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Title:

Establishing Congress : the removal to Washington, D.C., and the election of 1800 / edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon.

Publisher:

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Congress--History.
Presidents--United States--Election--1800.
Political culture--Washington (D.C.)--History.
Federal government--United States--History.
United States--Politics and government--1797-1801.
United States--Politics and government--1789-1815.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
Washington (D.C.)--Politics and government--To 1878
Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Bowling, Kenneth R.
Kennon, Donald R., 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Fighting for control of the American dream : Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and the election of 1800 / John H. Aldrich -- The election of 1800 : the consequences of the first change in party control / William C. diGiacomantonio -- "To make hay while the sun shines" : D.C. governance as an episode in the Revolution of 1800 / Elaine C. Everly and Howard H. Wehmann -- "Then let us to the woods repair" : moving the federal government and its records to Washington in 1800 / C. M. Harris -- Jefferson, the concept of the modern capitol, and Republican nation-building / Catherine Allgor -- Federal patronage in the early republic : the role of women in Washington, D.C. / Cynthia D. Earman -- Messing around : entertaining and accommodating Congress, 1800/1830 / Rubil Morales-Vázquez -- Redeeming a sacred pledge : the plans to bury George Washington in the Nation's Capital / Kenneth R. Bowling.

Series:

Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1789-1801

ISBN:

9780821416198 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0821416197 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60189625

LCCN:

2005011410

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)