Shaw, Ledroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, DC: An Oral History, Hardcover - Shilpi Malinowski

Reducere. Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses w...

Reducere. Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park stands as a wild and wonderful natural gem among a burgeoning metropolis. But while local residents flock to its...

St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Gove...

Reducere. Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park stands as a wild and wonderful natural gem among a burgeoning metropolis. But while local residents flock to its...

Reducere. A you-are-there history of one of football's most successful and beloved teams Who is the greatest quarterback in Redskins history? Baugh? Jurgense...

Reducere. Do you want to read Pygmalion? If so then keep reading...Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It...

Reducere. From the burning of Washington by the British in 1814 to the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon, firefighters in Washington, D.C., have alwa...

Reducere. Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was kn...

Reducere. Washington's first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the c...

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When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark ...

Reducere. A you-are-there history of one of football's most successful and beloved teams Who is the greatest quarterback in Redskins history? Baugh? Jurgense...

DescriptionFrom Mount Vernon to Georgetown, The White House to the monuments, Historic Photos of Washington D.C. is a photographic history collecte...

The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

Reducere. About 20, 000 years ago, the late Wisconsinan glaciation reached its maximum extent. Glacial deposits identify the moraine, or farthest area covere...

Reducere. Washington has a rural history of agrarian landscapes and country estates. John Adlum, the Father of American Viticulture, experimented with Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile today, foodies flock to the flavors of Logan Circle and the H Street corridor, Washington's first true restaurants opened around 1...

Reducere. Southwest Washington, D.C., is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name; the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Bui...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Reducere. DescriptionMany of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives an...

Reducere. Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the ...

Reducere. In the Rocky Mountain West, Denver is considered the big city. Yet its urban core consists of numerous neighborhoods developed in the late 19th cen...

Reducere. This tour of the nation's capital goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journey through the federal district. Visit the White...

Reducere. A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in WASHINGTON, D.C. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of t...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

Reducere. The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C. The Victorian row house in Black ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melanie Choukas-BradleyPhotographer: Susan Austin Roth2015 IPPY Silver Medalist, Best Mid-Atlantic NonfictionTwice the size...

Reducere. DescriptionWashington seems the eternal and unchanging Federal City with its grand avenues and stately monuments. Yet the city that locals once kne...

Reducere. The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

A collective story of the early British games industry. Composed of interviews with 35 people who shaped the modern videogame, including David Brab...

Presents the history of a radical movement in Seventies Britain. With its own clothes, hair, artwork, fanzines and radical politics, Punk boasted a...

Reducere. Once upon a time ABC-TV's Moonlighting was among the most buzzed-about shows in the country, thanks largely to the bravado of creator Glenn Gordon ...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Washington DC is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on...

"Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a city whose res...

Reducere. As the First Family sleeps, something spooky goes bump in the night. History knows the White House as the symbol of the American presidency. Could ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. Samuel Walker"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed...

A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fift...

Reducere. Made famous in the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, this pocket of Appalachian coal country has been home to generations of miners--and to some ...

In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobili...

Reducere. Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there wer...

Reducere. The tiny Sun studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, may not have looked like much from the outside, but inside musical miracles were bei...

Reducere. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the mov...

In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750, 000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early d...

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A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin...