On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington DC (Capital Travels)

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Description

Now for a new generation of DC residents and visitors—a celebration of Washington, DC, its history, people, and neighborhoods—through fascinating archival photos and full of life accounts.

This isn’t a standard guidebook. It’s a book that carries you back in time to meet the women and men who built and developed our Nation’s Capital—not just the political types, but also the spies, murderers, bartenders, and writers. Stand on the spots where they stood when historic events took place, like the Fort McNair tennis courts, the historic spot where the Lincoln assassination conspirators were hanged. See the now august buildings and landscapes through the historical standpoint of the rough, dirty, unhealthy place Washington once was once. Neighborhood by neighborhood and the usage of the 19 illustrated maps in On This Spot, you’ll commute through Washington, DC’s history by yourself.

Features the sites where:

* Important events took place
* Famous people from American history lived, worked, and died
* DC’s changing neighborhoods
* Buildings which were lost and those which were saved

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