Zachary M. Schrag. The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiii + 376 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-8246-3.
Reviewed by Rosalyn P. Doggett (Senior Development Director, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) Published on H-DC (August, 2006)
Josephine F. Pacheco. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. x + 307 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2918-9.
Reviewed by Mary Beth Corrigan (Independent Scholar) Published on H-DC (April, 2006)
The Legacy and Significance of a Failed Mass Slave Escape
C. R. Gibbs. Black, Copper, and Bright: The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment. Silver Spring, MD: Three Dimensional Publishing, 2002. 280 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-877835-81-0.
Reviewed by Christine Cohn (American University) Published on H-DC (April, 2006)
