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
