James D. Rice. Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv + 338 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-9032-1.
Reviewed by Laura Croghan Kamoie Published on H-DC (September, 2012) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Robert Harrison. Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x + 343 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-00232-6.
Reviewed by Alan H. Lessoff (Illinois State University) Published on H-DC (September, 2012) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xxiii + 304 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-10893-6.
Reviewed by Marie J. Schwartz (University of Rhode Island) Published on H-DC (July, 2012) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Pamela Scott. Fortress of Finance: The United States Treasury Building. Washington DC: Treasury Historical Association, 2010. Illustrations. xiv + 318 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-615-36629-6.
Reviewed by Alison K. Hoagland Published on H-DC (December, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
The Architecture of Money
Gail Sylvia Lowe. East of the River: Continuity and Change. Washington DC: Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2010. Illustrations, maps. 242 pp. $25.00 (paper), No ISBN listed.
Reviewed by Ida E. Jones Published on H-DC (October, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
East toward the Rising Sun: A New Look at Southeast Washington DC
Kate Masur. An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 376 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3414-5.
Reviewed by Jacqueline Moore (Austin College) Published on H-DC (October, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Stephen R. Ortiz. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era. New York: New York University Press, 2010. xii + 249 pp. $47.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-6213-4.
Reviewed by Mary-Elizabeth Bradley Murphy (Drexel University) Published on H-DC (September, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Blair A. Ruble. Washington's U Street: A Biography. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010. xviii + 410 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-9800-6.
Reviewed by Amber N. Wiley Published on H-DC (September, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Jerry A. McCoy, Silver Spring Historical Society. Downtown Silver Spring. Then & Now Series. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. Illustrations. 96 pp. $21.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7385-8631-1.
Reviewed by Susan Soderberg Published on H-DC (February, 2011) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Development Illustrated
Gary Scharnhorst. Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist. Writing American Women Series. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xiv + 306 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-0874-5.
Reviewed by John Fleckner (Smithsonian Institution) Published on H-DC (November, 2010) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Anthony S. Pitch. "They Have Killed Papa Dead!" The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance. Hanover: Steerforth Press, 2008. 512 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58642-158-8.
Reviewed by John P. Richardson (Self) Published on H-DC (May, 2010) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Kathryn Allamong Jacob. King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 212 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-9397-1.
Reviewed by Alan H. Lessoff (Illinois State University) Published on H-DC (May, 2010) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Kirk Savage. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. x + 390 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-25654-5.
Reviewed by Christopher H. Sterling (George Washington University) Published on H-DC (April, 2010) Commissioned by Mary Beth Corrigan
Paul E. Ceruzzi. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005. Boston: MIT Press, 2008. ix + 242 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-03374-9.
Reviewed by John Spiers Published on H-DC (November, 2008) Commissioned by David F. Krugler
Tysons Corner: A New Twist on Suburban Development
Luca Molinari, Andrea Canepari, eds. The Italian Legacy in Washington D.C.: Architecture, Design, Art, and Culture. Milan: Skira, 2007. 213 pp. Illustrations. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-88-6130-304-1.
Reviewed by Mimi Godfrey Published on H-DC (November, 2008) Commissioned by David F. Krugler
Unfulfilling Legacy
