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    Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America’s Great Poet

    Garrett Peck

    Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union…

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    The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath

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    A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath-the Red Scare, race riots, women’s suffrage, and Prohibition.

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    The Potomac River: A History & Guide

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    The great Potomac River begins in the Alleghenies and flows 383 miles through some of America’s most historic lands before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. The course of the river…

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    A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium

    Garrett Peck

    An eye-opening history evoking the disruptive first decade of the twenty-first century in America.

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    The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath

    Garrett Peck

    A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath.

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    The Potomac River: A History and Guide

    Garrett Peck

    The great Potomac River begins in the Alleghenies and flows 383 miles through some of America’s most historic lands before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. The course of the river…

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    Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’T

    Garrett Peck

    In 1929, it was estimated that every week bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits into Washington, D.C.‘s three thousand speakeasies. H.L. Mencken called it the…

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    Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade

    Garrett Peck,Joe Coker,Thomas R. Pegram

    Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the prohibition period was like. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays…

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