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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046

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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Judah Delano
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: United States. Commission of Fine Arts
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Author: Constance McLaughlin Green
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400847699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1093

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A one-volume edition, this history of Washington was originally published in two parts. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878 was awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Historic American Buildings Survey
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Salmon Portland Chase
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384728
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Author: Rachel A. Shelden
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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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.