Washington Seen by Fredric M Miller
In the accompanying text, Miller and Gillette invite readers to enter into an intimate conversation with the past,offering insightful commentary on the images of people whose faces cannot fail to captivate.
This long overdue volume takes a nuanced look at familiar photographs and also serves to circulate widely for the first time many others, depicting all classes and strata of societyWashington History Miller and Gillette selected more than 350 black and white photographs that reveal something of the lives of the people who inhabited the nation's capital between the Guilded Age and the Great Society. American History
Fredric M. Miller is former director of Temple University's Urban Archives Center and co-author of Still Philadelphia and Philadelphia Stories. Since 1989 he has been a program officer with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Howard Gillette Jr. is professor of American Civilization and History at George Washington University, where he was founder and first director of the Center for Washington Area Studies. He has been editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and a frequent contributor to books and journals on American urban and political history.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801849794 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801849799 |
| Title | Washington Seen |
| Author | Fredric M Miller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1996-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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