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Home: Destinations: North America: United States: Washington, DC: Society and Culture: History: 20th Century

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City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C. Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city's monumental core. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Duke Ellington's Washington The black community in Ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   McMillan Commission Plan for Washington in 1902 The Senate Parks Commission, chaired by Sen. James McMillan, developed a plan for the Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. The site has extensive excerpts from the commission report. http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Vietnam Veterans Memorial: District of Columbia A list of local residents killed in the Vietnam War. http://grunt.space.swri.edu/statewall/washdc/dc.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Washington As It Was Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s, including views of commercial, residential, and government buildings, street scenes and neighborhoods. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Washington Post: Snapshots of a Washington Century Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details   Washington Post: Washington Century Series of 26 articles looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the "government girls" of World War II to suburban development. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm - Rate It | Review It | Travel details

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