J64 1996a
Johns-Gibson, Janette. Factors for Effective School Leadership: A Case Study of Floretta Dukes-McKenzie and the Washington, D.C. Public Schools 1981-1988. Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2831.824.D5 J64 2000a
Johnson, Andrea Lynn. Exploring Partnerships Between Professional Arts Organizations and the District of Columbia Public School System. M.A. Thesis, American University, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections MT3.U5 J64 2001a
Katz, Douglas. The Post-High school Achievements of Inner-City Youth: A Follow-UP Study of Graduates of the Washington, D.C., Public Schools. Ph.D. Thesis, North Carolina State University, 1975.
Call Numbers: Special Collections LA 255.K37 1975a
Kayser, Elmer Louis. Columbian Academy, 1821-1897: The Preparatory Department of Columbian College of the District of Columbia. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1929.K38
Kayser, Elmer Louis. Columbian Academy: The Columbian Preparatory of Washington, D.C. Washington: Columbia Historical Society 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1929.K379
DC HISTORY 20
Knox, Ellis. Democracy and the District of Columbia Public Schools: A Study of Recently Integrated Public Schools. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1957.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.K6
Letter of the Secretary of the Interior: Communicating, in Compliance with the Resolution of the Senate of the 8th of December, 1870, the Reports of the Board of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and Georgetown. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1871.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 2803.W3 U54 1871
Lindo, Mamie Holloway. History of Special Education in the District of Columbia Public Schools Prior to the Waddy Decree of August 1, 1972. Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections AS 36.G3 1974
Lovelace, Neil and John Frost. A Guide to Facilities for Research in Education in Washington. Washington: s.n., 1947.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 732.D62 L6
MacKaye, William R. and Mary Anne MacKaye. Mr. Sidwell's School: A Centennial History, 1883-1983. Washington: The Sidwell Friends School, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 4931.S82 M34 1983
Madison, Virgie. A Study of Parent Perceptions Regarding Services Provided in Head Start Programs in Washington, D.C. s.l.: s.n., 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections AS 36.G3 1976
Manual of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of Washington City. Washington: The Board, 1863.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2801.D6 1863
Manual for Teachers of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2801.D6 1932
Merrill, George Raymond. An Analysis of Prescriptive Curriculum Legislation for the District of Columbia School System, 1886. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, 1964.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.M47 1964a
DC HISTORY 21
Mikhalevsky, Nina. Dear Daughters: A History of Mount Vernon Seminary and College. Washington: Mount Vernon Seminary and College Alumnae Association, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 3561.M868 M54 2001
Miller, Stephen. The Emergence of Comprehensive Public Higher Education in the District of Columbia. Ph.D. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1771.F465 M54 1970a
Moone, James. The Problem of Designing an African American Studies Program in U.S. Public Schools: The Challenge for New Directions: “A Case Study of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools 1969-1974.” Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections E 184.7.M66 1976a
Moore, Ettyce. Community Participation in Relation to the Program and Structure of the Public Schools of the District of Columba 1964-1974. Ed.D. Thesis, American University, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.M66 1975a
Mullaly, Columba. Trinity College, Washington, D.C.: The First Eighty Years, 1897-1977. Westminster: Christian Classics, 1987.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 7251.W385 M84 1987
Nelson, Bernard Hamilton. Miner Teachers College, The First Century, 1851-1951: Biography of a School. Washington: District of Columbia Teachers College, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 1849.W37 N44
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, 1967-68: Final Report. Washington: U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1969.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2828.D6 N4
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, 1968-69: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1969.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N41
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, 1969-70: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N411
DC HISTORY 22
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, 1970-71: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1971.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N413
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, 1971-72: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N415
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, Summer 1970: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N412
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program for the District of Columbia, Summer 1971: Final Report. Washington: Social Research Group, George Washington University, 1971.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N414
Neyman, Clinton. Evaluation of the Kenilworth Neighborhood Summer Program, 1968: An ESEA Title II Project of the District of Columbia: Final Report. Washington: Education Research Project, George Washington University, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2826.D6 N42
Neyman, Clinton. Longitudinal study of the Educationally Disadvantaged Students in the District of Columbia Public Schools, 1966-1972. Washington: Education Division, Social Research Group, The George Washington University, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 4093.W3 N4
The Orange and Blue: Yearbook. Washington: The School, 1915.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 7501.W36 O72
Osborn (Ruth) Papers, 1957-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2278
Page, Thornell. A Study of the District of Columbia Public Schools Desegregation Policies, 1954-1967. Ed.D. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 214.23.W3 P34 1978a
DC HISTORY 23
Public Schools of the District of Columbia. The Charles Sumner School: Rededication. Washington: D.C. Public Schools, 1886.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.C53 1986
Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee of the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session, Relative to the Building Program. May 5, 6, 13, 1921…Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 3218.D6 A35 1921a
Published Material about Education and Community Life Collection, 1965-2003.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2206
Quigley, Martin. A Study of the Political Dimension of Private Higher Education: Government Relations of Five Universities and a Consortium in Washington, D.C. Ed.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.Q53 1975a
Racine, Marie. Influences on Curriculum Development in the Public Schools of Washington, D.C., 1804-1982. Washington: Department of Urban Studies, University of the District of Columbia, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.R32
Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872.
Call Number: Special Collections Microform, E 185.93.D6 U54
Reorganization of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia Congress of the United States, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Secon Session, Relative to Schools and Playgrounds in the District of Columbia, December 16, 1921, and January 9, 19, 27, February 10 and 17, 1922. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.C5 1922
Reorganization of the Schools of the District of Columbia: Report of the Subcommittee Submitted to the Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the District of Columbia Relative to the Reorganization of the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.U54 1923
DC HISTORY 24
Report of the Board of Education: School Achievements in Twenty Years. Washington: The Board, 1941.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A2 1941
Report of the Committee on Public Schools of Washington Chamber of Commerce, Suggesting Objection to the Dolliver Bill, S. 4032 and the Burleson Bill, H.R. 10520. Washington: Sudwarth Printing Co., 1908.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2802.W27
The Report: The Superintender’s Report to the Board of Education, School Year…Washington: Communications Branch, D.C. Public Schools, 1983-1990.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A2
Richards, Zalmon. A History of the little “Onpleasantness” in the Public Schools of Washington, D.C. from June 1, 1869, to June 24, 1870. Washington: s.n., 19--.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B3 1900z
Richey, Alice Molyneux. History of the Night Schools of the District of Columbia. M.A. Thesis, George Washington University, 1944.
Call Number: Special Collections 2671
Rigon-Valdez, Esperanza. Case Studies of the Function of the Office of the Academic Dean in Selected Colleges in the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland. Ed.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1961.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2341.6.D6 R53 1961a
Roe, Donald. The Struggle for Quality Education: The Desegregation of the District of Columbia Public School System, 1947-1962. Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 214.23.W3 R64 1994a
Ruediger, William. The Principles of Education: Washington, D.C.: Typescript, 1909. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1910.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 875.R8 1910
Ruediger, William. The Principles of Teaching: Washington, D.C.: Typescript, 1915. s.l.: s.n., 1915.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 1025.R79 1915
DC HISTORY 25
Rules for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Washington: s.n., 1961.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2801.D6 D58 1961
Rules for the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Effective July 1, 1949 with Revisions as Noted. Washington: The Board, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections LB 2801.D6 D58 1949
Sherburne, Mary. The Cardozo Model School District: A Peach Tree Grows on T Street. Newton: Education Development Center 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 2771.S54
Silver, Catherine. Black Teachers in Urban Schools: The Case of Washington, D.C. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 2803.W3 S54
Smith, John. Biographical Directory of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Washington: District of Columbia Office of the Statistician, 1953.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.S64 1953
Smith (William L. Papers), 1946-2008.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2258
Stevens on Stevens: A Community Perspective: An Oral History of Stevens School. Washington: Stevens Elementary School, 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 7501.W3 S73 1984
Stewart, William. Public Schools of the District of Columbia…Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.B5 1900
Stickney Pamphlets. Call Number: Special Collections AC4.S74 v.39 Strayer, George. The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Conducted under the Auspices of the Chairmen of the Subcommittees on District of Columbia Appropriations of the Respective Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.S75
DC HISTORY 26
Teaching of Communism in Public Schools of the District of Columbia. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10391 and H.R. 11375. February 25, March 2 and 9, 1936. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936.
Call Number: Special Collections L 134.C5 1936
Together--: The Special Education/Early Childhood Program, the George Washington University, a Three Year Report, 1977-1980. Washington: George Washington University, Department of Special Education, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 4019.G446 1981
Trachtenberg, Stephen. The George Washington University: The Progress of an Adaptive University: 1821-1996. New York: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1996.
Call Number: Special Collections LD 1928.T73 1996
GENERAL
Aikman, Lonnelle. We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol, its Past and its Promise. Washington: United States Capitol Historical Society, 1963.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.C2 A45
Anderson, Elizabeth. Historical Archaeological Reconnaissance and Assessment, Barry’s Farm, Washington, D.C. Wilmington: Wilmington Culture Resources Branch Earth Systems Division, Soil Systems, Inc., 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.A5 H57 1981
Atwater, Maxine. Capital Tales: True Stories about Washington’s Heroes, Villains & Belles. Bethesda: Mercury Press, 1996.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.A88 1996
Bealle, Morris. The Washington Senators, an 87-Year History of the World’s Oldest Baseball Club and Most Incurable Fandom. Washington: Columbia Pub. Co., 1947.
Call Number: Special Collections GV 875.W3 B42 1947
Benedetto, Robert. Historical Dictionary of Washington, D.C. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections F 192.B46 2003
DC HISTORY 27
Benjamin, Marcus. Braddock’s Rock: A Study in Local History. Washington: s.n., 1899.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.4.B7 B4
Briggs, Shirley. Washington, City in the Woods. Washington: s.n., 1954.
Call Number: Special Collections SB 483.W3 A8
Brodhead, Davis. History of the Location of Our National Capital. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1884.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.B75 1884
Brownstein, Elizabeth. Lincoln’s Other White House. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Call Number: Special Collections E 457.64.B76 2005 Bryan, W.B. A History of the National Capitol from its Formation through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.B9
Burkett, Elmer. History of the Congressional Cemetery: December 6, 1906. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.1.C7 U54 1906
Caemmerer, Hans. Historic Washington: Capital of the Nation. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.C17
Caemmerer, Hans. A Manual on the Origin and Development of Washington. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.C182
Ceresi, Frank, Carol McMains, and Mark Rucker. Baseball in Washington, D.C. Charleston: Arcadia Pub., 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections GV 863.W18 C47 2002
Clark, Elizabeth. Reports of the Chronicler from Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1951-1961. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.C55
DC HISTORY 28
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. First Freed: Washington, D.C. in the Emancipation Era. Washington: Howard University Press, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections E 445.D6 F57 2002
Conaway, James. America’s Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 733.U6 C595 2000
Cox, Richard. Documenting the District’s History: A Report and Evaluation of the Acquisitions Policies of the Non-Federal Historical Records Repositories of the District of Columbia. Lanham: Rhoads Associates International, 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections CD 3161.C69 1984
Diner, Steven. A History of the District of Columbia, Unit VII, the Center of a Metropolis, Washington since 1954. Washington: Associates for Renewal in Education, 1979.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.D55 1979
Evelyn, Douglas E. On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C. Washington: Farragut Publishing Company, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections F 192.3.E84 1992
Furer, Howard B., ed. Washington: A Chronological and Documentary History, 1790-1970. Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publishing, Inc., 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.F87
Furman, Bess. Washington By-Line, the Personal History of a Newspaper Woman. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 4874.F8 A3
Green (Constance) Papers.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2118
Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962-63.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G7
Gutheim, Frederick. The Federal City: Plans & Realities: The History. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections NA 9127.W2 G87
DC HISTORY 29
Highsmith, Carol and Ted Landphair. Washington, D.C. New York: Crescent Books, 1997.
Call Number: Special Collections F 192.3.H53 1997
Hinsley, Curtis. The Development of a Profession, Anthropology in Washington, D.C., 1846-1903. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections GN 308.3.U6 H56 1976a
Holt, Thomas. A Special Mission: The Story of Freedmen’s Hospital, 1862-1962. Washington: Academic Affairs Division, Howard University, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections RA 982.W3 F864
Houck, Jeanne. Written in Stone: Historical Memory and the Mall in Washington, D.C., 1865-1945. Ph.D. Thesis, New York University, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.5.M2 H67 1993a
Karp, Melvin. Washington, D.C.: City of Many Dreams. New York: Crescent Books, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.K37 1983
Lewis, David. District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.L48
Longstreth, Richard. The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections N 386.U5 S78 v. 30
Mahoney, Maurice. Report of the Chronicler of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1966-1968. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.M3
Melder, Keith, et al. City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of the District of Columbia. Washington: Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc., 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.C57 1983
Mitchell, Alexander. Washington, D.C. Then & Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.M58 2000
DC HISTORY 30
Moore, Charles. Washington, Past and Present. New York: The Century Company, 1929.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.M812
Moore, John. Speaking of Washington: Facts, Firsts, and Folklore. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections E 183.M78 1993
National Cherry Blossom Festival Records, 1909-2000.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2046
Nicolay, Helen. Our Capital on the Potomac. New York: The Century Co., 1924.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.N64
Overbeck (Ruth Ann) Papers, 1930-1999.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2032
Page, Thomas. Washington and its Romance. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.P13
Penczer, Peter. Washington, D.C., Past and Present. Arlington: Oneonta Press, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.P44 1998
Phillips, Philip Lee. The Beginnings of Washington, as Described in Books, Maps and Views. Washington: privately published, 1917.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.P56 f
Pitch, Anthony. Exclusively Washington Trivia. Washington: Mino Publications, 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.5.P57 1984
Proctor, John Clagett. Washington, Past and Present: A History. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1930-32.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.P961
Property Agreements, Washington, DC, 1809-1935.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2090
DC HISTORY 31
Records of the Columbian Historical Society. Washington: The Society, 1895-1989. 52 volumes (with indices).
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.C72
Reps, John. Washington on View: The Nation’s Capital Since 1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.R34 1991 f
Rimensnyder, Nelson. Rhodes Tavern: Initiative 11, a History. Washington: U.S. House of Representatives, 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.B52 no. 5
Romer, Frank. The History of Harvey’s: As Related by Harvey Host, Julius Lulley, and Given Taste Titillating Tempo in Text. Washington: s.n., 1958.
Call Number: Special Collections TX 945.5.H37 R6 1958
Shannon, John. Index to “The Rambler,” a Series of Articles by J. Harry Shannon on Washington and Vicinity Published in the Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., over a Period of Years between 1912-1927. Washington: s.n., 1947.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.W33 1947
Shaw, Albert. A Hundred Years of the District of Columbia. New York: Review of Reviews, 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.S52 1900
Shivers, Frank. Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1985.
Call Number: Special Collections PS 266.M3 S45 1985
Sluby, Paul. Rosemont Cemetery (Formerly Moore’s Cemetery), Washington, DC. Washington: Columbian Harmony Society, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.S5828 1993
Smith, Kathryn. A History of the District of Columbia. Washington: Associations for Renewal in Education, Inc., 1979.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.3.S63 1979
DC HISTORY 32
Snyder, Brad. Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections GV 875.H59 S69 2003
Soil Systems, Inc. Archaeological Investigations on the Washington, D.C. Civic Center Site. Washington: Historic Preservation Office, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.A72
Spandorf, Lily. Lily Spandorf’s Washington Never More. Washington: Grew Publishing Col, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.A1 S62 1988 f
Spofford, Ainsworth. The Coming of the White Man, and the Founding of the National Capital. Washington: Washington Academy of Sciences, 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.S65 1900
Stevens, William Oliver. Washington: The Cinderella City. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.S75
Tindall, William and Charles Kelly. Standard History of the City of Washington from a Study of the Original Sources. Knoxville: H.W. Crew & Co., 1914.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T64
Todd, Charles. The Story of Washington, the National Capital. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T68
Townsend, George. Historic Sketches at Washington: Containing a Full Record of the Origin and Early History of Washington City and its Founders, Together with a Detailed Account of its Growth, its Public Buildings, the Style and Extravagance of Living There, and a Description of the Inside Workings of the Lobby, and the Various Departments of the Government. Hartford: Jas. Betts & Co., 1877.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T6 H5
Townsend, George. Washington, Outside and Inside. A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Excellencies, Abuses, Beauties, and Personages of Our Governing City. Hartford: James Betts & Co., 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T742
DC HISTORY 33
Washington Condensed: Five Thousand Facts for Ready Reference: Map, Guide, History, Directory. Washington: Bert S. Elliot, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.W323 1909
Washington, D.C., City and Capital. Washington: District of Columbia Government, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.5.W37 1970
Washington History: Magazine of the Historical Society of Washington. Washington: The Society, 1989-.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.C72
Wharton, Anne. Washington: A Predestined Capital. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.W72 1901
Wright, Carroll. The Economic Development of the District of Columbia. Washington: The Academy, 1899.
Call Number: Special Collections HC 107.W3 W75
Wright (William Lloyd) Papers, 1786-1949.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2075
MUSIC, DANCE & THEATER
Andersen, Mark and Mark Jenkins. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 3534.A643 2001
Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. and Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company Records, 1988-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2030
Hunt (Dianne) Papers, 1976-1995.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2143
Kirk, Elise. Music at the White House: A History of the American Spirit. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 200.8.W3 K57 1986
DC HISTORY 34
Kohler, Sue. The Commission of Fine Arts, a Brief History, 1910-1976. Washington: The Commission of Fine Arts, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections N 6530.D6 A5
Kohler, Sue. The Commission of Fine Arts, a Brief History, 1910-1976. Second Edition. Washington: The Commission, 1985.
Call Number: Special Collections NA 735.W3 K642 1985
Lee, Douglas, Roger Meersman, and Donn Murphy. Stage for a Nation: The National Theatre, 150 Years. Lanham: University Press of America, 1985.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 2277.W22 N384 1985
Lornell, Kip and Charles Stephenson. The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 3527.84.L67 2009
Maslon, Laurence and Cynthia Burns. The Arena Adventure: The First 40 Years. Washington: Arena Stage, 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 2277.W22 A7 336 1990 f
Metropolitan Dance Association Records.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2098
Preston, Katherine. Music for Hire: A Study of Professional Musicians in Washington, 1877-1900. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 419.P76 P7 1992
A Short History of the National Symphony Orchestra. Washington: The Association, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections MT 4.W3 N3
Spanish Dance Society USA Chapter Records, 1982-1993.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2039
St. Mark’s Dance Company and Studio, 1950-1994.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2004
DC HISTORY 35
Washington Theater Club Records, 1952-1983.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2061
Wentworth Family Papers, 1902-1926.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2116
ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
Aero Club of Washington (D.C.). Organization, Membership, History. Washington: Aero Club of Washington, 1910.
Call Number: Special Collections TL 501.A28
American Association of Political Consultants Interview Collection, 1997-1999.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2100
American Veterans Committee Records, 1942-2002.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2144
Berkowitz, Edward. To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine. Washington: National Academy Press, 1998.
Call Number: RA 11.B47 1998
Berkowitz, Edward and Wendy Wolff. Group Health Association: A Portrait of a Health Maintenance Organization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections RA 413.3.G69 B47 1988
Booth, Windsor, Gregory Platts and James Symington. Crop Reports 1973-2000 and Early Alfalfa Club History. Washington: Alfalfa Club, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections HS 2752.W3 A625 2002
Bushong, William, Julie Mueller and Judith Robinson. A Centennial History of the Washington Chapter, the American Institute of Architects, 1887-1987. Washington: Washingotn Architectural Foundation Press, 1987.
Call Number: Special Collections NA 11.B87 1987
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Pamphlet and Microfilm Collections, 1817-1950.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2110
DC HISTORY 36
Cassedy, J. The Fireman’s Record: As Gleaned from All Available Sources of the History of the District of Columbia from its Earliest Incipiency, to the Present Time, Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries. Baltimore: Wm. U. Day, 1893.
Call Number: Special Collections TH 9505.W3 C3
Citizens Committee to Save Historic Rhodes Tavern Papers, 1970-1986.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2084
Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia Records, 1951-1994.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2078
Cobb, W. Montague. The First Negro Medical Society: A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia, 1884-1939. Washington: The Associated Publishers, 1939.
Call Number: Special Collections WB 1 AD6 M45C 1939
Cole, John. Capital Libraries and Librarians: A Brief History of the District of Columbia Library Association, 1894-1994. Washington: Library of Congress, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 673.D62 C65 1994
Committee of 100 on the Federal City Records [Part I], 1932-1991.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2017
Committee of 100 on the Federal City Records [Part II], 1909-1996.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2131
Conaway, James. The Smithsonian: 150 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonder. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections Q 11.S8 C66 1995
Daughters of the American Revolution. In Washington: The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington: s.n., 1965.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.M5 D3
Dickson, Paul and Thomas Allen. The Bonus Army: An American Epic. New York: Walker & Co., 2004.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.D55 2004
DC HISTORY 37
East Washington Citizens Association. Constitution of the East Washington Citizens’ Association. Washington: The Association, 1887.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.S6 E27 1887
Friendship House Association Records, 1904-1992.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2142
Gauker, Ralph. History of the Scottish Rite Bodies in the District of Columbia. Washington: Alfred Pike Consistory, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections HS 778.W3 G38
Goode, G. Brown. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of its First Half Century. Washington: s.n., 1897.
Call Number: Special Collections Q11.S8 A4 1897
Goosman, Stuart. The Social and Cultural Organization of Black Group Vocal Harmony in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, 1945-1960. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 3556.G66 1992a
Greater Washington Board of Trade. A Time to Reflect, a Time to Grow: Celebrating 100 Years and Beyond. Washington: Washington Post Co., 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections HC 108.W3 T55 1990
Hafertepe, Kenneth. America’s Castle: The Evolution of the Smithsonian Building and its Institution, 1840-1878. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections Q 11.S8 H3 1984
Harper, Kenton. History of the Grand Lodge and of Freemasonry in the District of Columbia, with Biographical Appendix. Washington: R. Beresford, 1911.
Call Number: Special Collections HS 537.D6 H2
Hetzel, Susan. The Building of a Monument: A History of the Mary Washington Associations and Their Work. Lancaster: Wickersham Co., 1903.
Call Number: Special Collections E 312.19.H59
A History of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of the District of Columbia, Inc., 1927 through 1948. Washington: s.n., 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 6054.2.U62 W37 1949
DC HISTORY 38
History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. Washington: s.n., 1909-1947.
Call Number: Special Collections R 15.D654
Keene, Carter. History of Temple-Noyes Lodge No. 32, F.A.A.M., District of Columbia, 1907-1935. Washington: Temple-Noyes Lodge, 1935.
Call Number: Special Collections HS 539.W3 T35
National Organization for Women Washington DC Chapter and Capitol Hill Chapter.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2204
Palisades Citizens Association Golden Anniversary Celebration, 1916-1966: Palisades on Parade, Palisades Citizen Association, November 10 and 11, 1966, Mount Vernon Junior College and Seminary, Washington, D.C. Washington: The Association, 1966.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.P64 P34 1966
Paull, Nancy. Capital Medicine: A Tradition of Excellence: An Illustrated History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. Encino: Jostens Pub. Group, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections R 193.38 1994
Potomac Area Council American Youth Hostels, 1943-2005.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2196
Somerville, Mollie. Washington Landmark: A View of the DAR, the Headquarters, History, and Activities. Washington: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections E 202.5.A1795
Thorp, Lillian. A Century of Concern: The Story of the First One Hundred Years of the Central Union Mission, 1884-1984. Washington: s.n., 1984.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 99.W32 C468 1984
RESEARCH GUIDES
American Institute of Architects. The Federal City: A Bibliography Prepared in Conjunction with the Exhibit Creating the Federal-City, Potomac Fever, the Octagon, 1988. Washington: American Institute of Architects, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.C2 F42 1988
DC HISTORY 39
Angevine, Erma. Research in the District of Columbia. Arlington: National Genealogical Society, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections CS 42.N43 no. 60
Bibliography of Studies and Reports on the District of Columbia and the Washington Metropolitan Area: Population, Economic Activities, Housing, Land Use, Visitors, and Tourism. Washington: s.n., 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 7165.U5 U69
Black Washingtoniana: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in the Washingtoniana Division of the District of Columbia Public Library. Washington: Washingtoniana Division, District of Columbia Public Library, 2009. Bryan, William. Bibliography of the District of Columbia, being a List of Books, Maps, and Newspapers, Including Articles in Magazines and Other Publications to 1898. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 1269.B92
Calvan, Rita A. Selected Theses & Dissertations on the Washington, D.C. Region. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.C34
D.C. Statehood: A Bibliography. Washington: D.C. public Library, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections F 201.D2 1999
Evans, Henry. Old Georgetown on the Potomac: A Historical Sketch with a Bibliography of Source Material. Washington: Georgetown News, 1933.
Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 E85
Fisher, Perry. Materials for the Study of Washington: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. Washington: George Washington University, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4
Heintze, James. Theses and Dissertations in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Music Studies: A Bibliography. Washington: American University, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 125.W4 H4
Hincks, Joel. Housing, Planning, and Urban Renewal in Washington, D.C.: Selected References, 1963-1968. Washington: Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 7304.W3 U54
DC HISTORY 40
Hoagland, Kim. Guide to Resources for Researching Historic Buildings in Washington, D.C. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.5.H62
Index to the Unpublished Hearings of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia. s.l.: s.n., 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 1240.D52 I52 1983
Kaser, James. The Washington, D.C. of Fiction: A Research Guide. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Call Number: Special Collections PS 658.K37 2006
Kerwood, John. The United States Capitol: An Annotated Bibliography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 1270.C2 K43
Meglis, Anne. A Bibliographic Tour of Washington, D.C. Washington: D.C. Redevelopment Land Agency, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 5944.U5 M43
Melder, Keith. Neighborhood History in Washington, D.C.: A Survey and Checklist of Selected Projects and Sources of Information. Washington: Museum of the City of Washington, 1982.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.M46 1982
Patten, Katharine. Books about Washington, D.C.: A Selected List with Annotations. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.P37 1929
Provine, Dorothy. Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Commission of Fine Arts: Record Group 66. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections CD 3026.A32 no. 79
Ragatz, Lowell. Facilities for Research in History in Washington: A Report Presented to the Graduate Council of the George Washington University, on March 21, 1935. Washington: P. Pearlman, 1935.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 732.D62 R2
DC HISTORY 41
Smith, Kathryn. D.C. Resource Center Guide. Washington: Associates for Renewal in Education, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.5.S54
U.S. Naval History Sources in the Washington Area and Suggested Research Subjects. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965.
Call Number: Special Collections E 182.U52
Washington Works (newsletter). Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1981-92. SPEC has no.1-no. 21.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.W37
1968 RIOTS
Civil Disturbances in Washington. Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, May and July, 1968. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections KF 27.D5 1968
Dobrovir, William. Justice in Time of Crisis: A Staff Report to the District of Columbia Committee on the Administration of Justice under Emergency Conditions. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969.
Call Number: Special Collections KFD 1762.A83
Gilbert, Ben W. Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200 G5
Report of City Council Public Hearings on the Rebuilding and Recovery of Washington, D.C., from the Civil Disturbances of April, 1968. Washington: s.n., 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections HT 177.D6 A4
Report on Civil Disturbances in Washington, D.C., April 1968. Washington: s.n., 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.R46 1968
Sedlack, Richard. Riots as Disasters: And Exploratory Case Study of Selected Aspects of the Civil Disturbance in Washington, D.C., April, 1968. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.S32 1973a
DC HISTORY 42
U.S. National Capital Planning Commission. Civil Disturbances in Washington, D.C., April 4-8, 1968: A Preliminary Damage Report. Washington: s.n., 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.U5
Washington, Walter. Ten Years since April 4, 1968: A Decade of Progress for the District of Columbia: A Report to the People. Washington: Office of Executive Secretary, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections F 200.T46
RELIGION
Apelbaum, Laura and Wendy Turman. Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community. Washington: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, 2007.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.J5 J486 2007
Ancient Order of Hibernians. Souvenir Program, Unveiling of Memorial to Nuns of the Battlefields, under Auspices of Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies’ Auxiliary, September 20, 1924—Washington, D.C. Washington: W.F. Robert Co., 1924.
Call Number: Special Collections E 641.S68 1924
Aspinwall, J.A. Historical Sketch of St. Thomas Parish, Washington, D.C. Washington: Press of W.F. Roberts, 1902.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 S32 1902
Brittinger, Benjamin. Historical Discourse Delivered May 13, 1900 in Connection with the Dedicatory Services of the Westminister Church Memorial, Washington, D.C. Washington: The Congregation, 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 9211.W3 W47 1900
Brittinger, Benjamin. Historical Reminiscences of the Bridge Street, now West Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.: An Address. Washington: West Street Presbyterian Church, 1910.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 9211.W3 B74 1910
Brown, Mary. An Italian American Community of Faith: Holy Rosary in Washington, D.C. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 2004.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 4603.W32 B76 2004
DC HISTORY 43
Brown( Obadiah Bruen) Family Papers, 1807-1941.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2253
Calvary Baptist Church. Twentieth Anniversary of the Pastorate of the Rev. Samuel Harrison Greene…of Calvary Baptist Church, Corner Eighth and Streets Northwest, City of Washington. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1899.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 6495.G75 W3
Clark, Nina. History of the Nineteenth-Century Black Churches in Maryland and Washington, D.C. New York: Vantage Press, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections BR 555.M3 C58 1983
Condensed History of the Washington City Bible Society. Washington: The Society, 1876.
Call Number: Special Collections BV 2370.W3 C65 1876
Conway, Moncure. The Old and the New: A Sermon Containing the History of the First Unitarian Church in Washington City. Preached on Sunday, December 31, 1854. Washington: Buell and Blanchard, 1855.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 9861.W3 C6 1855
Diner, Hasia. Fifty Years of Jewish Self-Governance: The Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington, 1938-1988. Washington: The Council, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.J5 D56 1989
Domer, Samuel and Lucius Alden. History of St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church: And of the Work of the Church and Sunday School for the Semi-Centennial Year, Including Additional Reports to June 30, 1893. Washington: The Congregation, 1893.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 8076.W3 S3
Donovan, Jane. Many Witnesses: A History of Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 1772-1990. Interlaken: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 8382.2.Z7 W37 1998
Edgington, Frank. A History of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church: One Hundred Fifty-seven Years, 1803 to 1961. Washington: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1961.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 9211.W3 N55 1962
DC HISTORY 44
Gerguson, William. Methodism in Washington, District of Columbia: Being an Account of the Rise and Early Progress of Methodism in that City, and a Succinct History of the Fourth-Street Methodist Episcopal Church; Also Sketches of the Preachers from the Earliest Times, and an Appendix of all the Methodist Churches at Present in the City. Baltimore: The Methodist Episcopal Book Depository, 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 8249.W3 F4
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. The Record. Washington: The Society, 1966-2004.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.J5 R4
Kendig, Robert. The Washington National Cathedral: This Bible in Stone. McLean: EPM Publications, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 K46 1995
LaLaonde, Kristine. Transformations of Authority: Reform, Rebellion, and Resistance in the Catholic Church of the 1960s. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 1418.W18 L34 2000a
MacGregor, Morris. A Parish for the Federal City: St. Patrick’s in Washington, 1794-1994. Washington: Catholic University of America, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 4603.W32 M6 1994
Marans, Hillel. Jews in Greater Washington: A Panoramic History of Washington Jewry for the Years 1795-1960. Washington: s.n., 1961.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.J5 M3 1961
McGarraghy, Andrew, ed. Centenary of St. Peter’s Church, and Golden Jubilee of Rt. Rev. Monsignor James M. O’Brien, Pastor of St. Peter’s Church, Washington, D.C. Washington: T.A. Cantwell, 1920.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 4603.W32 S35
Meyer, Jeffrey. Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections BL 2527.W18 M49 200
Moran, Mary. St. Dominic’s Parish: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1852-2002. Chevy Chase: Posterity Press, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 4603.W32 M67 2002
DC HISTORY 45
Muffler, John. This Far by Faith: A History of St. Augustine’s, the Mother Church of Black Catholics in the Nation’s Capital. Ed.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 1407.N4 M86 1989
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. The History of the Helping Hand Club of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Washington: The Associated Publishers, 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 6249.W36 N5
Noble, E. Myron. –And They Yet Speak: Historical Survey of African American Pentecostal-Holiness Churches in the Nation’s Capital, Washington, D.C., 1900-2006. Washington: Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 2007.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 8762.5.A44 W37 2007
Nordlinger, Bernard. A History of the Washington Hebrew Congregation: One Hundred Years of Reform Judaism in the District of Columbia. s.l.: s.n., 1956.
Call Number: Special Collections BM 653.W3
Program of the Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of Monument to the Memory and in the Honor of the Nuns of the Battlefield, Washington, D.C.: Saturday, September 20th, 1924. Washington: s.n., 1924.
Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 264
Rabinowitz, Stanley. The Assembly: A Century in the Life of the Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation of Washington, D.C. Hoboken: Ktav Pub. House, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections BM 225.W372 A337 1993
Raphael, Marc. Towards a “National Shrine”: A Centennial History of Washington Hebrew Congregation 1855-1955. Williamsburg: Department of Religious Studies, College of William and Mary, 2005.
Call Number: Special Collections BM 225.W372 W377 2005
Ray, Laura, H.T. Waesch, and Gerald Keene. A History of Emory Methodist Church, 1832-1962: One Hundred and Thirtieth Anniversary. Washington: s.n., 1962.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 8481.W3 E47
Simon, Abram and Washington Hebrew Congregation. A History of the Congregation in Commemoration of its Jubilee. Washington: Lippman Print Co., 1905.
Call Number: Special Collections BM 225.W3 W32
DC HISTORY 46
Smith, John. “Jehova-Jireh.” A Discourse Commemorative of the Twenty-Seventh Anniversary of the Organization of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Delivered on Sabbath, 25th November, 1955. Washington: T. McGill, 1855.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 9211.W3 F6
Smith, Kathy. A History of Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown. Washington: s.n., 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 G7 1974
Smith, Milton. Memorial of St. Patrick’s Church, in Commemoration of the 110th Anniversary, November 20th, 1904: Containing a Complete History with Illustrations and Dedication Sermon. Washington: St. Patrick’s Church, 1904.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 4603.W32 S336 1904
St. Thomas’ Church, Washington, D.C. Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1912.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 S323 1912
Staughton (William) Papers, 1795-1964.
Call Number: Special Collections MS0311
Sunderland, Byron. The Crisis of the Times: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., on the Evening of the National Fast, Thursday, April 30, 1863. Washington: National Banner Press, 1863.
Call Number: Special Collections E 458.3.S95
Tucker, Gregory. America’s Church: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor Pub., 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 2321.N38 T83 2000
Wann, John. A Compilation and History of National Baptist Memorial Church (Formerly Immanuel Baptist Church), Washington, D.C., 1906 to about 1976. Washington: s.n., 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 6480.W3 N378
Warner, William. At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 1418.W18 W37 1994
Wilbur, William. Temple Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. through Ninety Years. Washington: The Church, 1932.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 6480.W35 W45 1932
DC HISTORY 47
Williams, Walter. History of Christ Church, Georgetown, D.C.: Prepared from the Records of the Church…and Read at the Semi-Centennial Celebration, Held on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1868. Georgetown: Courier Print, 1869.
Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.G4 C47 1869
Winters, Robert. A Centennial History, 1899-1989, the Methodist Home of the District of Columbia. Washington: Methodist home of the District of Columba, 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1063.2.U6 W56 1990
SOCIAL HISTORY/MEMOIRS
Abell, George. Let Them Eat Caviar. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.A23
Alexander, Jeb. Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 75.8.A74 A3 1993
Andrews, Marietta Minnigerode. My Studio Window: Sketches of the Pageant of Washington Life. New York: Dutton, 1928.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.A52
Barry, David S. Forty Years in Washington. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.
Call Number: Special Collections E 661.B27
Bayard, Margaret. Forty Years of Washington Society. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.S651
Bennett, Linda. Patterns of Ethnic Identity among Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in Washington, D.C. Ph.D. Thesis, American University, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.Y7 B46 1976a
Briggs, Emily. The Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.B85
DC HISTORY 48
Burton, Anna. A Bride in Washington in 1876. Boston: National Magazine, 1911.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.B87 1911
Cantwell, Robert. Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections GT 4802.C36 1993
Carson, Barbara. Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington. Washington: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.C33 1990
Cary, Francine Curro. Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History of Washington, D.C. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Call Number: Special Collections JV 6940.U73 1996
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. From Servant to Dayworker: A Study of Selected Household Service Workers in Washington, D.C., 1900-1926. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections HD 6072.2.U52 W37 1983a
Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
Call Number: Special Collections F 213.C62
Clemmer, Mary. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capitol, as a Woman Sees Them. Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.A512
Cosentino, Andrew. City of Magnificent Distances, the Nation’s Capital: A Checklist. Washington: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.5.C67 1991
Eckloff, Christian Frederick. Memoirs of a Senate Page: 1855-1859. New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections E 431.E19
Fennelly (Carol) Papers, 1971-1997.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2153
DC HISTORY 49
Finamore, Frank. Washington, D.C. Trivia Fact Book. New York: Gramercy Books, 2001.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.6.F56 2001
Fogle, Jeanne. Two Hundred Years: Stories of the Nation’s Capital. Arlington: Vandamere Press, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.F64 1991
Fox, Frances. Washington, D.C., the Nation’s Capital, Romance—Adventure—Achievement: A Book for Young People. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1929.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.F79
Gatchel, Theodore. Rambling through Washington, an Account of Old and New Landmarks in Our Capital City. Washington: Washington Journal, 1932.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.G26
Ghaziani, Amin. The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 76.8.U5 G53 2008
Goode (James) Papers, 1903-2009.
Call Number: Special Collections MS0670
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal. My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington. London: Richard Bentley, 1863.
Call Number: Special Collections E 608.G8
Gurowski, Adam G. Diary. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections E 601.G97 1968
Gutheim (Frederick) Papers, 1966-1974.
Call Number: Special Collections MS0244
Harrigan, Robert. Pastimes in Washington: Leisure Activities in the Capital Area, 1800-1995. Bowie: Heritage Books, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections GV54.D5 H37 2002
DC HISTORY 50
Henry, William Wirt. Eminent and Representative Men of Virginia and the District of Columbia in the Nineteenth Century. Madison: Brant & Fuller, 1893.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.E53
Hines, Christian. Early Recollections of Washington City. Washington: Chronicle Book and Job Print, 1866.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.H66
Hooper, William. The Heiress of Washington. New York: Scribner, 1874.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.H76 1874
Hubbard (Harriet B.) Papers, 1958-1978.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2074
Hurd, Charles. Washington Cavalcade. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.H8
Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C., After the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.J33 1995
Laas, Virginia Jeans. Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: The Marriage of Violet Blair. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1413.B543 L33 1998
Lee (Harrison) Papers, 1928-1992.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2011
Lewis, Ann and Beth Newburger. Celebrating Women’s History: Recommendations to President William Jefferson Clinton. Washington: President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History, 1999.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1410.P73 1999
Miller, Albert D. Distinguished Residents of Washington, D.C. Science-Art-Industry. Washington: National Capital Press, Inc., 1916.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.M64
DC HISTORY 51
Modan, Gabriella. Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place. Malden: Blackwell, 2007.
Call Number: Special Collections HN 80.W3 M63 2007
Oral History Collection Records, 1904-1997.
Call Number: Special Collections MS0371
Pierce, Frank. The Washington Saengerbund: A History of Germany Song and German Culture in the Nation’s Capital. Washington: Washington Saengerbund, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections ML 200.8.W32 S345
Poore, Benjamin and Charles Kelly. Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brother, 1886.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.P821
President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History. Women Who Made History: A Guide to Women’s History Sites in Washington, D.C. Washington: U.S. General Services Administration, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1439.W3 P73 2000
Rader, Victoria. Signal through the Flames: Mitch Snyder and America’s Homeless. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1986.
Call Number: Special Collections HV 4506.W2 R33 1986
Schafer, Edith. Literary Circles of Washington. Washington: Starrhill Press, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections PS 253.D6 S33 1993
Solomon, Burt. The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation’s Capital. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.S65 2004
Stealey, Orlando Oscar. Twenty Years in the Press Gallery. New York: Publishers Printing Company, 1906.
Call Number: Special Collections E 601.N95
Warnke, Christine. Green American Community of Washington, D.C. (1890-1935). Ph. D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections F 205.G7 W37 1993a
DC HISTORY 52
Washington Metro Oral History Project Collection, 1975-2002.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2214
Women in the District of Columbia: A Contribution to Their History. Washington: D.C. International Women’s Year Coordinating Committee, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1439.W3 W3