A history lover's guide to Washington, D.C.
Subtitle: designed for democracy
By: Alison B. Fortier ; photographs by Gregory O'Hanlon ; drawings by Joseph Harrison Snyder
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781626195295
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Buildings, structures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of Washington, D.C; title: Designed for democracy; title: The White House; title: The United States capitol; title: The Library of Congress; title: The Treasury Department; title: The departments of State, War and the rest; title: The Mall and the Smithsonian; title: President lincoln and the civil war in d.c; title: Restoring the L'Enfant plan; title: Capital of the free world; title: Washington, D.C., and twentieth-century change.