washington (d.c.)

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.

"This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, D.C., in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered - but never accepted - the master-servant relationship, and recount the strategies they used to change their status from "live in" servants to daily paid workers who "lived out"--P. [4] of cover.

"M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical therapy and the world leader in prosthetic rehabilitation for injured war veterans"--.

Explores the myths, facts, and legends associated with the Washington Monument.