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(Partial) DC bibliography -- Mark David Richards

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Adams, Henry. Democracy: An American Novel. 1994.

Arnebeck, Bob. Through A Fiery Trial: Building Washington 1790-1800. 1991.

Bagdikian, Ben. The Five Different Washingtons. Bill Adler (Ed.), Washington: A Reader. 1967.

Barras, Jonetta Rose. The Last of the Black Emperors: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders. 1998.

Best, Judith. National Representation for the District of Columbia. 1984.

Billings, Elden E. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 60-62, Shepherd and His Unpublished Diaries and Correspondence. 1963.

Borchert, James. Alley Life in Washington-Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970. 1982.

Borland, Hon. William Patterson. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 18, 1915, The Relation of the District of Columbia to the General Government. 1915.

Bowling, Kenneth R. New Light on the Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783: Federal-State Confrontation at the Close of the War for Independence. Offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume CI, Number 4, October 1977.

Bowling, Kenneth R. Creating the Federal City, 1774-1800: Potomac Fever. Octagon Research Series. 1988.

Bowling, Kenneth R. The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital. 1991.

Bowling, Kenneth R. Bundesdorf or Bundeshaupstadt: The Debate Over the Location of the American and German Capitals. Presented to the German Historical Institute Conference, 1999.

Bowling, Kenneth R. and Kennon, Donald R., (Eds.) Inventing Congress: Origins and Establishment of the First Federal Congress. 1999.

Bryan, W. B. Correspondence: Monument of Alexander Hamilton. Records of the Columbia Historical Society Vol. 25. 1923.

Bryan, Wilhelmus B. The District Government During the Past Quarter of a Century. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 33-34, 1932: 1932.

Bryan, Wilhelmus B. A History of the National Capital, Vol. I (1790-1814) and II (1815-1878). 1914.

Bryce, James and Taft, William Howard. Washington: The Nation's Capital. Speech to the Committee of One Hundred on the Development of Washington, D.C., reprinted in The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XXVII, March 1915.

Cable, Mary. The Avenue of the Presidents. 1969.

Caemmerer, H. Paul. A Manual on the Origin and Development of Washington. 1939.

Caemmerer, H. Paul. The Life of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Planner of the City Beautiful, The City of Washington. 1950.

Cary, Francine Curro (Ed.). Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History Of Washington, D.C. 1996.

Casselman, Amos Burr. The Virginia Portion of the District. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 12, 1909.

Castle, Guy. The Washington Area between 1608 and 1708, with a Biographical Note on Prince George of Denmark. Rosenberger, Francis (Ed.). Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1963-1965. 1966.

Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913.

Clark, Allen C. Colonel Benjamin G. Orr, Mayor. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 28. 1926.

Clark, Allen C. Origin of the Federal City. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 35-36, 1935.

Cosentino, Andres, J. and Glassie, Henry H. The Capital Image: Painters in Washington 1800-1915. 1983.

Cox, William V. Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia. 1901.

Davidson, Bill. A City in Trouble. Bill Adler (Ed.), Washington: A Reader. 1967.

Derthick, Martha. City Politics in Washington, D.C. 1962.

DiGiacomantonio, William C. "To Sell Their Birthright for a Mess of Potage": The Origins of the D.C. Governance And the Organic Act of 1801," published in "Coming into the City: Essays on Early Washington, D.C. Commemorating the Bicentennial of the Federal Government's Arrival in 1800," Washington History, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2000.

Diner, Steven J. Democracy, Federalism And The Governance Of The Nation's Capital: 1790-1974. 1987.

Diner, Steven J. The Governance of Education in the District of Columbia: An Historical Analysis of Current Issues, Dept. of Urban Studies, University of the District of Columbia, Paper No. 2, 1982.

Douglass, Frederick. A Lecture on Our National Capital. 1875.

Dunn, Charles A.R. The Origins of the District of Columbia Flag. Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 1961.

Ecker, Grace Dunlop. A Portrait of Old GeorgeTown. 1933.

Eldredge, H. Wentworth, (Ed.) World Capitals: Toward Guided Urbanization. 1975.

Ellis, John B. The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital: A Work Descriptive of Washington City In all Its Various Phases. 1869.

Gale, Dennis E. Washington, D.C.: Inner City Revitalization And Minority Suburbanization. 1987.

Gardner, William M. Native Americans: Early Encounters, Francine Curro Cary (Ed.). 1996.

George Washington Bicentennial Commission. 1932.

Gilbert, Ben W. and the staff of The Washington Post. Ten Blocks From the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968. 1968.

Gillette Jr., Howard. Between Justice And Beauty: Race, Planning, And The Failure Of Urban Policy In Washington, D.C. 1995.

Green, Constance McLaughlin. The Secret City: A History Of Race Relations In The Nation's Capital. 1967.

Green, Constance, McLaughlin. Washington, Village And Capital, 1800-1878. 1962.

Green, Constance, McLaughlin. Washington Capital City, 1879-1950, Vol. II. 1963.

Hansen, Carl F. Danger in Washington: The Story of My Twenty Years in the Public Schools in the Nation's Capital. 1968.

Hanson, Royce and Ross, Bernard. Governing the District of Columbia: An Introduction. 1971.

Harris, Bill. Black and White Washington. 1995.

Harris, Charles Wesley. Congress and the Governance of the Nation's Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests. 1995.

Harris, Charles Wesley and Thornton, Alvin. Perspectives of Political Power in the District of Columbia. 1981.

Harris, Charles Wesley. Congress and Home Rule in the Nation's Capital: District of Columbia Appropriations. Paper presented at the 1990 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 1990.

Harris, Charles Wesley. Federal and Local Interests in the Nation's Capital: Congress and the District of Columbia Appropriations. Public Budgeting and Finance 9, no. 4, Winter 1989.

Harris, Charles Wesley and Harris, Neeka. Conflicting Vistas in the Nation's Capital. Catholic University Law Review. 38, no 3, Spring 1989.

Harris, C.M. "Washington's 'Federal City,' and Jefferson's 'federal town,'" published in "Coming into the City: Essays on Early Washington, D.C. Commemorating the Bicentennial of the Federal Government's Arrival in 1800," Washington History, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2000.

Hart, Albert Bushnell. History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration, Tributes to Washington. 1932.

Jackson, Donald and Twohig, Dorothy (Eds.). The Diaries of George Washington, Vol. VI, January 1790-December 1799. 1979.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1964 (1861).

Johnson, Thomas R. Reconstruction Politics in Washington: 'An Experimental Garden for Radical Plants. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 50, 1980: 1980.

Jones, George J. et al. Washington, Yesterday and Today, written by social studies teachers in D.C. under the direction of George J. Jones, with forward by Frank W. Ballou, Superintendent of Schools. 1943.

Junior League of Washington. The City Of Washington: An Illustrated History. 1977.

Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. 2000.

Knebel, Fletcher. Washington-Democracy's Home Town. Bill Adler (Ed.), Washington: A Reader. 1967.

Ladner, Joyce A. (ed.). The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture. 1973.

Lannie, Garrine P. Shadow Representatives in Congress: History and Current Developments. 1991.

LaRoche, George S, attorney for the Plaintiffs, Memorandum in Support of Motion by Twenty Citizens of the District of Columbia, Plaintiffs in Adams v. Clinton, for Summary Judgment, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of Adams v. Clinton, Civil Case No. 98-1665 (Dec. 22, 1998).

Latimer, Louise Payson. Your Washington and Mine. 1924.

Lear, Tobias. Observations on the River Potomack, the Country Adjacent, and the City of Washington. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 8, 1905.

Leech, Margaret. Reveille In Washington: 1860-1865. 1941.

Lessoff, Alan. The Nation And Its City: Politics, "Corruption," And Progress In Washington, D.C., 1861-1902. 1994.

Liebow, Elliot. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. 1967.

Matteson, David. Frontier Background of Washington's Career; Washington the Colonial and National Statesman; Washington and the Constitution. Hart, Albert Bushnell, (Ed.). History of The George Washington Bicentennial Celebration, Vol. 1 Literature Series, U.S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C., 1932.

Meyer, Donald Beekman. Bridges and the City of Washington. 1974.

McMurtry, Virginia A. A Legislative History of the 23rd Amendment. 1977.

McGovern, Stephen J. The Politics of Downtown Development-Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. 1998.

McGuire, Matthew F. An Anecdotal History of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 1801-1976. The Judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, May 1966.

Melder, Keith. City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Washington, District of Columbia, Second Edition. 1997.

Meyers, Edward M. Public Opinion and the Political Future of the Nation's Capital. 1996.

Myers, Gibbs. Pioneers in the Federal Area. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1943.

National Capital Planning Commission. The Proposed Comprehensive Plan For The National Capital, February 1967.

Noel, F. Regis, and Downing, Margaret Brent. The Court-House of the District of Columbia. 1919.

Noyes, Theodore W. The Presidents and the National Capital. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 20, 1917, 1917.

Proctor, John Clagett. Washington Past and Present: A History. 1930.

O'Cleireacain, Carol. The Orphaned Capital: Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia. 1997.

Parr-Moore, Rae (ed.). A Decade of Home Rule: The Challenge Continues. 1985.

Proudfit, S.V. Aboriginal Occupancy of the District of Columbia. Larner, John (Ed.). Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 25. 1923.

Raskin, Jamin B. Is This America ? The District of Columbia and the Right to Vote. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter, 1999.

Richards, Mark David. Citizens' Guide to the Congressional Approval Process for Washington, DC's Local Budget. FY 2002 Case Study of how DC's local budget is developed and sent to the President and Congress for the federal appropriations process. February 2002

Richards, Mark David. Social Movements In The U.S.: Searching For Environmental Justice In A Democratic Age: Review Of The Discourse On Environmental Inequality. Summer 1996

Richards, Mark David. Opinion Survey of Residents Of The Cairo (A Washington, D.C. Condominium In Dupont East). Bisconti Research, Inc., 1997.

Richards, Mark David. Sequence Of Events: A Concise History Of The Relationship Between The U.S. Federal Government and The District Of Columbia. Reference guide (timeline) comparing U.S. federal history to D.C. local history. Summer 1997.

Richards, Mark David. U.S. Public Opinion On Principles Of Governance For Washington, District Of Columbia. Report on a telephone survey 1,049 U.S. adults between September 12-14, 1997. Report also includes a history of voting rights in D.C. Spring 1998.

Richards, Mark David. Survey Of Mayoral Candidates On The Status Of Democracy In Washington, D.C. Report and verbatim comments from D.C. mayoral candidates collected July 4-24, 1998 for the Stand Up for Democracy in D.C. Coalition.

Richards, Mark David. Evaluation Of 26 Guidebooks About Visiting Washington, D.C.: A Content Analysis Of Popular Washington, D.C. Tourist Guidebooks From A D.C. Point-Of-View, 1999.

Richards, Mark David. Hope and Delusion: Struggle for Democracy in the District of Columbia, 2001. Doctoral dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Public Policy from the Graduate College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences of The Union Institute University.

Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. 1979.

Rimensnyder, Nelson. Rhodes Tavern and the History of the Planning, Development, and Institutions of the Nation's Capital, 1799-1981. Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives, Paper presented at 1982 Annual Washington, D.C. History Conference, Feb. 13, 1982.

Rimensnyder, Nelson. Josephine Butler gave D.C. statehood hope. Letter to the editor, The Washington Times, Friday, April 25, 1997.

Rivlin, Alice. Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities. Financing the Nation's Capital, (Known as the Rivlin Report), Nov. 1990.

Rountree, Helen. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia; Their Traditional Culture. 1989.

Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America. 1997.

Sherwood, Tom and Jaffe, Harry S. Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. 1994.

Schrag, Philip G. Behind the Scenes: The Politics of a Constitutional Convention. 1985.

Schrag, Philip P. The Future of District of Columbia Home Rule. Catholic University Law Review 39, no. 2, Winter 1990.

Siegel, Fred. The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., And The Fate Of America's Big Cities. 1997.

Skaggs, David Curtis. Roots of Maryland Democracy-1753-1776. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, Inc., Contributions in American History, No. 30, 1973.

Smith, Sam. Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington. 1974.

Smith, Kathryn Schneider, Editor. Washington At Home. 1988.

Spandorf, Lily. Washington Never More. 1988.

Taft, William Howard and Bryce, James. Washington, The Nation's Capital. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1913 and 1915.

Taylor, Duane R. Home Rule in the District of Columbia: The First 500 Days. 1977.

Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle. Our Neighbors on La Fayette Square, A Junior League Reprint. From the library of the American Institute of Architects, in cooperation with The Octagon, 1872.

The Government of the District of Columbia, Office of Policy and Evaluation, Indices: A Statistical Index To District Of Columbia Services, 1994-1996.

Tindall, William. A Sketch of Mayor Sayles J. Bowen. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 18, 1915.

Tindall, William. Naming the Seat of Government of the United States: A Legislative Paradox. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 23, 1920.

Vose, Clement E. When District of Columbia Representation Collides with the Constitutional Amendment Institution. Publius, Winter 1979.

Washington, George. The Writings of George Washington Relating to the National Capital. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 17, 1914.

Weaver, Kent R. and Harris, Charles Wesley. Who's in Charge Here? Congress and the Nation's Capital. The Brookings Review 7, no. 3, Summer 1989.

Wheaton, Henry (Ed.). U.S. Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, February Term 1820, Vol. 5. 1820

Whitson, Skip. Washington, D.C. 100 Years Ago. 1976.

Woodward, Augustus Brevoort. Enquiries into the Necessity or Expediency of Assuming Exclusive Legislation over The District of Columbia. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 8, 1905.

Yates, Robert, Hon. Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the late Hon. Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and one of the delegates from that state, Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States, 69th Congress, 1st Session-House Document No. 398. 1927.

Young, James Sterling. The Washington Community 1800-1828. 1966.

Zeitlin, Irving M. Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory. 1987.

Capital Publishing Company, Inc. The 49 Capitol Buildings of the United States. 1938.

Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act of 1973. 96th Congress, 1st sess., 1979.

Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Home Rule for the District of Columbia, 1973 to 1974. 93rd Congress, 2d sess., 1974.

Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Impediments to the Economic, Functional, and Aesthetic Development of the District of Columbia, the Nation's Capital (committee self report). 94th Congress, 2d sess., 1976.

Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Governance of the Nation's Capital: A Summary History of the Forms and Powers of Local Government for the District of Columbia, 1790 to 1973. 101st Congress, 2d sess., 1990.

District of Columbia. Home Rule Papers. Washingtoniana Room, Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.

Mark David Richards, Ph.D.
Compiled for his dissertation: “Hope and Delusion: Struggle for Democracy in the District of Columbia.” 2000