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History of Washington, DC:War and Politics
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
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW: Vista from Treasury towards Capitol, c. 1870.From the Charles Suddarth Kelly Photographic Collection.
A Guide to War and Politics in Washington, D.C. 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
CIVIL WAR .......................................................................................................... 3
GENERAL ............................................................................................................ 8
MILITARY HISTORY ............................................................................................ 10
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ................................................................................ 14
POLITICS ........................................................................................................... 16
If you would like to find additional resources concerning D.C., please refer to our D.C. History Resources Guide.
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CIVIL WAR
Adams, F. Colburn. Siege of Washington, D.C.: Written Expressly for Little People. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867.
Call Number: Special Collections E 647.A2
Armes, George. Ups and Downs of an Army Officer. Washington: s.n., 1900.
Call Number: Special Collections E 181.A72
Benjamin, Marcus. Washington during War Time: A Series of Papers Showing the Military, Political, and Social Phases during 1861 to 1865. Washington: Press of B.S. Adams, 1902.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.B462
Blanding, Stephen F. In the Defences of Washington; or, The Sunshine in a Soldier’s Life. Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, Printers, 1889.
Call Number: Special Collections E 601.B63
Brooks, Noah. Washington in Lincoln’s Time. New York: The Century Co., 1895.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.B87
Brooks, Noah. Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.B87 1989
Carroll, Daniel. Henri Mercier in Washington, 1860-1863. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections E 183.8.F8 C26 1969a
Carroll, John. A Brief History of New York’s Famous Seventh Regiment and the Events Surrounding its March to the Defense of the National Capital. New York: s.n., 1960.
Call Number: Special Collections UA 364 7th.C3
Cooling, B. Franklin. Jubal Early's Raid on Washington in 1864. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections E 476.66.C85 1989
Cooling, B. Franklin. Defending Washington during the Civil War. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections E 470.2.C72 1973
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Cooling, B. Franklin. Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington. Shippensburg: White Mane Publishing Company, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.C66 1988
Cooling, B. Franklin. Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington during the Civil War. Hamden: Archon Books, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections E 470.2.C74
Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia Records, 1951-1994.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2078
De Gurowski, Adam. Diary. Boston: s.n., 1862-1866.
Call Number: Special collections E 601.G97
District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Collection of Pamphlets. s.l.: s.n., 1961-1965.
Call Number: Special Collection E 641.D56
Dyson, Walter. The District of Columbia in the Civil War. M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1913.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.D97 1913a
Early, Jubal Anderson. The Advance upon Washington in July, 1864. Baltimore: Murdoch, Browne, & Hill, 1871.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.E12 1871
Early, Jubal Anderson. General Barnard’s Report on the Defences of Washington in July 1864. Baltimore: Murdoch, Browne & Hill, 1872.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.E125 1872
Epstein, Daniel. Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Call Number: Special Collections E 457.2.E67 2004
Fernald, Granville. The Story of the First Defenders: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Washington: Clarence E. Davis, 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.F36
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Fisher, Charles. Diary of Charles B. Fisher. Washington: Columbian Harmony Society, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections E 591.F62 1983
Forman, Stephen M. A Guide to Civil War Washington. Washington: Elliott & Clark Publishers, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.F64 1995
Freeman, Julia. The Boys in White: The Experience of a Hospital Agent in and Around Washington. New York: Lange & Hillman, 1870.
Call Number: Special Collections E 621.F85
Hallidy (Adam M.) Papers, 1862-1865.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2042
History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration. Washington: U.S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932.
Call Number: Special Collections E 312.6.G46 v. 1-3 f
Howard, Hamilton. Civil War Echoes: Character Sketches and State Secrets. Washington: Howard Publishing Company, 1907.
Call Number: Special Collections E 468.9.H81
Howard, William. Alleged Hostile Organization Against the Government within the District of Columbia: February 14, 1861. Washington: s.n., 1861.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.U58
Hubbell, Richtmyer. Potomac Diary: A Soldier’s Account of the Capital in Crisis, 1864-1865. Charleston: Arcadia Pub., 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.H82 2000
Judge, Joseph. Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington. Berryville: Rockbridge Pub. Co., 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections E 476.66.J83 1994
Kimmel, Stanley Preston. Mr. Lincoln's Washington. New York: Coward-McCann, 1957.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.K5
LeClair, Paul. The Francis Scala Collection: Music in Washington, D.C. at the Time of the Civil War. Ph.D. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1973.
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Call Number: Special Collections ML 200.8.W3 L42 1974a
Lee, Richard M. Mr. Lincoln's City: An Illustrated Guide to the Civil War Sites of Washington. McLean: EPM Publications, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections F 192.3.L44
Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865. New York: Harper and Sons, 1941.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.L4
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice. My Story of the War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of the Rebellion. Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1889.
Call Number: Special Collections E 621.L79
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford. In the Defenses of Washington. New Haven: Yale University, 1913.
Call Number: Special Collections E 470.2.L68 1913
Lowry, Thomas P. The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D.C. Fredericksburg: Sergeant Kirkland’s, 1997.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 146.W3 L68 1997
Mahony, Dennis. The Prisoner of State. New York: Carleton, 1863.
Call Number: Special Collections E 458.8.M2
McClure, Stanley W. The Defenses of Washington, 1861-1865. Washington: U.S. Office of National Capital Parks, 1957.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.M34
Mitchell, Mary. An Intimate Journey through Georgetown in April 1863. Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1963.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.M67 1963
Noyes, George Freeman. The Bivouac and the Battlefield: or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863.
Call Number: Special Collections E 601.N95
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Owen, Thomas. “Dear Friends at Home— ”: The Letters and Diary of Thomas James Owen, Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, during the Civil War. Washington: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1985.
Call Number: Special Collections E 601.O83
Pennsylvania Thirteenth. Great Falls: 13th Regt. Pa. Volunteers, 1861.
Call Number: Special Collections E 527.5 13th.P45
Pryor, Sara. Reminiscences of Peace and War. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.
Call Number: Special Collections E 415.7.P981
Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defence of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1865-1871.
Call Number: Special Collections E 494.U572
Riddle, A. G. Recollections of War Times: Recollections of Men and Events in Washington, 1860-1865. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895.
Call Number: Special Collections E 459.R54
Stearns, Amanda. The Lady Nurse of Ward E. New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections E 621.S79
Stein, J.H. A History of the Army of the Potomac. Washington: Gibson Bros, 1893.
Call Number: Special Collections E 470.2.S85
Stoddard, William Osborn. Inside the White House in War Times. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1890.
Call Number: Special Collections E 456.S86
Stone, Charles. A Dinner with General Scott in 1861. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1884.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.S75 1884
Stone, Charles. Washington in 1861: The Prophecy Concerning the Battle of Bull Run. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1884.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.S76 1884
Swindler, Henry. The Last Stroke of a Master. New York: American Mercury, 1929.
Call Number: Special Collections E 476.66.S95 1929
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The Symbol and the Sword: Washington, D.C., 1860-1865. Washington: s.n., 1962.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.A54
Union Soldiers Alliance. Eleventh Annual Reunion Banquet, Union Soldiers’ Alliance, Washington, D.C., Langham, December 30, 1889, at 8 p.m. Washington: Gibson Bros., 1889.
Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 272
Vedder (Timothy) Letters, 1861 June 25-Sept. 26.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2201
Viele, Egbert L. The Seventh Regiment at the Capital, 1861: “Daylight Contingent”. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1885.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.V54 1885
Whitman, Walt. The Wound Dresser: Letters Written to His Mother from the Hospitals in Washington during the Civil War. New York: The Bodley Press, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections PS 3221.A1 1949
Wilson, John Moulder. The Defenses of Washington, 1861-1865. Washington: s.n., 1901.
Call Number: Special Collections E 470.2.W55 1901
Williams, William Hazaiah. The Negro in the District of Columbia during Reconstruction. Washington: Howard Review, 1924.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 W545 1924
Wills, Mary Alice. The Confederate Blockade of Washington, D.C., 1861-1862. Parsons: McClain Printing Company, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections E 600.W55
Wright, Marcus. Catalogue of Pictures of Confederate and Union Army and Navy Officers, Battle Scenes, Maps, Curio…s.l.: s.n., 1890.
Call Number: Special Collections E 646.C37 1890
GENERAL
Brown, Glenn. History of the United States Capitol. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900-1903.
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Call Number: Special Collections F 204.C2 B8 f
Clark, Allen. Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City. Washington: W.F. Roberts, 1901.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.G8
Cox, William Van Zant, et al. 1800-1900: Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia. Washington: GPO, 1901.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.D61
Diner, Steven. Democracy, Federalism and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital, 1790-1974. Washington: University of the District of Columbia, 1987.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.D56 1987
District of Columbia: City and Capital. Washington: Public Affairs Office of the District of Columbia, 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.D66 1967
Douglass, Betty. Behind the Scenes; At the United Nations and Some Other Places (1941-1965). Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1990.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.D75 1990
Federal Writer's Project. Washington, City and Capital. Washington: GPO, 1937.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.F38
Fogle, Jeanne and Edward. Proximity to Power: Neighbors to the Presidents near Lafayette Square. Washington: A Tour de Force Publications, 1991.
Call Number: Special Collections F 193.F64 1999
Groves, Paul. A History of the District of Columbia, Unit V, Washington between the Wars, the Federal Capital Comes of Age, 1919-1941. Washington: Associates for Renewal in Education, 1979.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.G76 1979
Highsmith, Carol, Ted Landphair, and David Patterson. Embassies of Washington. Washington: Preservation Press, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections NA 4443.W3 H54 1992
Riley, J. F. The History of Old Washington: A Narrative of the Principal Events Occurring in the District of Columbia from its Establishment as the Capital of the United States to a Recent Period;
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Together with an Account of its Various Local Forms of Government and Civic and Penal Institutions…Illustrated with Rare Views of Buildings and Men No Longer Existing. New York: J.F. Riley, 1902.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.R54 1902
Smith, Wilhelmine. Personal Recollections of Early Washington and a Sketch of the Life of Captain William Easby. Washington: Beresford Pr., 1913.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.E13
Tobin, William Anthony. In the Shadow of the Capitol: The Transformation of Washington, D.C. and the Elaboration of the Modern U.S. Nation State. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.T62 1993a
Townsend, George. Events at the National Capital and the Campaign of 1876: A Complete History of the Foundation and Growth of Our Governing City, a Description of the Public Buildings and Manner of Living There, a Searching Exposure of the Various Jobs and Scandals which have Excited Public Indignation, Full Biographies of Hayes, Wheeler, Tilden, and Hendricks, besides Various Political Statistics. Hartford: Betts & Co., 1876.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T75
MILITARY HISTORY
Alden, Robert. The Flights of the Madisons. Fairfax: Fairfax County Council of the Arts, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 A42 1974
Alvord, Thomas. The Sacking of Washington. Boston: National Magazine, 1899.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 A49 1890
Army War College. Military Exposition & Carnival, War College. Washington: War College, 1928.
Call Number: Special Collections UH 760.M55
Barton, Wilfred Mason. The Road to Washington. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1919.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 B2
Brinkley, David. Washington Goes to War. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1988.
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Call Number: Special Collections D 769.85.D6 B75 1988
Brown, Lenard. National Capital Parks: Fort Stanton, Fort Foote, and Battery Ricketts. Washington: Office of History and Historic Architecture, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections E 501.B9
Cartwright, William, Louise Goeden, and William Offutt. The Military District of Washington in the War Years, 1942-1945. Bethesda: Brother’s Printing, 1995.
Call Number: Special Collections D 769.85.D6 C37 1995
Chesterton, George. Peace, War, and Adventure: An Autobiographical Memoir of George Laval Chesterton. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1853.
Call Number: Special Collections DA 68.12.C5
Clarke, Frederick. Engineer Memoirs: Interviews with Lieutenant General Frederick J. Clarke. Washington: U.S. Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Historical Division, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections UG 128.C52 A3 1980
Davis, Madison. An Almost Forgotten Battle. Washington: Records of the Past Exploration Society, 1910.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 D38 1910
Door, F.W. Defenses of Washington: Map of the Ground Occupation and Defense of the Division of the U.S. Army in Virginia in Command of Brig Gen. Irvin McDowell. Washington: War Records Office, 1865.
Call Number: Special Collections G 3851.S5 1865.U54 CC
Eaton, Paul. The Treasure. New York: R.F. Fenno, 1909.
Call Number: Special Collections PS 3509.A847.E1486 T
Everett, Edward. Eighteen Hundred Fourteen. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 197.E93 1873
General Orders. Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1814.
Call Number: Special Collections E 355.6.U54 1814f
Gleig, George. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, the Years 1814-1815. London: J. Murray, 1836.
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Call Number: Special Collections E 355.G554
Griffin, Appleton and Randolph Keim. Rochambeu. A Commemoration by the Congress of the United States of America of the Services of the French Auxiliary Forces in the War of Independence. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907.
Call Number: Special Collections E 265.R68
Hungerford, Edward. In Wartime Washington: Intimate Glimpses of Our War-Makers and Lawmakers: How the Capital is Measuring Up to the National Crisis. Floral Park: Travel Magazine, 1917.
Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 208 ff
Ingersoll, Lurton. A History of the War Department of the United States. Washington: F.B. Mohun, 1879.
Call Number: Special Collections UB 23.I47
Ingraham, Edward. A Sketch of the Events which Preceded the Capture of Washington, by the British, on the Twenty-Fourth of August, 1814. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 I5
Johnson, Richard. Report of the Committee Appointed on the Twenty-Third of September Last to Inquire into the Causes and Particulars of the Invasion of the City of Washington, by the British forces in the Month of August, 1814. Washington: A and G Way, Printers, 1814.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 U5 1814b
Krugler, David. This is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for the Nuclear War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Call Number: Special Collections UA 928.5.W3 K89 2006
Leatherneck Association. Home of the Commandants, 801 “G” St., S.E., Washington, D.C. Washington: s.n., 1956.
Call Number: Special Collections E 182.L4
Lord, Walter. The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: Norton, 1972.
Call Number: Special Collections E 354.L85
Lossing, Benson. The Pictorial Field-book of the War of 1812: Illustrations by Pen and Pencil of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the Last War for American Independence. New York: Harper & Bros, 1869.
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Call Number: Special Collections E 354.L875
McClellan, Phyllis. Silent Sentinel on the Potomac: Fort McNair, 1791-1991. Bowie: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993.
Call Number: Special Collections UA 26.W33 M38 1993
McClure, Stanley. Guide Leaflet for the Defenses of Washington. Washington: National Capital Parks, 1951.
Call Number: Special Collections UG 412.W3 A52
McCormick, Charles. General Background, Forts Mahan, Chaplin, Dupont, Davis. Washington: Division of History, Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation, 1967.
Call Number: Special Collections UG 412.W3 M2
Morgan, William. A History of the Dudley Knox Center for Naval History. Washington: Dudley Knox Center for Naval History, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 733.D83 M66 1981
Murray (Albert F.) Papers, 1858-1987.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2003
Peck, Taylor. Round-Shot to Rockets: A History of the Washington Navy Yard and U.S. Naval Gun Factory. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1949.
Call Number: Special Collections VA 70.W3 P4
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
Quartermaster General’s Report to Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment at Washington, D.C., September 21 and 22, 1892. Washington: s.n., 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections E 462.1.A2 1892
Recreation Services, Inc. Cross-roads to War and the Road Back: A History of the United Nations Service Center, 1943-1947. Washington: Recreation Service, Inc., 1947.
Call Number: Special Collections D 810.E8 R4
Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 1904. Washington: s.n., 1904.
Call Number: Special Collections E 186.3.D632
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Reports from the Departments of State, Treasury, War, and Navy and General Post-Office, in Relation to the Destruction of Official Books and Papers,, in Consequence of the Incursion of the Enemy on the 24th of August last: November 17, 1814. Washington: A & G. Way, 1814.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 R46 1814
Ross (Robert) Papers, 1813-1873.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2085
Ross, Robert. The Capture of Washington by the English, 1814. London: Stock, 1897.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 C82 1897
Williams, John. History of the Invasion and Capture of Washington, and of the Events which Preceded and Followed. New York: Harper & Bros, 1857.
Call Number: Special Collections E 356.W3 W7
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
Ashworth, Marjorie. Glory Road: Pennsylvania Avenue, Past & Present. McLean: Link Press, 1986.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.7.P4 A75 1986
Battaglia, Elio. The White House: An Historical Guide Book, a Case History in Printing Production. M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri, 1966.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 116.A3 B37 1966a
Cable, Mary. The Avenue of the Presidents. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.7 P4 C3
Furman, Bess. White House Profile: A Social History of the White House, its Occupants and its Festivities. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 F8
Goodrich, Lloyd, et. al. The White House Gardens: A History and Pictorial Record. New York: Great American Editions, 1973.
Call Number: Special Collections SB 453.2.W35 W46
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Highsmith, Carol. Pennsylvania Avenue: America's Main Street. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1988.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.7.P4 H54 1988f
Lamb, Martha. The White House and its Memories: Historic Homes of Our Presidents. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1887.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 L35 1887
McKim, Mead & White and Charles Moore. Restoration of the White House. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 R4
Monkman, Betty. The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families. Washington: White House Historical Association, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections NK 2438.W37 M66 2000
Olszewski, George. The President’s Park South, Washington, D.C. Washington: Office of History and Historic Architecture, Eastern Service Center, 1970.
Call Number: Special Collections F 203.5.P9 O4
Seale, William. The President’s House: A History. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1986.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 S43 1986
Seale, William. The White House: The History of an American Idea. Washington: American Institute of Architects Press, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 S44 1992 f
Stoddard, William. Inside the White House in War Times. New York: Charles Webster & Co., 1890.
Call Number: Special Collections E 456.S86
The White House 1792-1992: Image in Architecture. Washington: American Architectural Foundation, 1992.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 W55 1992
White House History: Journal of the White House Historical Association. Washington: The Association, 1983.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 A64
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Willets, Gilson. Inside History of the White House: The Complete History of the Domestic and Official Life in Washington of the Nation’s Presidents and their Families. New York: Christian Herald, 1908.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.W5 W7 1908
POLITICS
Acts of the Corporation of the City of Washington. Washington: The Council. Special Collections has 1802-18.
Call Number: Special Collections KFX 2531.W3 A3
Affairs in the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.G582
Allgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1236.5.U6 A45 2000
Alsop, Stewart. The Center: People and Power in Political Washington. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1968.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.A69
American Association of Political Consultants Interview Collection, 1997-1999.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2100
Anderson (Jack) Papers, 1930-2004.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2001
Arnold, Linda M. Congressional Government of the District of Columbia, 1800-1846. Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgetown University, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.A76 1974a
Bangura, Abdul Karim. Historical Political Economy of Washington, D.C. Lanham: University Press of America, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections HC 108.W3 H57 2000
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Barber, Lucy. Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections E 743.B338 2002
Beasley, Maurine Hoffman. The First Women Washington Correspondents. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4 no.4
Campbell (Josephine) Papers, 1905-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2237
Chandler, William. Affairs in the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.G582
Clarke (David A.) Papers, 1976-1995.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2010
Clephane, Walter. A History of the Government of the District of Columbia. Washington: s.n., 1892.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.C6
Coffin (George) Papers, 1858-1898.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2048
Crain (Darrell C., Jr.) Presidential Inaugural Collection, 1817-1989.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2035
Crane, John. More About the Washington Tammany: Its Tool in Congress Unmasked. Washington: s.n., 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.C88
Cropp (Linda) Papers, 1983-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2219
Dejanikus (Tacie) Papers, 1967-1992.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2156
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Democratic National Committee. The Campaign Text Book: Why the People Want a Change; The Republican Party Reviewed; Its Sins of Commission and Omission; A Summary of Leading Events in Our History Under Republican Administration. New York: National Democratic Committee, 1880.
Call Number: Special Collections F 199.D45 1880
District of Columbia, Board of Commissioners. Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Washington: GPO. SPEC has: 1874-75, 1877-79, 1881, 1889-94, 1897, 1900, 1905: vol. 1-5, 1908: vol. 1, 1910: vol. 5, 1912: vol. 2, 1933-38, 1943-54, 1956, 1959.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.D7
District of Columbia City Council Records, 1968-1975.
Call Number: Special Collections MS 2080
Duncan (John B.) Papers, 1932-1989.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2055
Durbin, Louise. Inaugural Cavalcade. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.D87
Edson (Arthur L.) Papers, 1950-1968.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2087
Election Law in the District of Columbia and a History of District of Columbia Elections. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971.
Call Number: Special Collections KFD 1620.A844
Evening Star. The Campaign of ’56 in Star Cartoons. Washington: Evening Star, 1956.
Call Number: Special Collections E 839.C35 1956
Fauntroy, Michael K. The Erosion of Home Rule in the District of Columbia: The Impact of Partisan Politics, City-Suburban Politics, and Congressional Intervention, 1973-1998. Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 2000.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.F28 2002a
Fauntroy (Walter) Papers, 1941-1990.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2070
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Fortner, Bernard. A History of the Municipal Recreation Department of the District of Columbia (1790-1954). D.Ed. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1961.
Call Number: Special Collections GV 54.D6 F67 1956a
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
Gobright, L.A. Recollection of Men and Things at Washington: During the Third of a Century. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869.
Call Number: Special Collections F198.G57
Graham (Jim) Papers, 1973-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2013
Gude (Gilbert) Papers, 1967-1976.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2081
Gude, Gilbert. Oral History Interview with Gilbert Gude, Member of Congress from Maryland, 1967 to 1977. Oct. 1978-Jun. 1979.
Call Number: Special Collections E 840.8.G8 A35
Heymann, C. David. The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation’s Capital. New York: Atria Books, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections HQ 1236.5.U6 H49 2003
Home Rule for the District of Columbia, 1973-1974: Background and Legislative History of H.R. 9056, H.R. 9682, and Related Bills Culminating in the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act…December 31, 1974. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2725 1976.A315
Journal of the Council of the City of Washington. Washington: s.n., 1863-71.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.D56
Journal of the Council of the City of Washington. Washington: s.n., 1871-74.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.D61
Journal of the House of Delegates of the District of Columbia. Washington: s.n., 1871-73.
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Call Number: Special Collections F 191.D63
Latimer (Murray Webb) Papers, 1930-1980.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2082
Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington. Washington: The Council, 1819-26, 1849, 1855, 1864.
Call Number: Special Collections KFX 2531.W3 A3
Legislative History of District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, S. 1435. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974.
Call Number: Special Collections KFD 1609.A334 A15 1974
Lessoff, Alan. The Nation and its City: Politics, Corruption, and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.L58 1994
Liberal/Left Archival Studies Papers, 1965-1988.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2096
Lodge (John) Papers, 1935-2008.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2271
Loftin, T.L. Contest for a Capital: George Washington, Robert Morris, and Congress, 1783-1791. Washington: T. Loftin Publishers, 1989.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.L84 1989
Long (Marta) Presidential Memorabilia Collections, 1960-1981.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2099
Macfarland, Henry. The Nation’s Relations with its Capital City: A Series of Seven Articles on the Building of Washington and the Establishment of a Permanent System of Government. Washington: Washington Herald, 1914.
Call Number: Special Collections F 196.M14 1914
Manners in the Senate Chamber: 19th Century Women’s Views. Washington: U.S. Senate Commission on Art and Antiquities, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 1158.M36 1980
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Martin, Douglas. District of Columbia: Current Issues. Hauppauge: Novinka Books, 2003.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.D57 2003
Maury, William M. Alexander "Boss" Shepherd and the Board of Public Works. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4 no. 3
McCabe, James Dabney. Behind the Scenes in Washington. New York: Continental Publishing Company and National Publishing Company, 1873.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.M12
McKinney (Stewart B.) District of Columbia Papers, 1966-1974.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2154
Murdock, Myrtle. Your Uncle Sam in Washington. Washington: Monumental Press, Inc. 1948.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.M8
Murray (Frank) Papers, 1919-1971.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2073
Nathanson (James E.) Papers, 1981-1994.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2049
Noreen, Sarah Pressey. Public Street Illumination in Washington, D.C.: An Illustrated History. Washington: GW Center for Washington Area Studies, 1975.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.G4 no. 2
Noyes, Theodore. The Presidents and the National Capital. Lancaster: Press of the New Era Print. Co., 1917.
Call Number: Special Collections F 195.N95
Poore, Benjamin. The Capitol at Washington. New York: The Century Magazine, 1883.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.C2 P66 1883
Poore, Benjamin Perley. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1886.
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Call Number: Special Collections F 194 P82
Proto (Neil Thomas) Papers, 1968-2006.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2275
Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869.
Call Number: Special Collections Microform, E 185.93.D6 U53
Reminiscences of Washington. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co., 1880-1881.
Call Number: Special Collections F 198.R45 1880
Report of the Commission to Direct and Supervise the Construction of the House Office Building. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912.
Call Number: Special Collections F 204.H8 U5 f
Riggs Family Papers, 1672-1987.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2239
Rimensnyder, Nelson. Charles C. Diggs, Jr.: Chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House or Representatives, Established 27 January 1808. Washington: Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives, 1978.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.B52 no. 2
Rimensynder, Nelson. Delegates to the House from the District of Columbia: Norton P. Chipman and Walter E. Fauntroy. Washington: Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives, 1980.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.B52 no. 3
Rimensynder, Nelson. Local Government in the District of Columbia: Congressionally Chartered Government for the Nation’s Capital, 1801-1871. Washington: Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives, 1977.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.B52 no. 1
Rimensnyder, Nelson. Retrocession of Alexandria, 1846.
Call Number: Special Collections JK 2716.B52 no. 4
Ritchie, Donald. Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Call Number: Special Collections PN 4899.W3 R58 1991
Rush, Jeanne. A Legislative History of the Controversy Over Airport and Airway Development and Funding. Washington: Urban Transportation Center, Consortium of Universities, 1971.
Call Number: Special Collections HE 308.C655 no. 78
Schwartz (Carol) Papers, 1983-1988.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2006
Shackleton (Polly) Papers, 1894-1997.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2031
Shaffer (Samuel) Papers, 1948-1982.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2091
Shroder, Tom. 1877 D.C.: The Year Washington became Washington. Washington: Washington Post, 2002.
Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 400
Smith (Frank, Jr.) Papers, 1987-1998.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2182
Stolzenbach (C. Darwin) Papers, 1930-1988.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2028
Student Protest Collection, 1965-1980.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2093
Tindall, William. The Establishment and Government of the District of Columbia. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901.
Call Number: Special Collections Z 1269.B91
Tindall, William. Origin and Government of the District of Columbia. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907.
Call Number: Special Collections F 194.T632
Tobriner (Walter) Papers, 1949-1968.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2014
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Viola, Herman. Diplomats in Buckskins: A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
Call Number: Special Collections E 93.V784
Washington, D.C. Election Data Collection, 1914-2001.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2205
Wilson (John A.) Papers, 1974-1993.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2190
Winter (Nadine) Papers.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2188