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Friday, December 05, 2008
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Recent Messages
Posted on H-DC
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TALK: Helen Tangires: Public Markets Dec 3, noon
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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FW: National Mall program at National Building Museum (fwd)
"Killmer, Paul" <PKillmer@nbm.org>
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H-DC Review Publication: 'Tysons Corner: A New Twist on Suburban Development' H-Net Staff <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
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H-SHGAPE Review: 'Landscape Architecture and Its Discontents' (fwd)
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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DC Public Library Black Studies Program about Black Washington, DC (fwd)
"Cheney, Andrea (DCPL)" <andrea.cheney@dc.gov>
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ANN: Nov 16, 2008 Don Hawkins on Earliest Washington DC
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Re: Query: DC bank buildings (fwd)
"Williams, Kim (OP)" <kim.williams2@dc.gov>
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DOI Library Park Ranger Speaker Series - "The Architecture of John Russell Pope" George_D_Franchois@nbc.gov
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H-DC Review: 'Unfulfilling Legacy'
H-Net Staff <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
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Revised HPRB November Monthly Notice (fwd)
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Collections Conversations at Historic Dumbarton House, a series of Brown Bag Bri Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Wassail! A Dumbarton House Holiday Celebration--Dec 5, 2008
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Meridian Hill: a Beaux Arts Neighborhood, Nov. 20 (fwd)
Matthew Gilmore <washdchistory@yahoo.com>
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ANN: Celebrating Neighbors Inc's 50th WEDS Nov 12
Matthew Gilmore <washdchistory@yahoo.com>
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Tuesday evening Overbeck Lecture: 'Visualizing Early Washington'
overbecklecture@aol.com
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Press Release: Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation (fwd)
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Query: DC bank buildings (fwd)
David Rotenstein <david.rotenstein@earthlink.net>
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ANN: Preservation League program on Modern Structure preservation
Seth Tinkham <seth@dcpreservation.org>
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CONF: DCHSC 2008 Nov 13-15
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Re: Query: followup on National Public Radio DC-Safeway Story (fwd)
Evelyn E Sinclair <esin@loc.gov>
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"HABS at 75", Friday, November 14
Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 durschel@loc. gov
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Lincoln bicentennial
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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HPRB Actions, October 23, 2008 (fwd)
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Query: followup on National Public Radio DC-Safeway Story (fwd)
Scott Pham <SPham@npr.org>
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Query: Safeway history interview /National Public Radio (fwd)
Scott Pham <SPham@npr.org>
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Chevy Chase HD bid ended
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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HSW Program--Breena Clarke -- Georgtown and slavery
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Takoma History -- Oct 25, 2008
Matthew Gilmore <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Nov. 11 Overbeck Lecture: Visualizing Early Washington (fwd)
overbecklecture@aol.com
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HPRB Agenda and Consent Calendar, Ocotber 23, 2008 (fwd)
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Library of Congress Event: Timothy Egan on FSA Photos (fwd)
Evelyn E Sinclair <esin@loc.gov>
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DOI Library Park Ranger Speaker Series - "The Civil War Defenses of Washington" George_D_Franchois@nbc.gov
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ANN: Dumbarton House collections presentations calendar--first talk Oct 8, 2008
"Melissa Hoggan Groppel" <dumbartonhouse@yahoo.com>
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MLKML workshops--House and Neighborhood history -- Oct 14 & 21, 2008
Matthew Gilmore <vp-net@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
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Re: War of 1812 Symposium, Saturday, October 11th (fwd)
Richard Layman <rlaymandc@yahoo.com>
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Recent Reviews
Posted on H-DC
Reviewer: Zachary M. Schrag, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
Author/Title:
C. Ford Peatross, ed. Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress.
Reviewer: Rosalyn P. Doggett, Senior Development Director, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Author/Title:
Zachary M. Schrag.The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro.
Reviewer: Mary Beth Corrigan, Independent Scholar.
Author/Title:
Josephine F. Pacheco. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac.
Reviewer: Christine Cohn, American University.
Author/Title:
C. R. Gibbs. Black, Copper, and Bright: The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment.
Reviewer: John R. Wennersten, Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Author/Title:
Ernest B. Furgurson. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War.
Reviewer: Denise Meringolo, The George Washington University, Department of American Studies
Author/Title:
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, ed. First Freed: Washington, D.C. in the Emancipation
Era. 2nd ed.
Reviewer: Kenneth R. Bowling, First Federal Congress Project, George Washington University
Author/Title:
Joel Achenbach. The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and
the Race to the West.
Reviewer: M. Montgomery Wolf, Department of History, University of North Carolina
Authors/Titles:
Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson Jr. The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop.
Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. Review Title: Representing D.C.! Go-Go and Punk in the District of Columbia
Reviewer: Matthew Pinsker, Endowed Chair in American Civil War History, Dickinson College
Author/Title:
Jennifer Fleischner. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Reviewer: Michael R. Harrison, National Museum of American History
Author/Title:
Kevin Ambrose, Dan Henry, and Andy Weiss.Washington Weather: The Weather Sourcebook for the D.C. Area.
Review Title: The Capital in a Storm
Reviewer: Christopher H. Sterling, George Washington University
Author/Title:
Edward Steers, Jr. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Michael Burlingame, ed. Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard.
Review Title: Viewing Washington during the Civil War
Reviewer: David Haberstich, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Author/Title:
Peter R. Penczer. Washington, D.C., Past and Present.
Paul K. Williams and T. Luke Young. Washington, D.C.
Alexander D. Mitchell IV. Washington, D.C. Then and Now
Charles Suddarth Kelly. Washington, D.C., Then and Now: 69 Sites Photographed in the Past and Present.
Review Title: Picture Books and the Changing Face of Washington
Reviewer: Alan Lessoff
Authors: Robert Benedetto, Jane Donovan, and Kathleen DuVall.
Title: _Historical Dictionary of Washington, D.C._.
Reviewer: Christopher H. Sterling
Author: Kenneth R. Bowling
Title: _Peter Charles L'Enfant: Vision, Honor, and Male Friendship in the Early American Republic_.
Reviewer: Michael R. Harrison
Author: Iris Miller
Title: _Washington in Maps, 1606-2000._
Reviewer: Mary Beth Corrigan
Author: Mark Perry
Title: _Lift up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders_.
Reviewer: Zachary M. Schrag
Author: Gilbert Hahn, Jr.
Title: _The Notebook of an Amateur Politician: And How He Began the D.C. Subway._
Reviewer: Winfield Swanson
Author: Charles A. Cerami
Title: _Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot_.
Reviewer: Joseph M. Turrini
Author: Tom Deveaux
Title: _The Washington Senators, 1901-1971_.
Reviewer: Zachary M. Schrag, Columbia University
Author: Peter C. Kohler
Title: _Capital Transit: Washington's Street Cars, The Final Era 1933-1962_.
Reviewer: Carey M. Roberts, Department of Social Sciences, Arkansas Tech University
Author: William O. Stoddard
Title: Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary.
Reviewer: David Haberstich, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Author/Title:
Thomas J. Carrier. Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour.
Thomas J. Carrier. Washington, DC: A Historical Walking Tour.
Thomas J. Carrier. The White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court: Historic Self-Guided Tours.
Philip Woodworth Ogilvie. Along the Potomac.
Paul K. Williams. Dupont Circle.
Paul K. Williams. The Neighborhood of Logan, Scott, and Thomas Circles.
Paul K. Williams. Greater U Street.
Review Title: "Et in Arcadia Ego": Images of Washington by Arcadia Publishing
Reviewer: Zachary M. Schrag, Columbia University
Author: William C. Dickinson, Dean A. Herrin, and Donald R. Kennon, eds.
Title: Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital.
Reviewer: Andrew Brodie Smith
Author: Robert K. Headley
Title: Motion Picture Exhibition in Washington, D.C.: An
Illustrated History of Parlors, Palaces and Multiplexes in the
Metropolitan Area, 1894-1997.
Reviewer: Olivia Cadaval , Center
for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
Author: Nelson F. Kofie
Title: Race, Class, and the Struggle for
Neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
Reviewer: Joshua Olsen.
Author: Nicholas D. Bloom
Title: Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the
Transformation of the American Dream
Reviewer: Joshua Olsen.
Author: Cathy D. Knepper
Title: Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the
New Deal
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