- A Timeline of Washington DC History
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- What Once Was: Pensions, portfolios, and printing: J. Worth Carnahan in Washington, D.C. – Resources
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- A Timeline of Washington DC History
- About
- Alexander R. Shepherd: Washington’s Coriolanus – The Washington Center – October 6, 2015
- Bibliographies
- Bibliography – Bonus Army
- Bibliography – Irish Washington DC
- Cartographic discursion – Mapping Brexit results
- Commandeered Housing in WWI Washington, DC: A Federal Landlording Nightmare – Property List
- Commandeered Housing in WWI Washington, DC: A Federal Landlording Nightmare–References and Resources
- CONTACT ME – Buy my books – credits
- DC history FAQs
- District of Columbia Building Height Timeline
- District of Columbia Population History
- Dragging Washington through the Mud – Election 1876 (and 1880 too!)
- H-DC – discussion list for Washington DC history
- High cost of living in the District of Columbia – 1919
- House History Resources
- Interviews with Washington D.C. website creators
- Interviews with Washington DC History Authors
- Interviews with Washington DC Novelists
- Major Local Washington DC Institutions for Historical Research
- Maps
- People and Scandals in Washington DC – Resources for Research — The Washington Center – March 2015
- Photograph research tools
- Slavery and Emancipation in Washington, D.C. – Updated Bibliography
- Timeline – Washington’s Lost Month: the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in the District of Columbia
- October 1, 1918
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- Underground wires – Reports and Legislation relating to
- V Street Houses–appendix to: Where did Washington DC’s 1950 Population of 800,000 Live?
- Washington DC Museums – A concise, complete list – updated – January 2020
- Washington Monument Dedication February 21, 1885
- What Once Was columns from The InTowner
- What Once Was–Making Washington’s “Swampoodle”: Irish Neighborhood in the Tiber Valley – References and Resources
- What Once Was: 1845—Washington’s First Thanksgiving – Resources
- What Once Was: Food on the Streets: Street vending in the District of Columbia
- What Once Was: Food on the Streets: Street vending in the District of Columbia — Resources
- What Once Was: Franklin Square: Park or Parking? Evolution of a Public Space
- What Once Was: Franklin Square: Park or Parking? Evolution of a Public Space — Resources
- What Once Was: Liberty Loan and Washington’s World War I Tempos-References and Resources
- What Once Was: Merry Christmas, Washington
- What Once Was: Naming Washington Neighborhoods
- What Once Was: News for the Capital and the Nation: Politics and Washington’s Daily Newspapers
- What Once Was: News for the community: Origins of Washington’s neighborhood newspaper tradition
- What Once Was: One Final Flutter at Benning — the End of Horse Race Gambling in the District of Columbia – References and Resources
- What Once Was: Pensions, portfolios, and printing: J. Worth Carnahan in Washington, D.C. – Footnotes
- What Once Was: Pneumatic tubes: technological innovation and politics in Shepherd-era Washington DC
- What Once Was: Pneumatic tubes: technological innovation and politics in Shepherd-era Washington DC — Resources
- What Once Was: Teddy Roosevelt and Washington DC’s “Smoke Nuisance”
- What Once Was: Teddy Roosevelt and Washington DC’s “Smoke Nuisance” — Resources
- What Once Was: Washington Welcome the Automobile, part 1 – Resources
- What Once Was: Washington Welcome the Automobile, part 2 – Resources
- What Once Was: Washington Welcomes the Automobile, part 1
- What Once Was: Washington Welcomes the Automobile, part 2
- What Once Was: Washington’s first bicycle craze— ‘Cycling in the 1880s and 1890s – References and Resources
- What Once Was: Washington’s Lost Month: the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Washington DC
- What Once Was: Where did Washington DC’s 1950 Population of 800,000 Live?
- What Once Was: Pensions, portfolios, and printing: J. Worth Carnahan in Washington, D.C. – Resources
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