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A list of local residents killed in the Vietnam War.
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/statewall/washdc/dc.htm
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Washington City Paper: Lost Riot
Recounts the deadly racial riots of July 1919.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/1998/cover0403.html
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WAMU: Metro Connection: 20th Century Washington
Radio series covers the McMillan Plan, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, race relations in the
1920s, the 1932 Bonus March, World War II, the desegregation of Thompson's Restaurant in the 1950s,
1960s freeway battles, the fight for self-government in the 1970s, the Marion Barry years, and
late-century demographic trends. Originally broadcast on the WAMU radio program Metro Connection.
http://www.wamu.org/mc/century.html
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Washington As It Was
Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be
viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s,
including views of commercial, residential, and government buildings, street scenes and
neighborhoods.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html
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Washington Post: Snapshots of a Washington Century
Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm
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Washington Post: Washington Century
Series of 26 articles looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the
"government girls" of World War II to suburban development.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm
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McMillan Commission Plan for Washington in 1902
The Senate Parks Commission, chaired by Sen. James McMillan, developed a plan for the Mall and
central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. The site has extensive
excerpts from the commission report.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm
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Duke Ellington's Washington
The black community in Ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up.
Companion site to PBS documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc
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City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C.
Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city's monumental core.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html
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