Capital City Anthology Writings on Washington D.C. from the Founding Era to the Civil War |
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Author:
| Washington, George Weld, Isaac Harriott, John Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duke Wolcott, Oliver Adams, Abigail Moore, Thomas Melish, John Jennings, Paul Gleig, George Robert Hall, Francis Fearon, Henry Bradshaw Levasseur, Auguste Hall, Basil Poore, Benjamin Perley Trollope, Francis Power, Tyrone Martinea, Harriet Marryat, Frederick Hone, Philip de Bacourt, Adolphe Fourier Northup, Solomon Dickens, Charles. Atwater, Caleb Drayton, Daniel Bremer, Fredrika Trollope, Anthony Greenhow, Rose O'Neal Alcott, Louisa May. Williamson, James J. Whitman, Walt. Baker, Lafayette C. Carpenter, Francis Bicknell Brooks, Noah |
Illustrator:
| Sasche, Edward |
Editor:
| Philips, Christopher Lee |
ISBN: | 978-1-962179-09-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2024 |
Publisher: | Ether Editions
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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Washington, D.C., the "District of Columbia," has served as the permanent capital of the United States of America since 1800. From its post-revolutionary era founding through the American Civil War, the fledgling capital city slowly but persistently evolved from an ambitious plan conceived on paper into a rapidly expanding national metropolis. During this formative era, domestic and international observers captured the city's growth and development in their personal and published...
More DescriptionWashington, D.C., the "District of Columbia," has served as the permanent capital of the United States of America since 1800. From its post-revolutionary era founding through the American Civil War, the fledgling capital city slowly but persistently evolved from an ambitious plan conceived on paper into a rapidly expanding national metropolis. During this formative era, domestic and international observers captured the city's growth and development in their personal and published writings. Among these observers were journalists, novelists, poets, politicians, social activists, soldiers, spies, tourists, and travel writers. They came to the city from different states among the former English colonies. European visitors were often critical of the new capital city. Indeed, a few visitors came to the city with the expressed intention of writing about it. Some merely passed through the city as travelers enroute to other destinations, while others became brief, long-term, or even permanent residents. Those who stayed, however long, often had governmental duties to perform or business, diplomatic, and military affairs to administer. Although the capital city was first and foremost political in nature and purpose, a vibrant social life eventually flourished. This Capital City Anthology presents excerpts from the writings of these contemporary observers as manifested in diaries, documents, histories, fiction, guidebooks, letters, memoirs, poetry, and travelogues. Taken together, they offer readers a chronologically arranged, first-person account of the early evolution of Washington, D.C.