Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Modern City, 1875–1900
Chapter 1. The New Urban Landscape
Chapter 2. Washingtonians
Part II: Government City, 1900–1932
Chapter 3. Working in a Company Town
Chapter 4. The Remade Center
Chapter 5. A Web of Communities
Chapter 6. Divided Lives
Part III: Governing City, 1933–1945
Chapter 7. New Deal Capital
Chapter 8. A Bourgeois Town
Chapter 9. Homefront Headquaters
Part IV: Emergent Metropolis, 1945–1965
Chapter 10. The American Way of Life
Chapter 11. The Changing City
Chapter 12. The Region Reshaped
Epilogue
Notes on Sources
List of Photo Credits
Index

About the Author

Fredric M. Miller is former director of Temple University's Urban Archives Center and co-author of Still Philadelphia and Philadelphia Stories. Since 1989 he has been a program officer with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Howard Gillette Jr. is professor of American Civilization and History at George Washington University, where he was founder and first director of the Center for Washington Area Studies. He has been editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and a frequent contributor to books and journals on American urban and political history.

Reviews

This long overdue volume takes a nuanced look at familiar photographs and also serves to circulate widely for the first time many others, depicting all classes and strata of society. Washington History Miller and Gillette selected more than 350 black and white photographs that reveal something of the lives of the people who inhabited the nation's capital between the Guilded Age and the Great Society. American History