washington (d.c.)

When Anne Johnson begins hearing voices in her head warning her that there will be a murder in her apartment building in thirty days, she sets out to stop the killer before time runs out.

Traces three hundred years of African-American involvement in the history of Washington's life and culture, with hundreds of photographs, period paintings, and documents profiling key people, events, and contributions.

Draws on personal and newspaper accounts, diary records, and folklore to present double portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman, discussing how the two became kindred spirits, despite their profound differences in position and circumstance during the Civil War.

Tells the story of the Homestead Grays, the Negro League's most successful franchise during the 1940s, and discusses the baseball team's role, along with crusading journalist Sam Lacy, in moving toward integration of the sport.

When a local drug czar is jailed on murder charges and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty, private investigator Derek Strange, agrees to help with the case, but he soon learns he is in over his head and may find himself put to death.

Examines the roles that five powerful women from the Washington, D.C., village of Georgetown--Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, Evangeline Bruce, Pamela Harriman, and Sally Quinn--have played in American political history through their social connections.

Showcases works that parallel developments in modern life during the coarse of the twentieth century as American artists absorbed European avant-garde styles and translated them into a native idiom.

Describes the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 during which Martin Luther King, Jr., gave the "I have a dream" speech, and discusses segregation and the civil rights movement before and after the event.

Look at that giant statue! What did this person do to earn his own monument in Washington, DC? Join Mr. Williams's class on a field trip to the Lincoln Memorial to find out. Ranger May gives the students a tour, tells them about the Civil War, and talks a Full-Color Illustrations, Further Reading, Glossary, Index, Original Artwork, Table of Contents, Websites.