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“In the Greatest Solemn Dignity”: The Capital’s Four Cornerstones
“To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington”: The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument
52 Perfect Day Trips for Fit Adults in the Greater Washington Area
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Washington, D.C.: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia
A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
A Botanic Garden for the Nation: The United States Botanic Garden
A Garden for All Seasons: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood
A History of the National Capital: From Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act (Volume 1)
A History of the National Capital: From Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act (Volume 2)
A Memoir of the Life of Edward Stabler, Late of Alexandria in the District of Columbia; With a Collection of His Letters
A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum
A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover
Abigail Adams: A Life
Abigail Adams: Letters
Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage
Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904
African and European Addresses
African Game Trails
Alexandria (Images of America)
AMC’s Best Day Hikes Near Washington, D.C.: Four-season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails in Maryland, Virginia, and the Nation’s Capital
America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress
America’s Library: The Story of the Library of Congress
America’s National Gallery of Art
America’s Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert Stuart
America’s Presidents: National Portrait Gallery
American Big-Game Hunting
American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence
American Problems
And Tyler Too: A Biography Of John And Julia Gardiner Tyler
Assateague Island
Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters of John Trumbull, From 1756 to 1841
Best Hikes with Kids: Washington DC, The Beltway & Beyond
Bonsai and Penjing: Ambassadors of Peace & Beauty
Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Building the Octagon
Building Washington: Engineering and Construction of the New Federal City, 1790-1840
Buildings of the District of Columbia
Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Capital Engineers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Development of Washington, D.C., 1790-2004
City on the Sand: Ocean City, Maryland, and the People Who Built It
Climbers’ Guide to the Great Falls of the Potomac
Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol
Creating Capitol Hill: Place, Proprietors, and People
Creating the Federal City, 1774-1800: Potomac Fever
Crete and James: Personal Letters of Lucretia and James Garfield
Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor
Daniel H. Burnham: Architect, Planner of Cities, Volume 1
Daniel H. Burnham: Architect, Planner of Cities, Volume 2
Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner
Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Diaries: Diary and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams, Volumes 1 and 2: 1778–1849 (Adams Papers)
Dining with the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon
East and West Potomac Park: A History
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
Edmund Morris’s Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Bundle: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt
Edward Durell Stone, Recent and Future Architecture
Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect
Edward Durell Stone: Modernism’s Populist Architect
Eighty-Eight Years with Sarah Polk
Emily Donelson Of Tennessee
Fabergé Rediscovered
First Family: Abigail and John Adams
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy
Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America’s Most Scandalous President
Ford’s Theatre (Images of America)
Founding Gardeners
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady
French Furniture from the Collection of Hillwood Museum & Gardens
George Segal in Black and White: Photographs by Donald Lokuta
George Washington: Writings
George Washington’s Diaries: An Abridgment
Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West
Gouverneur Morris
Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography
Grace Coolidge: The People’s Lady in Silent Cal’s White House
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Great Falls and Mather Gorge
Handbook of the New Library of Congress
Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady
Hero Tales From American History
Hiking Virginia: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Hiking Adventures
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Historic Congressional Cemetery
Historical Tours Alexandria, Virginia: Walk the Path of America’s Founding Fathers
History of the Congressional Cemetery: December 6, 1906
History of the Library of Congress: Volume I, 1800-1864
History of the United States Botanic Garden, 1816-1991
History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics
Homes of the First Ladies: A Guide to Publicly Accessible Homes, Museums, and Related Sites
Hunting in Many Lands
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Images of Rail: Union Station in Washington DC
In Memoriam: Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
In the Shadow of the United States Capitol: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation
James and Dolley Madison: America’s First Power Couple
James Hoban: Designer and Builder of the White House
Jane Means Appleton Pierce: U.S. First Lady (1853-1857): Her Family, Life and Times
Jefferson and Education
Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect
Jefferson and Science
Jefferson Memorial (American Icons)
Jefferson Memorial: A Monument to Greatness
Jefferson Memorial: Interpretive Guide to Thomas Jefferson Memorial, District of Columbia
Jefferson’s Books
Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress
Jefferson’s West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life
John Russell Pope
John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Lafayette Square
Latrobe’s View of America, 1795-1820: Selections from the Watercolors and Sketch
Lincoln Memorial Commission Report
Lincoln Memorial: A Guide to the Lincoln Memorial, District of Columbia
Lincoln Memorial: The Story and Design of an American Monument
Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home
Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post
Lorado Taft Sculptor and Citizen
Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady
Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield: 1832-1918 (Encyclopedia of First Ladies)
Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Life Behind the Luxury
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times
Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress
Martha Jefferson: An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson
Martha Washington: An American Life
Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats
Memoirs And Letters Of Dolly Madison, Wife Of James Madison, President Of The United States
Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk
Meridian Hill Park (Images of America)
Meridian Hill: A History
Misty of Chincoteague
Montpelier Hospitality: History, Traditions and Recipes From the Home of James and Dolley Madison
Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Natural Wonders of Assateague Island
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era
New York
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
Notes on the State of Virginia
Ocean City: Volume 1
Ocean City: Volume 2
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters’ Eyes
Oliver Cromwell
On These Walls: Inscriptions & Quotations in the Library of Congress
Our Potomac, from Great Falls Through Washington, D.C.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
Outlook Editorials
Palladio: The Complete Buildings
Patriotism, Perseverance, Posterity: The Story of the National Japanese American Memorial
Pictorial History of the University of Virginia
Plan of Chicago
Portrait of a Nation, Second Edition: Men and Women Who Have Shaped America
Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene, 1816-1889
Provisions & Politics: Recipes Honoring First Lady Sarah Childress Polk
Rachel Donelson Jackson: The Life of the First Lady Who Never Was
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
Robert Mills: America’s First Architect
Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation
Russian Icons at Hillwood
Sarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady
Sevres Porcelain at Hillwood
Shaping A President: Sculpting for the Roosevelt Memorial
Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Spectacular: Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection
St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square: The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, DC
Strength And Honor: The Life Of Dolley Madison Paperback
Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Supplement to Max Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Volume 5)
Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
The Bride of the White House: The Wedding of Grover Cleveland & Frances Folsom
The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
The Constitution of the United States
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison
The Culinary Lives of John & Abigail Adams: A Cookbook
The Deer Family
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 1: 1748-1765
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 2: 1766-1770
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 3: 1771-1775, 1780-1781
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 4: 1784-June 1786
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 5: July 1786-December 1789
The Diaries of George Washington, Volume 6: January 1790-December 1799
The Dome of the United States Capitol: An Architectural History
The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
The Evolution of an Architect
The Federalist Papers
The First Forty Years of Washington Society
The Flying Cat and Other Amazing Stories of the Washington Monument
The Four Books of Architecture
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
The General & Mrs. Washington: The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution
The General’s Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
The History of Madison Place – Lafayette Square, Washington DC
The Intimate Letters Of John Cleves Symmes And His Family
The Irwins and the Harrisons
The Jefferson Memorial Through Time
The Jefferson Memorial: The History of Washington D.C.’s Famous Monument
The Journal of Latrobe: Being the Notes and Sketches of an Architect, Naturalist and Traveler in the United States From 1796 to 1820
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building
The Lincoln Memorial and American Life
The Lincoln Memorial: Myths, Legends, and Facts (Monumental History)
The Lincoln Memorial: The History and Legacy of Washington D.C.’s Famous Monument
The Mayflower: Washington’s Second Best Address
The Nation’s Library: The Library of Congress
The Nation’s Stage: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1971-2011
The National Archives Building: Temple of American History
The National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
The Naval War of 1812
The New Nationalism
The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson
The Patowmack Canal: From Canal to Constitution
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson
The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West
The Potomac River: A History & Guide
The President Takes a Wife
The President’s House
The President’s Lady: A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson
The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s Life of Dolley Madison
The REACH: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Rebel and the Rose: James a Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Volume 1)
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Volume 2)
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Volume 3)
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Volume 4)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
The Rough Riders
The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
The Stephen Decatur House: A History
The Stone of Hope: Martin Luther King Memorial and Master Sculptor Lei Yixin
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
The Supreme Court of the United States
The U.S. Constitution And Fascinating Facts About It
The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument: A 4D Book
The Washington Monument: The History of the World’s Tallest Obelisk
The Washingtons: George and Martha, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love”
The White House, the Capitol and the Supreme Court: Historic Self-Guided Tours
The White House: An Historic Guide
The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square
The Wilderness Hunter
The Willard Hotel: An Illustrated History
The Winning of the West, Volume I: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
The Winning of the West, Volume II: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
The Winning of the West, Volume III: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
The Winning of the West, Volume IV: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Jefferson: Architect: The Built Legacy of Our Third President
Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book
Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order
Trail and Camp-Fire
Treasures of the Library of Congress
Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest & Murder at the White House
True Americanism: Four Essays
Tudor Place: America’s Story Lives Here
Tylers and Gardiners on the Village Green: Williamsburg, Virginia, and East Hampton, Long Island
Union Station: A History of Washington’s Grand Terminal
United States Capitol: A Brief Architectural History
Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation’s Capital
Washington’s Monument: And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk
We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol
World’s Columbian Exposition: The Book of the Builders
Worthy of the Nation: Washington, DC, from L’Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission