If you join or renew your membership with the DC History Center by October 7, you will receive a special issue of Washington History delivered to your home in early November. This issue is unlike any we have published before.
Back in March we were working full speed ahead on the next issue of Washington History. Then everything changed. With the pandemic shutting nearly everything down, and then the horrifying murder of George Floyd leading to streets filled with angry protesters nationwide, we realized that the end of business as usual required, well, an end to business as usual.
We postponed the planned issue and put out a call to historians of DC for their perspectives on this historic moment. The results—in a format new to Washington History—are 28 short essays in which researchers revisit their work to understand its relevance to the current situation.
The contributors range from veteran historians who have shaped the field of DC history as we know it today, to a group of rising scholars who offer new perspectives on the DC story. Even more than usual, this is a Washington History meant to inform, challenge, and engage. This will be an issue to keep well beyond 2020.
Inside the Issue
Fall 2020 | Volume 32, Numbers 1-2
| Essays from: Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove Paula C. Austin Kenneth R. Bowling Mara Cherkasky Bell Julian Clement Mary Beth Corrigan Matthew R. Costello John DeFerrari Howard Gillette, Jr. Derek Gray Amanda Huron Jennifer D. Keene Christopher Klemek David F. Krugler Thomas E. Luebke Kate Masur E. Ethelbert Miller Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy Joshua M. Myers Lauren Pearlman Lawrence Roberts Patrick Scallen Sarah Jane Shoenfeld Kyla Sommers Brandi Thompson Summers William G. Thomas III Rachel Watkins Eric S. Yellin |
