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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Recent Messages
Posted on H-DC
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DC Preservation League: Upcoming Events
"Amanda McDonald" <amanda@dcpreservation.org>
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Ribbons, Roses & Wine in the Garden to Celebrate Tudor Place Box Knot Rededication
"Mandy Katz" <mkatz@tudorplace.org>
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Next meeting of the Friends of the MLK Memorial Library on 5-22]
"Katharina Hering" <khering23@gmail.com>
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Palisades Museum of Prehistory at Artomatic]
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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HPRB Agenda and Consent Calendar, May 24 and May 31, 2012]
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Re: Arlington Cemetery to Hold Historic Taps Event
"A. Loikow" <aloikow@verizon.net>
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Civil War HistoryMobile visit Falls Church
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Celebrating Historic Georgia Avenue
"Elizabeth Hill" <humanitiescouncilwdc@yahoo.com>
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Query: New Negro Alliance
"Carter, Derrais" <derrais-carter@uiowa.edu>
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Frank Gehry - changes in Eisenhower memorial design
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
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Hill East development
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Arlington Cemetery to Hold Historic Taps Event
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Prince George's County Preservation Reception
"Aaron Marcavitch" <aaron@anacostiatrails.org>
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National Museum of African American History and Culture preview]]
"Carolyn Crouch" <cbcrouch@starpower.net>
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National Museum of African American History and Culture preview]
"Carolyn Crouch" <cbcrouch@starpower.net>
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2012 DC Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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OBIT: Mark Mack
maryjbelcher@comcast.net
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"Hidden History of Alexandria, DC" Author Talk
"Jerry A. McCoy" <sshistory@yahoo.com>
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Lecture on Washington's Society of the Cincinnati porcelain, May 15]
"Emily Schulz" <eschulz@societyofthecincinnati.org>
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Eisenhower Memorial Commission (EMC) meeting on May 15, 2012
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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HPRB McMillan Reservoir Hearing Process
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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EXHB: AIA and the Plan of the Nation’s Capital, Historical Symmetry 1900-2012
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Unbuilt Washington trio
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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What’s Out There Weekend-landscape architecture tours
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Jewish American Heritage Month Programs at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library]
"Harper, Cassandra Y. (DCPL)" <cassandra.harper@dc.gov>
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Doug Dupin on Palisades archaeology
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Tudor Place Box Knot Garden Rededicated
"Mandy Katz" <mkatz@tudorplace.org>
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Reminder: Visualizing the Nation's Capital: Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C. [H-DC] 'Envisioning a New Republic-- Cartography from 1750-1800' -May 18-19, 2012]]
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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Raze applications received by HPO 05.10.2012 -- including 1015, 1017 K St NW/1001 11th St NW
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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Re: Yarrow Mamout's lot in Georgetown (property sold to real estate developer)
"Jim Johnston" <jamesh.johnston@gmail.com>
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Quirks of the L'Enfant Plan
"Matthew Gilmore, editor H-DC" <dc-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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WWW: Virtual Architectural Archaeology: Recreating Washington's Lost Architecture
shansen@dchistoricdesigns.com
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HPO Monthly Public Notice May 2012 [also advance notice of 1017 K St NW hearing]
"Yarnall, Bruce (OP)" <bruce.yarnall@dc.gov>
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History Behind the Headlines: News from HSW
"HSW Friends" <info@historydc.org>
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More on 1017 K Street NW -- Streets of Washington blog
"John DeFerrari" <jdeferrari@gmail.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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