Who? What? When? and Why? are the questions one wants to ask about Washington DC during the time of the War of 1812. It was the new national capital striving to find its rationale in its few public buildings. It was a Seat of Government where a weak executive failed to control a fractious legislature even while fighting at its distant borders a war against the world's Great Power. It then became itself a Seat of War. After its destruction and a peace snatched out of the depths of defeat, there was a renewal of national feeling. The more emphatic restatement of the city's significance and...
Who? What? When? and Why? are the questions one wants to ask about Washington DC during the time of the War of 1812. It was the new national capital s...
Who? Where? When? and Why? These are the questions to be answered when exploring Washington DC as it was affected by the Civil War during its time and since; and how the city in turn affected the war and the history of Reconstruction. The book is divided into three major sections. The first is the political life of the wartime "Seat of Government." All three branches evolved as a result of the trial by fire. The war, fought in the halls of Congress as well as the battlefield, continued long past Appomattox into Reconstruction. The second aspect was its role on the front-line as the actual...
Who? Where? When? and Why? These are the questions to be answered when exploring Washington DC as it was affected by the Civil War during its time and...
