Tables of Contents for Washington History

Current and Back Issues of Washington History

• 2010, 22
• 2009, 21
• Combined 2007-2008, 19 & 20
• Combined 2006, 18 (1,2)
• Fall/Winter 2005, 17 (1)
• Fall/Winter 2004-2005, 16 (2)
• Spring/Summer 2004, 16 (1)
• Fall/Winter 2003-2004, 15 (2)
• Spring/Summer 2003, 15 (1)
• Fall/Winter 2002-2003, 14 (2)
• Spring/Summer 2002, 14 (1)
• Fall/Winter 2001-2002, 13 (2)
• Spring/Summer 2001, 13 (1)
• Fall/Winter 2000-2001, 12 (2)
• Spring/Summer 2000, 12 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1999-2000, 11 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1999, 11 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1998-1999, 10 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1998, 10 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1997-1998, 9 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1997, 9 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1996-1997, 8 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1996, 8 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1995-1996, 7 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1995, 7 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1994-1995, 6 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1994, 6 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1993-1994, 5 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1993, 5 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1992-1993, 4 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1992, 4 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1991-1992, 3 (2)
• Spring/Summer 1991, 3 (1)
• Fall/Winter 1990-1991, 2 (2)
• Spring 1990, 2 (1)
• Fall 1989, 1 (2)
• Spring 1989, 1 (1)
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2010, 22

Thomas A. Bogar, “The Origins of Theater in the District of Columbia, 1789-1800,” 5-16.

John Richardson, “Alexander R. Shepherd and t he Race Issue in Washington,” 17-36.

Tom D. Crouch, “The Aero Club of Washington: Aviation in the Nation’s Capital, 1909-1919,” 37-56.

Mark W. Grabowksi, Douglas W. Owsley, and Karin S. Bruwelheide, “Cemetery Vandalism: The Strange Case of William Wirt,” 57-68.

Gail Dickersin Spilsbury, “A Washington Sketchbook: Historic Drawings of Washington,” 69-87

2009, 21

Edna Greene Medford, “Some Satisfying Way: Lincoln and Black Freedom in the District of Columbia," 5-22.

Eric S. Yellin, “It Was Still No South to Us: African American Civil Servants at the Fin de Siecle,” 23-48.

David F Krugler, “A Mob in Uniform: Soldiers and Civilians in Washington’s Red Summer, 1919,” 49-78.

Paul E. Ceruzzi, “How Tysons Went High Tech, 1965-1993,” 79-97.

Combined Issue 2007-2008, 19 & 20

Jeremy Korr, "Political Parameters: Finding a Route for the Capital Beltway, 1950-1964," 5-29

Julie Polter, "Dreams, Schemes, and Plat Maps: Mary Logan and Columbia Heights," 31-49

Faye P. Haskins, "Behind the Headlines: The Evening Star's Coverage of the 1968 Riots," 51-67

Kim Prothro Williams, "The Garden Club of America: Entrance Markers to Washington," 69-75

Don Alexander Hawkins, "An Unpublished Map and the Location of the Federal District," 77-85

Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, "The Legacy of the Bonus Army," 87-96

Combined Issue 2006, 18 (1,2)

Matthew Pinsker, "The Soldiers' Home: A Long Road to Sanctuary," 4-19

Pamela Scott, "The City of Living Green: An Introduction to Washington's Street Trees," 20-45

Charles H. Atherton, "An Insider's Reflections on the Development of Washington 1960-2004," 46-77

Michael G. Rhode, "The Rise and Fall of the Army Medical Museum and Library," 78-97

Lyle Slovick, "George Y. Coffin: A Schoolboy's Life in 19th-Century Washington," 98-119

Anna Watkins, "To Help a Child: The History of the German Orphan Home," 120-138

Fall/Winter 2005, 17 (1)

Jogues R. Prandoni and Suryabala Kanhouwa, "St. Elizabeths Hospital: Photos from 150 Years of Public Service," 4-25

Holly Tank, "Dedicated to Art: William Corcoran and the Founding of his Gallery," 26-51

Holly Tank, "William Wilson Corcoran: Washington Philanthropist," 52-65

Cassandra Good, "A Transcript of My Heart: The Unpublished Diaries of Margaret Bayard Smith," 66-82

Fall/Winter 2004-2005, 16 (2) *Available Back Issue

Clayborne Carson, "The Fateful Turn Toward Brown v. Board of Education," 6-10.

John Hope Franklin, "To and From Brown v. Board of Education," 11-13.

Lisa A. Crooms, "Race, Education and the District of Columbia: The Meaning and Legacy of Bolling v. Sharpe," 14-25.

Mark David Richards, "Public School Governance in the District of Columbia: A Timeline," 23.

Donald Roe, "The Dual School System in the District of Columbia, 1862–1954: Origins, Problems, Protests," 26-43.

David A. Nichols, “The Showpiece of Our Nation”: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Desegregation of the District of Columbia," 44-65.

Marya Annette McQuirter, “Our Cause is Marching On”: Parent Activism, Browne Junior High School, and the Multiple Meanings of Equality in Post-War Washington," 66-82.

Okianer Christian Dark, "The Role of Howard University School of Law in Brown v. Board of Education," 83-85.

Bell Clement, "Pushback: The White Community’s Dissent from Bolling," 86-109.

Ossie Davis, "Marching Toward Justice," 110-113.

Walter B. Hill, Jr., "NARA and Brown v. Board of Education, 1954," 114.

Spring/Summer 2004, 16 (1)

Donna M. Wells, "Walter Edward Washington (1915-2003): A Photo Tribute," 4-15.

Justine Christianson, "The Uline Arena/Washington Coliseum: The Rise and Fall of a Washington Institution," 16-35.

Rubil Morales-Vasquez, "George Washington: the President's House, and the Projection of Executive Power," 36-53.

Mark David Richards, "The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801-2004," 54-82.

Fall/Winter 2003-2004, 15 (2)

Dana Lanier Schaffer, "The 1968 washington Riots in History and Memory," 4-33.

Benjamin R. Justesen, "George Henry White and the End of an Era," 34-51.

Mark Herlong, "Recipes and Remedies from Antebellum Washington: That varnum-Hill Family Household Book," 52-73.

Matthew Gilmore, "Resources," 74-79.

Spring/Summer 2003, 15 (1)

Barbara M. Franco, "The Challenge of a City Museum for Washington, D.C.," 4-25.

Frank Ceresi and Carol McMains, "The Washington Nationals and the Development of America's National Pastime," 26-41.

David Hathaway and Stephanie Ho, "Small But Resilient: Washington's Chinatown Over the Years," 42-61.

James M. Goode, "The Civil War in Washington: Rare Images from the Albert H. Small Collection," 62-79.

Fall/Winter 2002-2003, 14 (2)

Special Issue Commemorating the Centennial of the McMillan Plan with guest editor, Pamela Scott.

Priscilla McNeil, "Pretty Prospects: The History of a Land Grant," 6-25.

Matthew B. Gilmore and Michael R. Harrison, "A Catalog of Suburban Subdivisions of the District of Columbia, 1854-1902," 26-55.

Michael R. Harrison, "Above the Boundary: Teh Developmen of Kalorama and Washington Heights, 1872-1900," 56-69.

Ed Hatcher, "Washington's Nineteenth-Century Citizens' Associations and the Senate Park Commission Plan," 70-95.

Thomas P. Somma, "The McMillan Memorial Fountain: A Short History of a Lost Monument," 96-107.

Spring/Summer 2002, 14 (1) *Available Back Issue

Special Issue Commemorating the Centennial of the McMillan Plan with guest editor, Pamela Scott.

Kenneth R. Bowling, "From 'Federal Town' to 'National Capital': Ulysses S. Grant and the Reconstruction of Washington," D.C., 8-25.

Michael R. Harrison, "The 'Evil of the Misfit Subdivisions': Creating the Permanent System of Highways of the District of Columbia," 26-55.

William B. Bushong, "Glenn Brown and the Planning of the Rock Creek Valley," 56-71.

Fall/Winter 2001-2002, 13 (2)

Mary Beth Corrigan, "Imaginary Cruelties? A History of Slave Trade in Washington, D.C.," 4-27.

Hillary Russell, "Underground Railroad Activists in Washington, D.C.," 28-49.

Richard Longstreth, "The Unusual Transformation of Downtown Washington in the Early Twentieth Century," 50-71.

Spring/Summer 2001, 13 (1)

Zachary M. Schrag, "Mapping Metro, 1955-1968: Urban, Suburban, and Metropolitan Alternatives," 4-23.

Gary Scott, "Clara Barton's Civil War Apartments," 24-31.

Caroline Mesrobian Hickman, "Building for Science: Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory," 32-51.

Leland J. White, "Dividing Highway: Citizen Activism and Interstate 66 in Arlington, Virginia," 52-67.

Fall/Winter 2000-2001, 12 (2)

Austin Kiplinger, "Growing Up in Washington I: An Inside-Outside View," 4-15.

"Growing Up in Washington II: Great Depression and World War II," 17-21.

Richard T. Loomis, "The Telephone Comes to Washington: George C. Maynard, 1839-1919," 22-40.

"Growing Up in Washington III: The Baby Boom Years and their Echo," 41-45.

Faye P. Haskins, "The Art of D.C. Politics: Broadsides, Banners, And Bumper Stickers," 46-63.

"Growing Up in Washington IV: Memorable Moments," 64-70.

Spring/Summer 2000, 12 (1) Coming into the City: Essays on Early Washington (Double Issue)

Kenneth R. Bowling, "A Foreboding Shadow: Newspaper Celebration of the Federal Government's Arrival," 4-7.

Elaine C. Everly, "The Local Impact of the War Office Fire," 8-11.

Rubil Morales-Vazquez, "Imagining Washington: Monuments and Nation Building in the Early Capital," 12-29.

William C. diGiacomantonio, ""To Sell Their Birthright for a Mess of Potage": The Origins of D.C. Governance and the Organic Act of 1801," 30-48.

C.M. Harris, "Washington's 'Federal City,' Jefferson's 'federal town,'" 49-53.

Catherine Allgor, "'Queen Dolley' Saves Washington City," 54-69.

Pamela Scott, "Moving to the Seat of Government: 'Temporary Inconveniences and Privations,'" 70-73.

Don A. Hawkins, "The City of Washington in 1800: A New Map," 74-77.

Marilyn K. Parr, "Chronicle of a British Diplomat: The First Year in the 'Washington Wilderness,'" 78-89.

Mary Beth Corrigan, "Making the Most of an Opportunity: Slaves and the Catholic Church in Early Washington," 90-101.

Cynthia D. Earman, "Remembering the Ladies: Women, Etiquette, Diversions in Washington City, 1800-1814," 102-117.

Cynthia D. Earman, "A Census of Early Boardinghouses," 118-121.

Ruth Ann Overbeck and Lucinda P. Janke, "William Prout: Capitol Hill's Community Builder," 122-139.

Fall/Winter 1999-2000, 11 (2)

John W. Hechinger, Sr., with additional research by Gavin Taylor, "Black and Blue: The D.C. City Council vs. Police Brutality, 1967-1969," 4-23.

Jenell Williams Paris, "Fides Means Faith: A Catholic Neighborhood House In Lower Northwest Washington, D.C.," 24-45.

Frances Copeland Stickles, excerpted and edited, "Mary Shipman's Diary: A Young Woman Tours Official Washington, 1887," 46-64.

Spring/Summer 1999, 11 (1)

David Weinstein, "Women's Shows and the Selling of Television To Washington, D.C.," 4-23.

Eric Ledell Smith, "Lillian Evanti: Washington's African-American Diva," 24-43.

James W. Moeller, "Pepco, the Potomac, and Nuclear Power," 45-61.

Elizabeth A. Hanson, "The Woodville Collection: Five Generations in Georgetown," 62-72

Fall/Winter 1998-1999, 10 (2)

Margaret Thomas Buchholz, "Josephine: The Washington Diary of a War Worker, 1918-1919," 4-23.

William M. Wright, "White City to White Elephant: Washington's Union Station Since World War II," 24-43.

Leslie T. Davol, "Shifting Mores: Esther Bubley's World War II Boarding House Photographs," 44-62.

Spring/Summer 1998, 10 (1)

Edward Mangum, "Washington's Arena Stage Emerges from Church Cocoon," 4-23.

Jane C. Leoffler, "Frederick Gutheim, Capital Catalyst," 24-45.

Joanne Seale Lawson, "Remarkable Foundations: Rose Ishbel Greely, Landscape Architect," 46-69.

Fall/Winter 1997-1998, 9 (2)

Clifford Krainik, "National Vision, Local Enterprise: John Plumbe, Jr., and the Advent of Photography in Washington, D.C.," 4-27.

Kathryn S. Smith, "Remembering U Street," 28-53.

Paul Wice, "Safe Haven: A Memoir of Playground Basketball and Desegregation," 54-71.

Spring/Summer 1997, 9 (1)

Douglas Gomery, "A Movie-Going Capital: Washington, D.C., in the History of Movie Presentation," 4-23.

Julie D. Abell and Petar D. Glumac, "Beneath the MCI Center: Insights into Washington's Historic Water Supply," 24-41.

Sarah S. Amsler, "Washington in Mid-Century: Wymer's Photo Survey, 1948-1952," 42-53.

C. Joseph Nuesse, "Segregation and Desegregation at the Catholic University of America," 54-70.

Fall/Winter 1996-1997, 8 (2)

Jeffrey F. Meyer, "The Eagle and the Dragon: Comparing the Designs of Washington and Beijing," 4-21.

Bobbie Leigus, "A Georgetown Childhood in Mid-Century," 22-37.

Mara Cherkasky, "'For Sale to Colored': Racial Change on S Street, N.W.," 40-57.

Martin G. Murray, "Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals," 58-73.

Spring/Summer 1996, 8 (1)

Bernard Mergen, "Slush Funds: A History of D.C. Snow Management," 4-15.

Kurt Helfrich, "Modernism for Washington? The Kennedys and The Redesign of Lafayette Square," 16-37.

Richard R. Evans, "The 19th-Century High-Tech Systems of Christian Heurich's Mansion," 38-53.

Steven J. Diner, "The City under the Hill," 54-61.

Charles Wesley Harris, "In Whose Interest? Congressional Funding For Washington In the Home-Rule Era," 62-70.

Fall/Winter 1995-1996, 7 (2)

Sam Smith, "The Canaries in Studio A And Other Tales Of Washington Radio," 4-25.

Barbara Franco, "Personal Connections to History: The Context for a Changing Historical Society," 26-35.

Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Wartime Washington Of Henry Gichner," 36-53.

Kathleen Trainor, "'But the Choir Did Not Sing': How the Civil War Split First Unitarian Church," 54-71.

Spring/Summer 1995, 7 (1)

Patricia M. Cook, "'Like the Phoenix': The Rebirth Of the Whitelaw Hotel," 4-23.

Judith H. Lanius and Sharon C. Park, "Martha Wadsworth's Mansion: The Gilded Age Comes to Dupont Circle," 24-45.

Helen Tangires, "Contested Space: The Life and Death of Center Market," 46-67.

Fall/Winter 1994-1995, 6 (2)

Kathryn Allamong Jacob, "'To Gather and Preserve...': The Columbia Historical Society is Founded, 1894," 4-23.

Kathryn Schneider Smith and research assistance by Lucinda Prout Janke, "Today's Historical Society: The Promise of Past and Future," 24-43.

David K. Johnson, "'Homosexual Citizens': Washington's Gay Community Confronts the Civil Service," 44-63.

Alan Lessoff, "Washington Insider: The Early Career of Charles Moore," 64-80.

Spring/Summer 1994, 6 (1)

Julie Berebitsky, "'To Raise as Your Own': The Growth of Legal Adoption in Washington," 4-26.

Martin K. Gordon, Barry R. Sude, and Ruth Ann Overbeck, "Chemical Testing in the Great War: The American University Experiment Station," 28-45.

Marvin Caplan, "Trenton Terrace Remembered: Life in a 'Leftist Nest,'" 46-65.

Michele F. Pacifico, "'Don't Buy Where You Can't Work': The New Negro Alliance of Washington," 66-88.

Fall/Winter 1993-1994, 5 (2)

Ben W. Gilbert. "Toward a Color-Blind Newspaper: Race Relations and the Washington Post," 4-27.

Don Alexander Hawkins, "Unbuilt Washington: The City as it Might Have Been," 28-41.

Christopher A. Thomas, "The Marble of the Lincoln Memorial: 'Whitest, Prettiest, and . . . Best,'" 42-63.

John Michael Vlach, "Evidence of Slave Housing in Washington," 64-74.

Spring/Summer 1993, 5 (1)

Candace Shireman, "The Rise of Christian Heurich and His Mansion," 4-27.

Elizabeth Barthold, "The Predicaments of the 'Parklets': Understanding Washington's Smaller Parks," 28-45.

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, edited with an introduction, "Duty and 'Fast Living': The Diary of Mary Johnson Sprow, Domestic Worker," 46-65.

Fall/Winter 1992-1993, 4 (2)

Spencie Love, "'Noted Physician Fatally Injured': Charles Drew and the Legend that Will Not Die," 4-19.

Elizabeth Hannold, "'Comfort and Respectability': Washington's Philanthropic Housing Movement," 20-39.

Olivia Cadaval, photographs by Rich Reinhard, "'Tirarlo a la Calle/Taking it to the Streets': The Latino Festival and the Making of Community," 40-55.

Kevin Conley Ruffner, "Civil War Letters of a Washington Rebel," 56-71.

Spring/Summer 1992, 4 (1)

Barbara Orbach and Nicholas Natanson, "The Mirror Image: Black Washington in World War II-Era Federal Photography," 4-25.

Abby Arthur Johnson, "'The Memory of the Community': A Photographic Album of Congressional Cemetery," 26-45.

Sarah Davis McBride, "Ornaments of Education: The Material World of National Park Seminary," 46-68.

Fall/Winter 1991-1992, 3 (2)

Kenneth R. Bowling, "The Other G.W.: George Walker and the Creation of the National Capital," 4-21.

Susan L. Klaus, "'Some of the Smartest Folks Here': The Van Nesses and Community Building in Early Washington," 22-45.

Lilian Thomas Burwell, "Reflections on LeDroit Park: Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Her Neighborhood," 46-61.

Spring/Summer 1991, 3 (1)

Don Alexander Hawkins, "The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour," 10-33.

Priscilla W. McNeil, "Rock Creek Hundred: Land Conveyed for the Federal City," 34-51.

William C. diGiacomantonio, "All the President's Men: George Washington's Federal City Commissioners," 52-75.

Silvio A. Bedini, "The Survey of the Federal Territory: Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker," 76-95.

Pamela Scott, "L'Enfant's Washington Described: The City in the Public Press, 1791-1795," 96-111.

Bob Arnebeck, "Tracking the Speculators: Greenleaf and Nicholson in the Federal City," 112-125.

Fall/Winter 1990-1991, 2 (2)

William Bushong and Piera M. Weiss, "Rock Creek Park: Emerald of the Capital City," 4-29.

Mary M. Ison, "Uriah Hunt Painter and the 'Marvelous Kodak Camera,'" 30-47.

Michael Andrew Fitzpatrick, "'A Great Agitation for Business': Black Economic Development in Shaw," 48-73.

Alison K. Hoagland, "The Carnegie Library: The City Beautiful Comes to Mt. Vernon Square," 74-89.

Spring 1990, 2 (1)

Dian Olson Belanger, "The Railroad in the Park: Washington's Baltimore & Potomac Station, 1872-1901," 4-27.

Horace M. Albright, "My Trips with Harold Ickes: Reminiscences of a Preservation Pioneer," 28-50.

Leo J. Kasun, "Henry Arthur Taft: Glimpses of Everyday Life," 50-67.

Jean Kling, "Alice Pike Barney: Bringing Culture to the Capital," 68-89.

Fall 1989, 1 (2)

James M. Goode, "Flying High: The Origin and Design of Washington National Airport," 4-25.

Frank Rives Millikan, "St. Elizabeths Hospital: End of the Cathedral Era," 26-41.

Paul S. Green, Text, and Shirley L. Green, Photo Editing, "Old Southwest Remembered: The Photographs of Joseph Owen Curtis," 42-57.

Diane Shaw Wasch, "Models of Beauty and Predictability: The Creation of Wesley Heights and Spring Valley," 58-76.

Spring 1989, 1 (1)

Diane K. Skvarla, "Nineteenth Century Visitors," 7-23.

Marvin Caplan, "Eat Anywhere!: A personal recollection of the Thompson's Restaurant case and the desegregation of Washington's eating places," 24-39.

Jane Freundel Levey, "The Scurlock Studio," 40-57.

Glenn S. Orlin, "Roads and Parks in Harmony," 58-69.

Benjamin Franklin Cooling, "To Preserve the Peace," 70-86.

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Candace Shireman, "The Rise of the Christian Heurich Mansion."

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