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The Second Amendment on trial
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ISBN: 1613762585 9781613762585 9781558499959 1558499954 9781558499942 1558499946 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amherst


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Building Washington
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ISBN: 1421424886 9781421424880 9781421424873 1421424878 Year: 2018 Publisher: Baltimore

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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.


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Civil War Washington
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ISBN: 9780803269934 0803269935 9780803262867 0803262868 9780803269910 9780803269927 0803269919 0803269927 9781336010123 1336010126 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation's capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal government's experiment in compensated emancipation, which went into effect when all of the capital's slaves were freed in April 1862. Another essay explores the city's place as a major center of military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other contributors refle


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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
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ISSN: 23287179 Year: 1897 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Columbia Historical Society,


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Washington History
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ISSN: 23287195 10429719

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Since its founding in 1894, the Historical Society has been publishing articles about the people and events in the city's past and present. In 1989 the publications shifted from the hardback Records of the Columbia Historic Society to a magazine format Washington History.


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An example for all the land
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ISBN: 0807899321 0807834149 9780807899328 9781469606262 1469606267 9780807834145 9780807872666 0807872660 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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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

A belle of the fifties
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ISBN: 0585296111 0817310207 9780585296111 9780817309862 0817309861 0817309861 Year: 1999 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

Congress and the governance of the nation's capital : the conflict of federal and local interests.
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ISBN: 0585214271 9780585214276 0878405631 9780878405633 087840564X 9780878405640 1589013018 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) Georgetown university press

Public opinion and the political future of the nation's capital
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ISBN: 0585220700 9780585220703 0878406220 0878406239 9780878406227 9780878406234 1589014006 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press,

Myths in stone
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ISBN: 0520921348 159734768X 9780520921344 0585391777 9780585391779 9781597347686 9780520214811 0520214811 0520214811 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley, CA University of California Press

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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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