What Once Was
News for the Capital and the Nation: Politics and Washington’s Daily Newspapers
Published: March 21st, 2018
To view images full size & high resolution, left click on each By Matthew B. Gilmore* In August of 1800, Samuel Harrison Smith wrote to James Madison confirming Smith’s intention of publishing a newspaper in the new capital city (and requesting Madison’s help): “To James Madison “From Samuel Harrison Smith, 27 August 1800 “Philada. Aug. ...
Making Washington’s “Swampoodle”: Irish Neighborhood in the Tiber Valley
Published: February 4th, 2018
One Final Flutter at Benning — the End of Horse Race Gambling in the District of Columbia
Published: January 1st, 2018
Memories Fade: Washington’s most memorialized (and least known) President
Published: October 21st, 2017
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity: Ninety years of manufactured weather in Washington
Published: September 1st, 2017
“Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act
Published: July 20th, 2017
Past Planning for the Future: DC’s 1950 Comprehensive Plan … or, Planning Atomic-Age Washington
Published: April 10th, 2017
Georgetown Becomes Colonial — Reborn at 200: Georgetown’s 1951 Bicentenary Celebration
Published: March 14th, 2017
