Matthew Gilmore has authored a number of books: Historic Photos of Washington, D.C. (with Andrew Brodie Smith), Historic Photos of Arlington County and Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the founding editor of H-DC, the Washington, D.C. history discussion list and website (http://www.h-net.org/~dclist) and has published in, guest co-edited for and serves on the editorial board of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.