Many of these titles are available at the D.C. Public Library.
City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Washington, District of Columbia 2nd ed.
Melder, Keith E. (ed.)
Washington : A History of the Capital, 1800-1950
Green, Constance M.
City of Washington: An Illustrated History
Junior League of Washington.
A to Z of Washington, D.C. (revised paperback edition of the Historical Dictionary of Washington, D.C)
Benedetto, Robert et al.
Records — Columbia Historical Society (Now known as the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.)
Papers read before the Society 1895-1989 Full text in the database JStor.
Washington History: Magazine of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
(formerly Records of the Columbia Historical Society) Full text in the database JStor.
Anacostia Story, 1608-1930
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel
Black Georgetown Remembered 1751-1990
Lesko, Kathleen (ed.)
Gentrification in Adams Morgan
Henig, Jeffrey
Tenleytown: Country Village into City Neighborhood 2nd edtion
Helm, Judith Beck
Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods
2010 edition
1988 edition
Smith, Kathryn S. Smith (ed.)
Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital : the Conflict of Federal and Local Interests
Harris, Charles Wesley
Home Rule or House Rule?
Hope and Delusion : Struggle for Democracy in the District of Columbia Richards, Mark David
Left with Few Rights: Unequal Democracy and the District of Columbia
Zigas, Eli
National Representation for the District of Columbia (discusses Retrocession to Maryland)
Best, Judith
Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy
(electronic book) Walters, Ronald and Toni-Michelle C. Travis, editors
Perspectives of political power in the District of Columbia : the views and opinions of 110 members of the local political elite / Harris, Charles W.
Period Histories
Creation of Washington, D.C.
Bowling, Kenneth
Burning of Washington (War of 1812)
Pitch, Anthony
Southern City, National Ambition: The Growth of Early Washington, D.C., 1800-1860
Gillette, Howard
Reveille in Washington (Social history of Civil War Washington)
Leech, Margaret
Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C. After the Civil War
Jacob, Kathryn Allamong
Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968
Gilbert, Ben W.
Architecture, Art & Monuments
American Monument and Its Audience
Waterman, Roderick Clive
Best Addresses: A Century of Washington’s Distinguished Apartment Houses
Goode, James M.
Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings, 2nd edition
Goode, James M.
George Washington : Man and Monument
Frank Freidel and Lonnelle Aikman.
Massachusetts Avenue Architecture
Commission of Fine Arts. Kohler, Sue A.
Sixteenth Street Architecture
Commission of Fine Arts. Kohler, Sue A.
Washington Sculpture (2nd edition, 2008)
Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. (1st edition, 1974)
Goode, James M.
White House: An illustrated architectural history
Phillips-Schrock, Patrick ; foreword by James Archer Abbott.
Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.
Gillette, Howard
Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C.
Farrar, Margaret E.
Worthy of the Nation: History of Planning for the National Capital 2nd edition
U.S.National Capital Planning Commission
D&B Regional Business Directory
Ready Ref HG 4058 .W3 D86
United States Government Manual
Ready Ref JK 421 .A3
Washington Information Directory
Ready Ref F 192.5 .W34
Multicultural Washington
Washington Odyssey: A Multicultural History of the Nation's Capital. Rev. Edition
1996 editon entitled Urban Odyssey
Jews of Washington, D.C.
Altshuler, David
Guide to Black Washington: Places and Events of Historical and Cultural Significance in the Nation's Capital
Fitzpatrick, Sandra
Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790- 1864
Brown, Letitia Woods
First Freed: Washington, D.C. in the Emancipation Era
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth (ed.)
Neglected Neighbors:Stories of life in the alleys, tenements and shanties of the National Capital (1909)
Charles F. Weller
Colored Woman in a White World
Terrell, Mary Church
Alley Life in Washington, 1850-1970
Borchert, James
Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920
Moore, Jacqueline
Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition
Barber, Lucy G.
Farther Along: A Civil Rights Memoir
Caplan, Marvin Harold
Selected Authors of D.C. Fiction
Adams, Henry. Democracy
Clarke, Breena. River, Cross My Heart
Golden, Marita. Edge of Heaven & others
Johnson, Haynes. The Landing.
Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Jones, Edward P. Lost in the City
Pelecanos, George P. Night Gardener & others
DC Noir & DC Noir 2 stories edited by George P. Pelecanos
Shreve, Susan Richards. Train Home & others
Tate, Allen. The Fathers
Twain, Mark. Gilded Age
Alley Life in Washington by 
Brookland by 
Mount Pleasant by 
Southwest Washington, D. C. by 
Greater U Street by 
Gay and Lesbian Washington D. C. by 
Washington, D.C.'s Protests by 
The Black History of the White House by 
Washington, D. C. by 
Washington, D. C. by 
Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University by 
The Black Washingtonians by 
Chocolate City by 
Chocolate Cities by 
First Class by 
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington by