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Caution: Please Drivel CarefullyCaution: Please Drivel Carefully (book)

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Aphorisms and poems by Allen Herzog

A House on the Hill: The History of 219 11th St SEA House on the Hill: The History of 219 11th St SE (book)

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An average house on an average block of Washington DC reveals its history, and with it, the history of the capital of the United States. Statesmen and clerks, inventors and activists have all lived or owned the house and the land it sits on. This book traces the ownership of the land from the beginnings of the United States to the present, as well as explaining the design and building of the house itself, plus the stories of those that owned and rented it.

Jacobsen/Immelmann DocumentsJacobsen/Immelmann Documents (book)

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Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of ColumbiaAbraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia (book)

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Slavery—furiously debated, yet recognized in the Constitution—was a stain on the nation’s consciousness since the founding of the Republic. As the country grew, legal battles erupted over the fate of fugitive slaves and the rights of slave-owners to take their property into free states. Nowhere was the issue more sharply drawn than in the nation’s capital, where government leaders saw first hand the shame and disgrace of legal slavery and the inherent moral conflict with guarantees in the Declaration of Independence. Decades of agitation for change came to fruition on April 16, 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that ended slavery in the District of Columbia—nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which liberated slaves only in the Confederacy, and a full three years before ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake BayThe Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay (book)

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Eastern Branch Press is pleased to announce the new paperback edition of John R. Wennersten's The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay.

In the decades following the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster, one of the most valuable commodi­ties on the Atlantic coast. In this book, noted historian and author John Wennersten tells the stories of wa­termen, law enforcement officers, government officials, Bay scientists, immi­grants, and oyster shuckers involved in the oyster trade.

The History of 219 11th St SEThe History of 219 11th St SE (book)

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A history of the house at 219 11th St SE on Capitol Hill, Washington DC