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Spring/Summer 2000 | Volume 12, Number 1
Special Double Issue Commemorating
The BiCentennial of the Federal Government's Arrival
Kenneth R. Bowling, Guest Editor
A Foreboding Shadow
Newspaper Celebration of the Federal Government's Arrival
BY KENNETH R. BOWLING
The Local Impact of the War Office Fire
BY ELAINE C. EVERLY
Imagining Washington
Monuments and Nation Building in the Early Capital
BY RUBIL MORALES-VAZQUEZ
"To Sell Their Birthright for a Mess of Potage"
The Origins of D.C. Governance and the Organic Act of 1801
BY WILLIAM C. DIGIACOMANTONIO
Washington's "Federal City,"
Jefferson's "federal. town"
BY C. M. HARRIS
"Queen Dolley" Saves Washington City
BY CATHERINE ALLGOR
Moving to the Seat of Government
"Temporary Inconveniences and Privations"
BY PAMELA SCOTT
The City of Washington 1800
A New Map
BY DON A. HAWKINS
Chronicle of a British Diplomat
The First Year in the "Washington Wilderness"
BY MARILYN K. PARR
Making the Most of an Opportunity
Slaves and the Catholic Church in Early Washington City, 1800-1814
BY CYNTHIA D. EARMAN
A Census of Early Boardinghouses
BY CYNTHIA D. EARMAN
William Prout
Capitol Hill's Community Builder
BY RUTH ANN OVERBECK and LUCINDA P. JANKE
