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While there have been many books on the architecture and planning of this iconic city, Building Washington explains the engineering and construction behind it.

Public works --- City planning --- Washington (D.C.) --- Washinton (D.C.) --- Vashington (D.C.) --- Wāshinṭūn (D.C.) --- Nation's Capital (D.C.) --- Corporation of the City of Washington (D.C.) --- Washington City (D.C.) --- Federal City (D.C.) --- Wash. (D.C.) --- City of Washington (D.C.) --- DC (D.C.) --- D.C. (D.C.) --- District of Columbia --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Вашингтон (D.C.) --- Vasington (D.C.) --- Huachengdun (D.C.) --- 华盛顿 (D.C.)

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In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in the American struggle over equality. After slavery's demise, the question of racial equality produced a multifaceted debate about who should have which rights and privileges, and in which places. Masur shows that black Washingtonians demanded public respect for their organizations and equa

African Americans --- History --- Politics and government --- Civil rights --- Suffrage --- Washington (D.C.) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Washinton (D.C.) --- Vashington (D.C.) --- Wāshinṭūn (D.C.) --- Nation's Capital (D.C.) --- Corporation of the City of Washington (D.C.) --- Washington City (D.C.) --- Federal City (D.C.) --- Wash. (D.C.) --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- District of Columbia --- City of Washington (D.C.) --- DC (D.C.) --- D.C. (D.C.) --- Вашингтон (D.C.) --- Vasington (D.C.) --- Huachengdun (D.C.) --- 华盛顿 (D.C.) --- Black people

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Home rule --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- State Government - U.S. --- Home rule (District of Columbia) --- Washington (D.C.) --- Washinton (D.C.) --- Vashington (D.C.) --- Wāshinṭūn (D.C.) --- Nation's Capital (D.C.) --- Corporation of the City of Washington (D.C.) --- Washington City (D.C.) --- Federal City (D.C.) --- Wash. (D.C.) --- City of Washington (D.C.) --- DC (D.C.) --- D.C. (D.C.) --- District of Columbia --- Politics and government --- Вашингтон (D.C.) --- Vasington (D.C.) --- Huachengdun (D.C.) --- 华盛顿 (D.C.) --- Home rule - Washington (D.C.) --- Washington (D.C.) - Politics and government - 1967-1995 --- #SBIB:324H40 --- #SBIB:328H31 --- Politieke structuren: algemeen --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA

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Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols--from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and explores its meaning for our national consciousness.

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"Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived"--

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