Formula per MetaStock reg Gröna Byte Telematica Finanziaria har gett mig en stor uppgift om att få en betydande intressen, med hjälp av MetaStock-registret, som offentliggjordes av Sergio Paolino, som är en ekonomisk och ekonomisk aktör för BorsaampFinanza-kopia. Det här är ett trovärdigt sätt att skapa en tabell med hjälp av en formel, en metod för MetaStock-registret med formel för importen (Indikatorbyggare). Exploer reg. Expert Advisor Reg. Enhanced System Tester reg.), Lrsquoautore della formula ed il numero di BorsaampFinanza copy duve la formel viene riportata e spiegata nel dettaglio. Sul settimanale lrsquoIngegner Paolino delendo dalla formula originaria, ne illustra pregi e difetti ed eventuali modifyhe dela alla stessa per migliorarne la performance. Ricordiamo inoltre che egrave possibile acquistare prioriterar kopior av BorsaampFinanza copy direttamente on line. Ogni formel verragrave copiata i una cartella (den här typen av formel) är en sammanfattning av C: FORMULE-METASTOCK. Attenzione. Le formula vengono fornite kommer att spåra spionti di riflessione e di esercizio accademico. Pertanto le formule proposte sono realizzate esclusivamente en scopo didattico e kommer incentivo allo sviluppo di nuove. Förklaringen är att jag har en karaktär som är en följd av beslutsfattande operativ basa, vilket är en förutsättning för en självständig autonomi och en proprio rischio. Avviso sullrsquouso e sulla proprietagrave deve dati. La prima operazione da effettuare consiste nello scaricare il filen autodecomprimente contenente la formula scelta, med följande ordalag: 1. Scegliere la formula de si scaricare riportata nella tabella sottostante, quindi una volta individuella la formula cliccare sul relativo Ladda ner posizionato a destra per iniziare Det går inte att ta del av en PC-dator. Verktygsduva viene importato (1) Attenzione: nella casella ldquo Autore rdquo egrave riportato lrsquoautore della formula pubblicata, nel caso in cui in questa casella fosse riportato anche ldquo Ing. Sergio Paolino rdquo, allora significherebbe che la formel contiene oltre a quella originale anche quella modificata dallIngegner Paolino. 2. Appariragrave quindi en video la seguente finestra: 3. Klicka här för att skicka in en SMS-fil. Du kommer att få mer information om den här datorn, oavsett om du vill ha den här filen. 4. Al termine dello scarico da internet del filen contenente la formula per MetaStock reg. inizieragrave la decompressione del file sul PC. 5. Cliccare quindi sul Tasto ldquo OK, så här är du redo att lägga till en del av filen: 6. Cliccare quindi sul tasto ldquo Unzip rdquo (senza modificare nessun parametro) della successiva finestra: 7. Terminata la decompressione del file, cliccare sul tasto ldquo OK rdquo della successiva finestra: En questo punkto la formel egrave stata copiata nella cartella C: FORMULE-METASTOCKNNN uttalar sig om importen av MetaStock reg (Dvs NNN egrave il numero della formula). Ad esempio nel caso i cui volessimo importen av den primära formeln della tabella ldquo Psykologiska indexet rdquo questa verragrave copiata nella cartella C: FORMULE-METASTOCK643. mentre la seconda formel ldquo BMS Brownian Modellstrategi rdquo verragrave copiata nella cartella C: FORMULE-METASTOCK646 e cos via. Per importare la formel i MetaStock reg effetuare le seguenti operazioni: 2. Skriv ut och lägg till Verktyg dela MetaStock reg. (ad esempio l Indikator Builder kopia) e cliccare sul pulsante ldquo Organizerhellip rdquo. 3. Selezionare quindi la voce ldquo Importera formelfilerna rdquo e cliccare sul pulsante ldquo Avantigt rdquo. En questo punkto dobbiamo inserire nella riga ldquo Mappa: rdquo il percorso esatto della formula da importare. Quindi cliccando sul pulsante ldquo Bläddra bland de bästa och mest eftertraktade formulären, och se till att du kan hitta den här boken. C: FORMULE-METASTOCKNNN (du vet inte NNN, men du kan även skriva ut en formel). Cliccare infine sul pulsante ldquo Fin rdquo per importare la nostra formel i MetaStock reg. en uppgift för att hantera verktyget för MetaStock-registret (che nel nostro caso saragrave lrsquoIndicator Builder reg), troveremo la formula appena importata. Integrationsplattform som en tjänst: Nästa generation av ESB, Del 1 Ekonomiska utmaningar fortsätter att driva organisationer för att minska kostnaderna och förbättra servicekvaliteten för företagsintegrationstjänster, samtidigt som hanteringen av risker som serviceavtal, hög tillgänglighet, säkerhet och efterlevnad av reglerna hanteras mer effektivt. Denna kritiska efterfrågan uppmanar företagsledare och IT-chefer att ompröva hur de ska tillhandahålla företagsintegrationstjänster och avgöra om dessa tjänster kommer att levereras på premiss eller från en extern molntjänstleverantör. Det traditionella tillvägagångssättet för en ny företagsservicebuss (ESB) eller Business Process Management (BPM) - implementering har varit att anpassa en programvarustack som ska installeras i ett internt datacenter baserat på specifika integrationskrav. Detta kan vara tidskrävande och dyrt. Om kapaciteten ökar eller minskar på grund av fusion, förvärv, avyttring, förändringar i affärsmodeller eller säsongsfaktorer, kan insatserna för att upprätthålla integrationsplattformen bli ett viktigt företag för IT-organisationen. Dessa ansträngningar förbrukar värdefulla resurser och diverterar fokus bort från företagets kärnfunktioner 8212 och inspirerar till ett nytt tillvägagångssätt för företagsintegration med hjälp av en cloud-based Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS). En helhetssyn för implementering av en IPaaS-lösning med hjälp av cloud computing. Cloud computing möjliggör omvandlingar för integrationsplattformar som kan göra både företag och IT smalare, billigare, mer smidiga och mer kapabla. Men för att korrekt implementera en IPaaS-lösning finns det ytterligare överväganden som måste åtgärdas. Följande bild är ett exempel på en IPaaS-referensarkitektur: IPaaS-arkitekturmodellen Den här IPaaS-arkitektoniska modellen innehåller flera komponenter organiserade i tre huvudlager: Extern. För handelspartner, e-handel, saker av saker (IoT), mobila enheter, etc. (dvs system för engagemang) Integration. Inkluderar ESB, BPM, IBM174 WebSphere174 Cast Iron, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), IBM Sterling Commerce174 och Prediktiv dataanalys (dvs interaktionssystem) Intern affärsapplikation. Inkluderar produktlivscykelhantering, digital drift, kundrelationshantering, företagsresursplanering och datalager (dvs. system för rekord) IPaaS använder vanligtvis SoftLayer som sin molnbaserade lösning, men IPaaS-modellen är lika tillämplig för privat moln, offentlig moln, eller hybrid molnlösningar. Kostnaden för IPaaS-installationen och standardoperationen är härledd med en flexibel konsumtionsbaserad modell för att beräkna en månadsavgift. Det kommer att minska all onödig användning till en mycket slankare modell 8212 vilket betyder att du bara betalar för den faktiska användningen (betala när du går). Vi kommer att gå in mer detaljerat på kostnadsmodellen senare och utforska hur man uppnår sparandet med hjälp av en tjänstekatalog för att beräkna konsumtionen. ROI är en stor fördel med IPaaS-strategin. De initiala anskaffningskostnaderna för hårdvara och mjukvara skrivs av i IPaaS-konsumtionsmodellen, tillsammans med driftskostnaderna för plattform och applikationssupport. Ett IPaaS-tillvägagångssätt har vanligen en break-even-punkt så tidigt som 8-10 månader, med faktiska besparingar som uppstår inom ett år. IPaaS som en cloud-enabled lösning för end-to-end företagsintegrationskrav Överväg det IPaaS-arkitekturmodellsexempel som visas ovan. Företagets integrationsmöjligheter för detta exempel sträcker sig längre än ESB: s traditionella SOA-koncept. Här är integrationen av integrationsplattformen av IPaaS viktig. IPaaS gör att ytterligare funktioner utanför ESB kan inkluderas i integrationslösningen. Som en Service-aspekt av IPaaS innebär att dessa funktioner enkelt kan distribueras med hjälp av molnteknik. Dessa ytterligare IPaaS-funktioner är redan driftskompatibla med varandra, och de kan komma online snabbt, stegvis och kostnadseffektivt. I detta exempel på en IPaaS-arkitekturmodell arbetar flera integrationsdelar tillsammans för att utgöra IPaaS-tjänsterna. Huvudkomponenterna i det här exemplet är: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Affärsprocesshantering (BPM) Verksamhetsövervakning (BAM) Managed filöverföring (MFT) Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS och PaaS) En specifik IPaaS-implementering kan använda en olika mix av företagsintegrationskomponenter, beroende på vad de särskilda kraven är. Till exempel kan, förutom komponenterna som listas ovan, API Management, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) och realtidsaffärsanalys läggas till för att tillhandahålla ytterligare IPaaS-funktioner. För det här IPaaS-exemplet kan vi dra ner i alla huvudkomponenterna och deras företagsintegrationskapacitet. ESB är en mjukvaruarkitekturmodell som används för att utforma och genomföra kommunikation mellan ömsesidigt interaktiva applikationer i en serviceorienterad arkitektur (SOA). ESB hjälper till att göra kommunikationen mellan applikationer mer flexibel och flexibel. IBM Integration Bus Advanced är en robust och flexibel integrationsstiftelse baserad på ESB-teknik. Det ger anslutning och universell datatransformering i heterogena IT-miljöer. Det gör att företag av alla storlekar kan eliminera punkt-till-punkt-anslutningar och satsvis bearbetning, oberoende av plattform, protokoll och dataformat. Utnyttjar robusta möjligheter som tillgodoser olika integrationskrav för att möta behoven hos alla storlekar. Hjälper din hela organisation att göra smartare affärsbeslut genom att ge snabb åtkomst, synlighet och kontroll över data eftersom den strömmar genom dina affärsapplikationer och system. Ansluts genom en rad heterogena applikationer och webbtjänster, vilket eliminerar behovet av komplexa punkt-till-punkt-anslutningar. Ger omfattande stöd för Microsoft174-applikationer och - tjänster för att göra det mesta av din befintliga Microsoft-kompetens och programvaruinvestering. Levererar en standardiserad, förenklad och flexibel integrationsstiftelse för att hjälpa dig mer Integrerad Bus Advanced är utformad för att hantera detta behov genom att tillhandahålla en plattformsneutral ESB som är byggd för universell anslutning och transformation i heterogena IT-miljöer. Genom att göra det möjligt för dig att abstrahera dina data bort från protokoll - och transportspecifikationer kan du med hjälp av en ESB separera informationsdistribution från den faktiska affärslogiken som styr den distributionen. Denna förmåga gör i sin tur uppgifterna centralt tillgängliga inom ESB och erbjuder möjligheten att utveckla nya värdetilläggstjänster som kan använda din kritiska data. Integration Bus Advanced erbjuder följande möjligheter för hantering av mångfald: Stöd för olika dataformat Stöd för enkelriktad meddelanden samt begäran om svar, aggregering och publicering-prenumerera mönster Stöd för punkt-till-punkt-applikationer med hjälp av begäran-svar eller klient - server-modeller Stöd för långvariga och icke-ihållande meddelanden Stöd för globala transaktioner (ett meddelandeflöde fyller antingen allt eller inget) Innehållsbaserad routing Dessutom levererar Integration Bus Advanced en integrerad uppsättning av IBM WebSphere-adaptrar (PeopleSoft, SAP och Siebel ) baserat på Java8482 Connector Architecture (JCA). Dessa adaptrar levereras som inbyggda noder: Programadaptrar: SAP, Oracle EBS, JDE, Siebel, PeopleSoft Technology-adaptrar: JDBC, plattfiler, FTP, ECM, IBM i, IBM Domino174, e-post Du kan också skapa anpassade adaptrar. BPM har kallats ett holistiskt ledningsförfarande för att anpassa företagsprocesser med kundernas behov och behov. BPM använder ett systematiskt tillvägagångssätt för att kontinuerligt förbättra företagens effektivitet och effektivitet samtidigt som man strävar efter innovation, flexibilitet och integration med teknik. Det kan därför beskrivas som en processoptimeringsprocess. IBM Business Process Manager är en omfattande och användbar affärsprocesshanteringsplattform som erbjuder förbättrad synlighet och hantering av dina affärsprocesser. Den innehåller verktyg och körtid för processdesign, exekvering, övervakning och optimering. Det är speciellt utformat för att göra det enkelt för processägare och företagsanvändare att engagera sig direkt i förbättringen av sina affärsprocesser. Huvudkomponenterna är enligt följande: Process Center. Erbjuder centraliserad kontroll för styrning av implementering av process och tjänster till produktionstid. Detta skalbara förråd och kontrollcenter hjälper till att organisera och hantera alla processartefakter, applikationer och tjänster som skapats som en del av ett BPM-program och ger synlighet och kontroll över alla miljöer. Dess delade bibliotek med alla processtillgångar underlättar drag-och-släppåterbruk och samverkan och social implementering. Process Server. Tillåter en BPM-körtid som stöder ett komplett utbud av affärsprocesser, serviceorkestering och integration. Det utför processer konsekvent, tillförlitligt, säkert och med transaktionsintegritet. Den är utformad för att möjliggöra hög skalbarhet och tillgänglighet med utökat stöd för högvolymsprocessautomatisering och hög servicekvalitet. Den har också rika reparations - och återhämtningsegenskaper, som automatisk återförsök, manuell reparation, kompensation och lagring och vidarebefordran. I den avancerade utgåvan är det också värd för integrationsdesignflöden och har företagstjänstbussfunktionalitet. IBM Business Process Manager hjälper företag att dramatiskt förbättra verksamheten, bemyndiga företagsanvändare och ger dem direkt kontroll över organisationens processer och möjliggör repeterbar framgång med varje nytt process och BPM-program. Genom att använda IBM Business Process Manager kan kunderna förbättra sin förmåga att förändra, innovera och förbättra organisatoriska beslutsfattande oavsett branschanslutning. IBM Business Process Manager är en fullständig affärsprocessövervakningsnotationskompatibel, inklusive konstruktionerna för händelser. Webbbaserade formulär är inbyggda i en WYSIWYG-tränare. (Modellerade formulärdefinitioner representeras internt som XML). BAM refererar till aggregering, analys och presentation av realtidsinformation om aktiviteter inom organisationen och involverar kunder och partners. En affärsverksamhet kan antingen vara en affärsprocess som är orkesterad av BPM eller en affärsprocess som är en serie aktiviteter som spänner över flera system och applikationer. Key BAM-funktioner: Dashboard som innehåller nyckelindikatorer Siktbarhet i aktiviteter och prestanda Företagsevenemangskorrelation Möjlighet att ansluta till befintliga övervakningsmiljöer Sterling Connect: Direct174 ger säkerhetsrika, punkt-till-punkt-filöverföringar som kan eliminera beroende av opålitligt filöverföringsprotokoll ( FTP) överföringar. Den är optimaliserad för hög volym säker leverans av filer inom och mellan företag. Sterling Connect: Direct kan leverera dina filer med: Förutsägbar, säker filleverans via automatiserad schemaläggning, återstart av checkpoint och automatisk återhämtning. Säkerhetsrika överföringar som hjälper till att hålla kundinformationen privat och stödåtgärder för överensstämmelse. Hög prestanda som klarar av dina mest krävande arbetsbelastningar, från stora volymer av små filer till flera gigabyte filer Denna MFT-tjänst erbjuds av IBM Sterling som en konsumtionsbaserad tjänst i molnet. IPaaS erbjuder de nödvändiga funktionerna för att på ett säkert och tillförlitligt sätt ansluta till den här tjänsten. ESB-gateway IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud-integrationsprodukter gör det möjligt att integrera program för moln och applikationer på dagar, minska integrationskostnader och optimera resurser och produktivitet i Programvara som Service och Cloud-modeller. De tillhandahåller en grafisk konfiguration tillvägagångssätt 8212 snarare än anpassad kodning, on-demand verktyg eller traditionell middleware 8212 för att hjälpa dig att integrera applikationer snabbt och enkelt. De använder förkonfigurerade mallar baserat på gemensamma integrationsscenarier för att påskynda integrationen. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud-integrationsprodukter ger flera möjligheter för närliggande realtidsintegration: datasanering och migrering, datasynkronisering och anslutning, arbetsflöde och transformation som gör att du kan orkestrera integrationsprocesser över flera applikationer. Mash-up-funktioner gör att du kan integrera information från olika källor och visa den med hjälp av det inbyggda användargränssnittet för en molnapplikation. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud-integrationsprodukter stöder även mobila applikationer genom att utnyttja data och processer från andra delar av företaget. Cloud IaaS och PaaS IBMs IPaaS cloud-lösning kombinerar möjligheterna till fem grundläggande integrationskomponenter i SoftLayer 8212 ESB, BPM, BAM, MFT och ESB-gateway 8212, vilket ger enkelhet, synlighet, styrning och kraften i den mest omfattande IPaaS-plattformen utan att offra kapital och resursbudgetar. Genom denna tjänst kan ett företag omedelbart börja känna igen de fördelar som IBM IPaaS erbjuder med minimala kostnader och resursbehov. Dessutom hanterar expert IBM-resurser infrastrukturens skalbarhet och säkerhet. Slutsats Hittills har vi undersökt de tekniska och affärsfaktorer som har drivit framväxten av IPaaS, tillsammans med de möjligheter och komponenter som karakteriserar IPaaS-metoden för företagsintegration. I del 2. får du se de viktigaste egenskaperna hos IPaaS som skiljer den som en tjänst och lär dig varför dessa egenskaper gör en tjänsteprocedur för företagsintegration så värdefull. Nedladdningsbara resurserReserve nu för 6 mars Föreläsning: Buzzard Point ndash från indianer till fotboll Overbeck Capitol Hill History-föreläsningsserien fortsätter sitt 2016-17 år måndagen den 6 mars på Hill Center när lokalhistoriker Hayden Wetzel tittar på det ofta försummade kvarteret av Buzzard Point, SW, som ligger nära Capitol Hill och Navy Yard längs Anacostia River. Efter den indiska bostaden i området lockade Buzzard Point uppmärksamheten hos spekulanterna, stadsplanerarna, marknadsgardinerna, många små industriägare och ett litet bostadsområde. Wetzelrsquos PowerPoint Presentation kommer att fortsätta till den föreslagna fotbollsarenan och andra planer för området. Föreläsningen kommer att hållas på Hill Center på 921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE kl 7:30. Registrera på hillcenterdc. orghomeprograms2511 eller ring bara 202-549-4172. Vi föreslår att gästerna anländer minst 15 minuter före föreläsningen. Sittplatser börjar kl 19:00 för de som håller bokningar. Tillgängliga platser kommer att släppas till gäster på väntelistan, som börjar kl. 19.15. En professionell tour guide, Wetzel kommer att dela sin forskning av detta område intill Fort McNair. Han har också bidragit till rekordet av Washington genom att undersöka och skriva många landmärke nomineringar och studier av olika aspekter av DC livet. Overbeck-föreläsningarna sponsras av Capitol Hill Community Foundation. Kom ihåg CHCF i ditt välgörande ger. ALEXANDER SHEPHERD OCH MAKING AV MODERN WASHINGTON På måndagen den 7 november presenterade John P. Richardson sin nya biografi om Washingtonrsquos territorialguvernör (1873-74), Alexander Robey Shepherd och Making of Modern Washington. Bilderna som presenterades i kraftpunkten illustrerade grafiskt hur trafikbyggnaden och andra infrastrukturprojekt påverkades efter Washington-inbördeskriget, som hade lämnats i stort sett utan träd eller stenlagda gator efter konflikten. En bild visar c. 1800 Mansion Duddington (placerad nära 2: e och E-gatorna, SE) uppförde minst 25rsquo ovanför en nyskuren väg ndash ett exempel på en av konsekvenserna av häpnadsväckande kuperade gator. Trots att guvernören ibland hänvisades till ldquoBossrdquo Shepherd, hävdade Richardson att Shepherd varken var en ldquoBossrdquo i politisk mening av termen eller korrupt, trots att det fanns omkring 12 miljoner i kostnadsöverskridanden i slutet och mycket av Arbetet var skyfall på grund av brådska. Men Richardson krediterar Shepherd med att ha satt ldquoflesh på benen av LrsquoEnfantrsquos plansrdquo och med att hjälpa styrkongressen att acceptera sitt ansvar för underhåll av staden. Richardson blev intresserad av Shepherd när han bodde i DCrsquos Shepherd Park, bara en kort bit från platsen för Shepherdrsquos sommarhem, Bleak House. Han är en pensionär intelligens och en Mellanöstern expert. Overbeck-föreläsningarna sponsras av Capitol Hill Community Foundation. Kom ihåg CHCF i ditt välgörande ger. Meinke presenterar virtuell rundtur i Capitol Hills Rainbow History Den 19 september presenterade Mark Meinke en virtuell vandringstur på Capitol Hill-sidorna som var märkbar i 1960- och 1990-talen av LGBTQ (lesbisk, gay, bisexuell, transgender, queer). Under den tiden var Capitol Hill en av de kvot-toquot områdena för homosexuell och lesbisk aktivism och socialisera i Washington. I sin föreläsningsquotourquot beskrev Meinke barer och nattklubbar som erbjöd en vänlig atmosfär och i tid samma dans och dragspel samt andra lokala platser som Lammas Books, en bokhandel och inofficiellt communitycenter för stadens lesbiska samhälle Furies Collective, en 12-kvinnlig feministisk separatistiska kollektiva publicering av en inflytelserik tidning och Guild Press, utgivare av romaner, guider och fysikblad för den nationella homosexuella marknaden, som senare dök upp i en betydande högsta domstolsdom på obscenity lag. Quottourquot omfattade händelser och platser över Capitol Hill - från H Street korridoren, Pennsylvania Avenue SE, 8th Street SE (Barracks Row) och South Capitol-området nära M och O-gatorna (nuvarande Ball Park District). Efter powerpointpresentationen deltog publiken i en Q Amp A-session och bidrog med sina personliga historier och föreslog andra viktiga personer, webbplatser och evenemang som skulle kunna läggas till Capitol Hills Rainbow History. Meinke är medlem i National Park Services Scholars Roundtable för sitt LGBTQ Heritage Initiative. Han var också medstifter av både Rainbow History Project (en lokal historisk organisation som tillhandahåller ett webbaserat digitaliserat arkiv av primära dokument) och Rainbow Heritage Network (organiserat för erkännande och bevarande av nationella LGBTQ-webbplatser, historia och arv) . Han förberedde nomineringarna för Capitol Hill Furies Collective (219-11th Street SE) och för Bayard Rustins hem på 340 W. 28th Street i New York City som nyligen tillkom till National Register of Historic Places. Park Service Curators Beskriv Frederick Douglasss år i Washington På kvällen den 9 maj 2016 samlades en kapacitetsmassan i Lincoln Room på Hill Center för en illustrerad föreläsning om Frederick Douglasss år i Washington av National Park Service Museum kuratorer Bob Sonderman och Kamal McClarin . Deras presentation innehöll en visning av några av de stora avskaffande personliga ägodelarna, inklusive hans bibel och en oratorisk instruktionsbok som han krediterade med att lära honom hur man kommunicerar effektivt. Douglass, som flydde från slaveri i Maryland 1838 och blev en kraftfull röst för afroamerikansk frihet och medborgerliga rättigheter, tillbringade en betydande del av hans senare liv i District of Columbia, inklusive sju år i Capitol Hill-kvarteret och 18 år vid Cedar Hill i Anacostia. Sonderman är regional kurator för National Park Service National Capital Region med ansvar för långtidsvård och bevarande av museumsfastigheter för över fyrtio parker i Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia och District of Columbia. Han leder också National Park Service Museum Resource Center, en stor lagringsanläggning för museinsamlingar som ger stöd till parkerna i National Capital Region. McClarin är curator på Frederick Douglass National Historic Site här (Cedar Hill Property) och var redaktör för Frederick Douglass: En röst för frihet och rättvisa. Han tjänar också som curator-at-large för andra National Capital Parks East historiska platser, inklusive Mary McLeod Bethune Council House och Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site. Han tjänade sin Ph. D. i amerikanska offentliga historia och museumsstudier på Howard University i 2012 och har tjänstgjort National Park Service sedan 2007. Senathistoriker påminner Emily Edson Briggs av Maples Den 9 november 2015 presenterade den amerikanska senathistorikern emeritus Donald Ritchie en härlig Overbeck History lecture on Emily Edson Briggs liv och tider. En ledande Washington-värdinna i slutet av 1800-talet vann Briggs renown genom att skriva en färgstark, irreverent tidningskolumn under pennnamnet quotOlivia, där hon presenterade huvudstadspolitiska scenen som social underhållning. Under Lincoln-administrationen blev Briggs den första kvinnan som rapporterade direkt från Vita huset, och senare var hon bland de första som togs in i kongressens pressgalleri. Hon valdes till grundande president för Womens National Press Association 1882, och 1906 publicerades en samling av sina kolumner som The Olivia Letters. Ritchie noterade att under den senare delen av hennes liv bodde Briggs på The Maples, den stora gamla hemmet vid 630 South Carolina Avenue S. E. som så småningom blev Friendship House och, 2015, en multi-enhet bostadsutveckling. Huset byggdes 1796 för den rika markägaren William Duncanso n, och ägdes senare kort av Francis Scott Key. Förutom sin diskussion om Briggs, beskrev Ritchie situationen för andra artonhundratals kvinnors reportrar, som mötte stora hinder i deras ansträngningar att bryta sig in i Washington-journalistiken. Ritchie är författare till flera böcker, inklusive Reporting from Washington: En historia av Washington Press Corps och Press Gallery: Kongressen och Washington Correspondents. som innehåller ett kapitel om Briggs. Han gick till senatens historiska kontor 1976 och tjänstgjorde som amerikansk senathistoriker fram till sin pension under våren 2015. Han är en tidigare ordförande i Oral History Association och tjänstgjorde också på råd av American Historical Association och Society for History in den federala regeringen. Hans historiska kommentarer har hörts ofta på C-SPAN, NPR och andra nyheter. John Edward Hasse tar oss tillbaka till Duke Ellingtons Washington Washington hiltar stolt Duke Ellington som en inbyggd son, men vad handlade det om den här staden och dess U Street-kvarter i början av 1900-talet som producerade och inspirerade världens största jazzkomponist Den 21 september, 2015, fortsatte Overbeck History Project av en ny föreläsningssäsong i en ny plats - Hill Centers Lincoln Room - med en utforskning av Duke Ellingtons Washington. John Edward Hasse. curator av amerikansk musik på Smithsonians National Museum of American History, presenterade en illustrerad rundtur i salongerna, läskfontänerna och andra prestationsplatser där de unga Duke Ellingtons öronen var inställda på en ny typ av musik. Hasse är den prisbelönta författaren av Beyond Category: Duke Ellingtons liv och geni och redaktör för den illustrerade historien Jazz: Det första århundradet. Han ledde Smithsonians förvärv av 200 000-sidiga Duke Ellington-arkivet, inklusive nästan alla kompositörer oförlagd musik, tillsammans med otaliga andra papper, inspelningar och artefakter från jazzens tidiga dagar. Han var grundande verkställande direktör för Smithsonians Jazz Masterworks Orchestra och producent av många inspelningar, bland annat Grammy-nominerade tre-albumet The Classic Hoagy Carmichael. Denna föreläsning var den första händelsen för Overbeck-serien på Hill Center efter tretton år på Naval Lodge några kvarter upp på Pennsylvania Avenue. Det nya förhållandet strömlinjeformar reservationer och annan händelse logistik och ger även föreläsare lättare åtkomst från tunnelbanestationen Eastern Market. Kopior av Hasses Beyond Category. plus Jazz: Det första århundradet och Hoagy Carmichael-inspelningarna, var tillgängliga för försäljning och undertecknande i slutet av evenemanget. Voorheis ger bokpresent om Washington-arsenalens explosion Den 14 april 2015 levererade Erin Bergin Voorheis en rikt illustrerad Overbeck History-föreläsning baserad på hennes sena pappasbok om Washington-Arsenal-explosionen från 1864. Den lilla ihågda förvirringen som rockade staden på en svällande dag i juni dödade tjugofem kvinnor, de flesta av dem väldigt unga, när de samlade och packade ammunition för unionens krigsarbete i en krutbelastad byggnad vid dagens Fort McNair. Händelsen, noterade Voorheis, tjänar som en dramatisk påminnelse om ett nytt fenomen som följde med inbördeskrigets mobilisering - anställning av tusentals kvinnor i Washington och runt om i landet till personalkontor och krigsrelaterade tillverkningsanläggningar som män lämnade i drovar för militärtjänst. Hennes föreläsning erbjöd också ett intressant blick på Quott Island, citerar Washington-kvarteret (i huvudsak stadens sydvästra sydväst) där Arsenals låglönade arbetare bodde och kämpade för att överleva. Förheiss far, Brian Bergin, slutade skriva The Washington Arsenal Explosion 2009 men dog innan den kunde publiceras. Förheis gick in som redaktör och tog boken för att publiceras 2012. Författaren, en före detta fredskorps frivillig, Vietnam veteran, lärare och medarbetare av AFL-CIO, var en historiker genom avocation med ett särskilt intresse för inbördeskriget. Hans dotter är en professionell författare och redaktör som säger att hon ärvt sin kärlek till amerikansk historia från honom. Washingtonians bekant med kongresskyrkogården kan ha noterat ett stenmonument där som minns de kvinnor som dog i Arsenal-explosionen. Den betalades med donationer från offrets medarbetare och andra arbetande människor runt om i staden. Denna föreläsning var vår sista som hölls på Grand Old Naval Lodge Hall på 330 Pennsylvania Avenue S. E. I september 2015 flyttade serien till Hill Center på Old Naval Hospital, det vackert restaurerade konst-, kultur - och utbildningscentrumet på 921 Pennsylvania S. E. Carol Booker påminner om en Reporter quotAlone ovanpå Hillquot Den 24 februari 2015 gav författare och advokat Carol McCabe Booker en spännande Overbeck-föreläsning baserad på den nyutgivna självbiografin av Alice Dunnigan som överträffade både ras och könshinder som den första svarta kvinnan att bryta in i de nationella presskorps i Washington. Även om hon var väl mottagen när hon själv publicerade den 1974, är Dunnigans memoir (ursprungligen titeln A Black Womans Experience: från skolhuset till Vita huset) långt ute. Booker var övertygad om att det med sin redigering och ytterligare anteckning skulle vara en övertygande läsning för en allmän publik idag och University of Georgia Press enades om. Den nya, retitlade upplagan, Alone atop the Hill. följer Dunnigan från sin barndom som dotter till en sharecropper och tvättstuga i Kentucky till hennes ankomst i andra världskriget Washington, där hon arbetade först som en skrivare och så småningom som reportern. I slutändan skulle hon bli den första svarta kvinnliga journalisten ackrediterad till Vita huset och credentialed av House and Senate Press Galleries och den första att resa med en amerikansk president (Harry Truman). Hon var också den första reportern att fråga president Eisenhower om medborgerliga rättigheter och tillhandahöll täckning av praktiskt taget varje rasfråga före kongressen, federala domstolar och verkställande avdelning för mer än hundra svarta tidningar. Men långt mer än en recitation of firsts, noterade Booker, Dunnigans memoir ger en oinhiberad och oskyddad titt på terrängen, spelarna och politiken i en nationell huvudstad som kämpar för att ta sig fram genom en rasrevolution. Carol Booker är medförfattare med sin man, journalisten Simeon Booker, av den högt hyllade historien Shocking the Conscience: Ett Reporters Account of Civil Rights Movement. som fungerade som grund för deras utmärkta, gemensamt presenterade Overbeckföreläsning i april 2013. Hon har skrivit och redigerat för Voice of America. Frilansad för Washington Post, Readers Digest, Ebony, Jet. och svarta stjärnor. och rapporterade från Afrika, inklusive den nigerianska krigsfronten, för Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W). Aktivisten berättar varför DC har ingen omröstning i kongressen Den 17 november 2014 levererade lokalhistoriker och politisk aktivist Nelson Rimensnyder en överbehandlingsföreläsning som försökte förklara varför medborgare i Washington, DC fortfarande saknar rösträtt i kongressen. Hans konto varierade från receptet till ett separat federalt distrikt som anges i USA: s konstitution till misslyckande av ansträngningar på 1970-talet för att anta en konstitutionell ändring som skulle ha åtgärdat problemet. Rimensnyder är en lång tid student i DC historia och mästare av DC hemregeln. Under sin karriär på Library of Congress (1970-1975) och sedan som forskningschef för House Committee på District of Columbia (1975-1992) sammanställde han det som han beskriver som ett enda existerande omfattande arkiv om historien om komplexa DC-federala förhållandet. quot Han har varit intensivt involverad i lokala historiska bevarandeinsatser och har tjänstgjort i styrelserna i Washington DC, DC och föreningen för de äldsta invånarna i District of Columbia, förutom att de inte lyckades Likströmskontor. Historiker summerar US Marine Bands Första två århundraden Tisdagen den 16 september, US Marine Bands historiker, Gunnery Sergeant Kira Wharton. levererade en Overbeck History-föreläsning om bandets ursprung i slutet av 1700-talet och dess långa och färgglada historia i vårt grannskap. Känd som Quothe Presidents Own, citerar Marine Band är Americas äldsta kontinuerliga aktiva professionella musikaliska organisation och har utförts för varje amerikansk president sedan John Adams. Med sitt unika uppdrag att tillhandahålla musik till presidenten och marinkorpskommandot, har den vuxit från en handfull femers och trummare till en av premiärmusikorganisationerna i världen med över 150 musiker och supportpersonal. Dess erbjudanden omfattar inte bara bandmusik utan kammarmusik, jazz, pop - allt vad presidenten och allmänheten vill höra. En högkvalificerad musiker i sin egen rätt med doktorsexamen i musikalisk konster från University of Iowa, GySgt Wharton gick med i marinbandet som bibliotekarie 2003, med uppgift att förbereda musik för föreställningar från bandet och Marine Chamber Orchestra. She was appointed assistant chief in 2008 and historian in 2013. Her lecture included musical samplings from the bands storied past and generated a lively discussion with our audience. Information on the Marine Bands history can be found at: marineband. marines. milAboutOurHistory. aspx Author Tells How Shakespeare Library Came to Capitol Hill On April 8, 2014, Stephen H. Grant delivered an outstanding Overbeck History Lecture on the lives of Henry and Emily Folger, who amassed the worldrsquos greatest collection of Shakespeare treasures, including 82 First Folios, and built a library on Capitol Hill to house them. Based on his highly praised book Collecting Shakespeare . Grant described how the Folgers financed their collecting hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil of New York and how they secretly acquired prime real estate near the Library of Congress for a facility that would include a reading room, a public exhibition hall and an Elizabethan-style theater. A former Foreign Service officer, Grant has authored five books, including a biography of Peter Strickland, a New London, CT sea captain who became the first American consul in French West Africa. His book on the Folgers was preceded by his article in the June 2012 issue of Washington History . ldquoA Most Interesting and Attractive Problem: Creating Washingtonrsquos Folger Shakespeare Library. rdquo Grant earned a B. A. at Amherst College (from which Henry Folger graduated in 1879), an M. A. with the Middlebury College program in Paris, and an Ed. D. at the University of Massachusetts. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ivory Coast, he pursued a career with the U. S. Agency for International Development, with assignments in Ivory Coast and Guinea, Egypt, Indonesia, and El Salvador. He serves now as a Senior Fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington, VA. Walt Whitman Scholar Describes the Poets Years in Washington An enthusiastic crowd filled the Naval Lodge Hall on the evening of Tuesday, November 5, 2013, to hear Martin G. Murray discuss Walt Whitmans immersion in the life of his adopted city, Washington, DC, during the Civil War and the following decade. Whitman arrived in the nations capital in 1863 in search of his brother, who had been wounded in the war, and became a regular visitor at the makeshift hospitals that had sprung up all over the city to tend to the thousands of Union casualties. He stayed on to serve as a federal clerk and formed strong friendships with several of the citys leading figures, including the naturalist John Burroughs, while also writing some of his most notable poetry based on his experiences in the city. Martin Murray serves as an economist at the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is also an independent writer and researcher with deep expertise on the life of Whitman. He founded The Washington Friends of Walt Whitman. leads walking tours of the poets 19th century D. C. haunts, and has written and lectured widely on this giant of American literature for both academic and nonacademic audiences. He has been published in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, The Yale University Library Gazette, Washington History Magazine, The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia . and Blackwells Companion to Walt Whitman . as well as on The Classroom Electric and Walt Whitman Archive websites. Murray has discovered several pieces of Whitmans uncollected prose journalism, provided biographical information on soldiers appearing in Whitmans Memoranda During the War . and written a biography of the poets companion Peter Doyle. He also served on the coordinating committee for quotMelville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and Afterquot sponsored by the Melville Society and hosted by George Washington University. Local Historian Depicts a City Transformed by War On September 17, 2013, Lucinda Prout Janke kicked off a new season of the Overbeck History Lectures with an illustrated look at Washington, DC during the Civil War. A small, essentially Southern city when the conflicts first shots were fired in 1861, Washington underwent explosive growth and profound cultural change as tens of thousands of Union soldiers poured in to defend the vulnerable capital and dozens of makeshift hospitals sprang up to care for the wounded and dying. Jankes presentation was based on her new book, A Guide to Civil War Washington, D. C., published by The History Press. Now an independent historian, Janke has served as curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection and collections manager of the Historical Society of Washington, D. C. She has authored a number of books and articles on aspects of the citys history and delivered many lectures, including three previous Overbeck Lectures. The well-attended event was held at the Naval Lodge Hall at 330 Pennsylvania Ave. S. E. and concluded with an author book signing. Eyewitness to the Civil Rights Revolution Looks Back Seven Decades Award-winning journalist Simeon Booker . who wrote for leading U. S. news publications for more than seven decades, joined us on the evening of April 16, 2013, for a discussion of his coverage of the U. S. civil rights struggle from the mid-twentieth century onward. Bookers recently published Shocking the Conscience: A Reporters Account of the Civil Rights Movement recounts the days when quotthe man from Jetquot regularly put his life on the line as he ventured into the deep South to cover lunch counter sit-ins, the Selma to Montgomery march and other events that eventually forced open the regions schools, public accommodations and voting booths to people of all races. The book was written in collaboration with the authors wife, Carol McCabe Booker, an attorney and former journalist, who also joined in the April 16 discussion with lecture series coordinator John Franzeacuten. Born in Maryland in 1918 and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Simeon Booker contributed pieces to the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper while still in high school and landed a full-time reporting job there after graduating from Virginia Union University. He later wrote for the Cleveland Call and Post and was awarded a Nieman Fellowship for a year of study at Harvard University. In 1951 Booker became the first black staff reporter at The Washington Post, but after two years he left to serve as an associate editor at Jet and Ebony magazines. He became their Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent in 1955 and continued in those roles for 52 years, covering 10 presidents and virtually every major story of the modern civil rights movement. He is remembered especially for his courageous reporting on the 1955 killing of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi and the subsequent murder trial, a case that sparked outrage among African Americans and new demands for racial justice. The Bookers have lived on Capitol Hill since 1973. Shocking the Conscience is available at local book stores and at Amazon . Mike Canning Returns to ldquoHollywood on the Potomacrdquo A capacity crowd gathered at the Naval Lodge Hall on the evening of February 5, 2013, to welcome back Mike Canning and hear him share his encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood movies set in Washington. Canning delivered a superb Overbeck Lecture in 2007 on the amusing and often inaccurate ways that the movie industry has depicted our home town, and that presentation eventually evolved into a book: Hollywood on the Potomac: How the Movies View Washington, DC. Canningrsquos new lecture, based on the book, included images from films spanning more than half a century. Canning has written movie reviews for the Hill Rag since retiring from the Foreign Service in 1993, and maintains a website (mikesflix ) featuring film reviews and essays. He was a programmer and commentator for ten years for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshoprsquos classic films series and a long-time officer with the Capitol Hill Restoration Society and a Hill Center board member. He also served on the founding board of Capitol Hill Village. He and his wife Judy have lived on the Hill, on and off, since 1965. Hollywood on the Potomac is available for purchase at local shops and at Amazon. Tersh Boasberg Tells the DC Historic Preservation Success Story Our November 20, 2012, Overbeck History Lecture featured an illustrated talk by DC historic preservation champion Tersh Boasberg, based on his 11-year tenure as chairman of the Districtrsquos Historic Preservation Review Board. Looking at designation and design review in Washingtonrsquos historic districts, he presented case after case from the past decade where economic development was allowed to go forward while maintaining the visual integrity of historic structures. A noted author, professor of preservation law and protector of Civil War sites, Boasberg is a legend among local preservationists. He is the past president and a founder of the Cleveland Park Historical Society, which successfully preserved the third largest historic district in the city, and is also a former chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, a past trustee of the National Building Museum, and a past president of the Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington. As counsel to the Brandy Station Foundation in Culpeper County, Virginia, he led the nine-year legal fight which preserved over 1,500 pristine acres of the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War, and was also attorney for the conservation groups in the Virginia Piedmont that stopped the proposed Disney theme park at Manassas. Morley Recounts Washingtonrsquos First Race Riot and Its Troubling Aftermath The Overbeck Lecture Series launched a new season on September 18, 2012, with a gripping account of Washingtonrsquos first race riot and the criminal trials that followed, prosecuted by the cityrsquos politically ambitious district attorney, Francis Scott Key. Washington writer Jefferson Morley told the harrowing tale, based on his book Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 . The title is a reference to Beverly Snow, a former slave whose successful restaurant at Sixth and Pennsylvania N. W. was ransacked by a white mob driven by fears of a slave rebellion. By 1835, freed African Americans in Washington outnumbered those still in bondage, and racial tensions were running high. On the night of August 4th, a drunken slave, Arthur Bowen, stumbled into the bedroom of his owner, Anna Thornton, carrying an ax. Although he did not attack or directly threaten her, the ensuing alarm precipitated a charge of attempted murder and ignited a race riot that engulfed the city for three days. In its aftermath, attorney, poet and slave-holder Francis Scott Key conducted a set of prosecutions that do not reflect well on the ldquoStar-Spangled Bannerrdquo author. Snow-Storm in August author Jefferson Morley has worked as an editor and reporter for Salon . The Washington Post . The Nation . The New Republic and Harperrsquos Magazine . and his account of this largely forgotten chapter of our history has won high critical praise. He can be reached through his publisher at JeffersonMorley . Mary Z. Gray Delights Us with Memories of the 1920s What was it like to live on Capitol Hill nine decades ago On March 18, 2012, Mary Z. Gray brought that era back to life in a superb Overbeck History Lecture based on readings from her new book 301 East Capitol: Tales From the Heart of the Hill. A capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall heard the 93-year-old author recall a neighborhood served by lamplighter, iceman and horse-drawn produce wagon, where a child could wander at will around the Capitol grounds and within the Capitol itself. She recounted being taken to the White House in 1925 to meet President Coolidge and described her colorful family, who had inhabited the Hill for five generations. Gray grew up above her familys inherited funeral parlor at 301 East Capitol Street, a building owned today by the Folger Shakespeare Library. A writer all her adult life, she got her first byline in The Washington Post in 1940, served as a speechwriter in the Kennedy-Johnson White House, and contributed witty, flawlessly crafted articles to The Post, The New York Times and other publications for over half a century. In 2007 she was contacted by Overbeck Project volunteers who were seeking an oral history interview. The encounter led instead to her writing 301 East Capitol . which was published in 2011 by a newly launched Overbeck History Press. The book is available for purchase at local shops and at Amazon . Cindy Hays Digs into Congressional Cemeteryrsquos Past 150 and Its Restoration On February 7, 2012, a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall enjoyed a highly informative illustrated talk by Cindy Hays on the history of Congressional Cemetery and the neighborhoodrsquos successful efforts to rescue the site from decades of decline and neglect. The 30-acre cemetery, which is owned by Christ Church, has served the Capitol Hill community for more than two centuries. Hays served for four years as executive director of the Association for the Preservation of The Historic Congressional Cemetery, the local citizens organization that has restored and refurbished the storied resting place and made it a source of pride for the neighborhood. Among the many historic figures buried there are Matthew Brady, John Philip Sousa, J. Edgar Hoover and dozens of members of Congress. You can learn more about Congressional Cemeteryrsquos history and its remarkable comeback at congressionalcemetery. org. Gordon Brown Tells of quotThe Captain Who Burned His Shipsquot On November 8, 2011, local author Gordon S. Brown delivered an Overbeck History Lecture on the growth of the Washington Navy Yard under its first commandant, Captain Thomas Tingey, and the terrible choice he faced during the British invasion of 1814. Based on his book The Captain Who Burned His Ships . Brown traced the Yards history during the quarter century of Tingeys command - a period when that part of our neighborhood was known to many as Navy Yard Hill. At the time, Brown noted, the Yard was a larger employer than the U. S. Congress and a dominant factor in Capitol Hills social and economic life. A retired diplomat, Gordon Brown has authored several other books, including Incidental Architect . on William Thornton and his influence on early Washington cultural history. He had a 35-year career in the U. S. Foreign Service, where his many postings included director of Arab Gulf Affairs in the State Department, political advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the 1991 Gulf War, and ambassador to Mauritania. Writer on Prohibition Reveals ldquoHow Dry We Werenrsquotrdquo The Overbeck History Lecture Series kicked off a new season on September 13, 2011, with an entertaining look at Prohibition-era Washington, where thirsty locals could choose among nearly three thousand speakeasies and publicly teetotaling congressmen gave a supplier of spirits safe harbor within the U. S. Capitol. Based on his book Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Werenrsquot, literary journalist Garrett Peck described an underground city of amateur bootleggers largely untouched by organized crime and the efforts of local authorities to put them out of business. He traced the main trends and forces that brought Prohibition into being, including the rise of anti-Catholic and anti-German sentiment across the country, the passage of a federal income tax in 1913, which made the U. S. government less reliant on liquor taxes, and, perhaps most important, the success of the womenrsquos suffrage movement, which had formed a powerful alliance with the temperance movement. Peck also noted that Congress imposed a ban on intoxicating beverage sales in Washington, DC before Prohibition was adopted nationally, on the mistaken assumption that the capital would serve as a ldquodryrdquo model for the rest of the country. A frequent public speaker on the social history of alcohol, Peck is also the author of The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet. His Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites in the nationrsquos capital has been featured on C-SPANrsquos Book TV. He can be reached at GarrettPeck . Mort Reviews the History of the Old Naval Hospital On April 19, 2011, as renovation of the Old Naval Hospital at 9th and Pennsylvania S. E. was nearing completion, art and architectural historian Kamissa Mort delivered an excellent Overbeck Lecture detailing the sitersquos 145-year history. The Capitol Hill landmark, now reborn as the Hill Center, was built to treat wounded Navy veterans of the Civil War. Over the years, however, it evolved from hospital, to medical training school, to old soldiers and sailors home, to office space for various DC agencies and public service efforts, and eventually it fell into serious disrepair and neglect. In 2002, concerned Capitol Hill residents formed the Old Naval Hospital Foundation to rehabilitate the facility and make it a center for lifelong learning, cultural events and community life (HillCenterDC. org ). Speaking to a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall, Mort based her lecture on the documentation, photos and artifacts that have been collected by a number of neighborhood researchers to create the Hill Centerrsquos permanent history exhibit. A significant part of her presentation was devoted to the question of who designed the hospital, which was completed in 1866. Although no building plans or other records have been found to identify the architect, Mort made a strong case that the likely designer was the hospitalrsquos builder, Ammi B. Young, who is known to have designed a number of similar mid-19th century public buildings, including military hospitals. Mort earned a masters degree in the history of decorative arts and architecture from the Smithsonianrsquos joint program with the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and has worked as a visitor guide and historian at the U. S. Capitol. In 2010 she curated an exhibit on Arctic explorer and artist Russell W. Porter at the National Archives. Kathy Smith Tracks the Development of Washingtonrsquos Neighborhoods On March 8, 2011, Kathryn Schneider Smith presented an outstanding Overbeck History Lecture based on her newly updated book Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nationrsquos Capital . Using Capitol Hill as a starting point, she explained how DC became a city of neighborhoods, weaving their stories together to reveal pivotal events and themes in the cityrsquos history as hometown and nationrsquos capital. The product of 26 local historians, the book includes two chapters written for the first edition by Ruth Ann Overbeck, to whom the book is dedicated. Smith is an urban and social historian who has specialized in Washingtonrsquos history as an author, editor and teacher, and as creator of numerous local history projects and exhibits. Shersquos the founding executive director of Cultural Tourism DC, a coalition of arts and heritage organizations dedicated to promoting all of Washington as a cultural destination. Shersquos also a past president of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the founding editor of its magazine Washington History . A former resident of Capitol Hill, she lives now with her husband Sam in Freeport, Maine, and chairs the Board of Advisors for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Washington At Home is available for purchase online and at Riverby Books on East Capitol Street. Senate Historian Depicts the Engineer and the Artist Who Transformed the U. S. Capitol On the evening of November 9, 2010, U. S. Senate Historian Donald Ritchie presented an outstanding Overbeck History Lecture on the spectacularly productive relationship between American Army engineer Montgomery Meigs and the Italian fresco painter Constantine Brumidi as they transformed the interior of the U. S. Capitol during the buildings mid-19th century expansion. Many American artists and critics were incensed at the idea that the decoration of the Capitols walls and ceilings should be entrusted to an Italian immigrant, but General Meigs staunchly defended his choice of Brumidi. The ambitious engineer, who not only supervised construction the House and Senate wings and the stately dome we see today but made major changes to the architectural plan as he did so, described Brumidi as an artist quotfull of genius and talentquot who could design quotwith a fertility which is astonishing to me. quot Their partnership would end during the Civil War, but Brumidi devoted another twenty years to the work he began under Meigs supervision, gracing the Capitol with vivid scenes from American history mixed with figures from classical mythology. The Senate Historian based his presentation in part on the contents of Meigs diaries, which were only recently translated from their original shorthand. Ritchie is a frequent contributor of historical commentary on C-SPAN and NPR, and has also published a number of books, including Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corp Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 and The U. S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction . Rogers Reveals the Early Days of Washington Streetcars With streetcar lines about to reappear in Washington after a half-century absence, transportation planner and DC historian Lee H. Rogers launched our 2010-11 lecture season on Tuesday, October 12, with a richly illustrated look at Washington streetcars of the 19th century. Starting with the horse-drawn streetcars in the 1860s, our city saw a proliferation of streetcar styles, lines and companies over the next hundred years. An international transportation consultant and economist, Rogers has pursued a decades-long interest in transportation history. Hersquos a founding member of the Washington Streetcar Museum and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, and has documented the histories of DC neighborhoods. He possesses tens of thousands of historic images of DC area streetcars, trains, bridges and other transportation infrastructure, many of them inherited from the late historian and collector Robert Truax. Gary Scott Elucidates Freemasonry in Washington 150 and Our Neighborhood On April 20, 2010, National Park Service historian Gary Scott treated a rapt audience at the Naval Lodge Hall to a well-researched account of the role of Freemasonry in Washingtonrsquos history, with a particular focus on the Naval Lodge itself. A longtime tour leader for Smithsonian Resident Associates, Scott explored the history and iconography of the lodge at 4th and Pennsylvania S. E. where all Overbeck lectures are held. The lodge was founded in 1805 by officers and workers at the Navy Yard and went on to became a major institution in our community. In addition to recounting the institutionrsquos history, Scott offered explanations of the symbols and murals adorning the lodgersquos Egyptian revival style meeting hall, which was built in 1895. Scott also discussed the extensive Masonic involvement in the building of Washington, including construction of the White House and the Capitol, and offered a touching remembrance of our projectrsquos namesake, Ruth Ann Overbeck, who took a keen interest in the Naval Lodgersquos history and conducted oral history interviews with a number of its older members. Click here for a transcript of Scottrsquos tribute to Ruth Ann. A longtime resident of Capitol Hill, Scott has served as Regional Historian, National Capital Region, for the National Park Service since 1976. He has been a DC Mason since 1975 and served as Worshipful Master of the Naval Lodge in 1996. Dick Wolf Recounts the Battles of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society On March 2, 2010 the Overbeck history lecture series hosted Dick Wolf, past president of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, as he recounted some of the organizationrsquos early battles to save our neighborhood from the bulldozer and wrecking ball. CHRS has been fighting the good fight for more than five decades and deserves much credit for the preservation of the Hillrsquos historic character. Wolf recalled, among other harrowing near-misses, an almost-approved plan in the 1960s that would have routed a freeway directly across Capitol Hill, in a giant trench between 9th and 11th Streets. He also described how local residents stopped the Baptist church at 6th and A Streets N. E. from wiping out an entire block of historic homes to create a Washington mega-headquarters. A longtime resident of the Hill, Wolf has been deeply engaged in land use and historic preservation efforts throughout our city for more than four decades, helping to establish the DC preservation law, the DC Comprehensive Plan, the Capitol Hill Historic District, and much more. He served as president of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society from 1977 to 1980 and again from 2005 to 2009. Mary Z. Gray Remembers Capitol Hill in the 1920s On the afternoon of November 8, 2009, the Naval Lodge Hall rang with laughter and delight as Washington writer Mary Z. Gray read excerpts from her forthcoming memoirs and answered questioned about growing up on Capitol Hill in the 1920s. Born Mary Zurhorst in 1919, Ms. Gray spent her childhood living above the Zurhorst funeral parlor at 301 East Capitol (which now houses offices of the Folger Shakespeare Library) among a quirky and memorable extended family that had inhabited the Hill for four generations. Her book vividly recalls a neighborhood served by gas lamps and trolley cars, iceman and ragman, produce peddler and the ldquoLavender Lady, rdquo while exploring a family mystery that took five decades to unravel. Grayrsquos long career as a reporter, writer and editor included service as a White House speech writer in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the frequent contribution of droll personal essays to the Washington Post and the New York Times, some of which appear in her 1984 book Ah, Bewilderness. Muddling Through Life With Mary Z. Gray . The Overbeck History Project takes special pride in this presentation, having actively encouraged Ms. Gray in the writing of her memoirs. Now being shopped to publishers, they offer a wonderful window on the life of our neighborhood in the early 20th century. Janke Profiles the Onetime Owner of Most of Capitol Hill On September 22, 2009, local historian Cindy Janke presented an excellent illustrated Overbeck Lecture on William Prout . the 18th century owner of the land that today comprises most of the Capitol Hill Historic District, a wedge of territory stretching from the Navy Yard waterfront to present-day Florida Avenue. Historical accounts of the Districtrsquos founding have tended to focus on Daniel Carroll, who provided the land for the U. S. Capitol, but Janke pointed out that the largely forgotten Prout played a bigger role than Carroll in the development of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. He was instrumental, for example, in persuading President Jefferson to authorize the creation of the original Eastern Market. This was Jankersquos third Overbeck lecture. She delivered an excellent one in 2006 on Capitol Hillrsquos 19th century breweries and another in 2007 on John Philip Sousarsquos years in our neighborhood. A former curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection, she is a longtime explorer of the cityrsquos past and co-author, with Ruth Ann Overbeck, of a groundbreaking study of Prout. She serves now on the collections committee of the DC Historical Society and the steering committee of the Overbeck Project. She is also writing the caption material for a forthcoming pictorial book on ldquoWashington Past and Present. rdquo Hill Historians Describe Early Emancipation in DC On April 14, 2009, the Overbeck project continued its celebration of the Lincoln bicentennial with a lecture by Capitol Hill historians Robert S. Pohl and John R. Wennersten based on their new book Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia . an annotated collection of 19th century public documents, narratives and newspaper accounts that illuminate a little-known part of DC history. Emancipation in the District came on April 16, 1862, nine months prior to the general Emancipation Proclamation, with a special sweetener for local slave holders. They were paid for the loss of their property. In their presentation, Pohl and Wennersten gave special attention to events in our own neighborhood leading up to and ensuing from the early emancipation, including the erection of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park. Their book is published by Friends of the Southeast Library, with sales proceeds devoted to expansion of the libraryrsquos Capitol Hill history research room. Robert Pohl is an I. T. professional and architectural historian whose first book was a history of his own house on 11th Street Southeast. John Wennersten is a retired professor of history and government and the author of several books, including a history of the Anacostia River which served as the basis for his Overbeck Lecture in September 2007. Author Sheds New Light On the Lincoln Assassination On February 10, 2009, the Overbeck project marked the impending bicentennial of Abraham Lincolnrsquos birth with a lecture by DC historian Anthony Pitch based on his highly praised new book ldquoThey Have Killed Papa Deadrdquo: The Road to Fordrsquos Theatre, Abraham Lincolnrsquos Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance . Pitch recounted how, through nearly a decade of research, he was able to make a number of new discoveries about the Lincoln plot and its aftermath, including an attempt by John Wilkes Booth to accost Lincoln in the U. S. Capitol on the day of his second inauguration. The presentation was a return performance for Pitch. In 2003 (see below) he delivered a superb Overbeck lecture on the burning of Washington by the British in 1814, based on his book on that subject. The author of several other books as well, Pitch has worked as a journalist in England, Africa and Israel, as a broadcast editor for the Associated Press, and as a senior writer for US News and World Report rsquos books division. He is a highly sought-after public speaker and has been featured as a historical commentator on NPR, The History Channel and C-SPAN, among other media outlets. He also has developed a broad following as a director of historic tours in the Washington area, where he can be reached at dcsightseeing. Expert Animator quotVisualizesquot Early Washington On November 11, 2008, digital graphics expert Dan Bailey treated a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall to an engaging presentation of his 3-D animations of Washington, DC as it would have appeared around 1812, just before the British invasion. The Overbeck lecture audience included no fewer than eight of our previous speakers, and the event turned into a kind of seminar on the challenges of mapping and picturing the early city based on sketchy and often inaccurate contemporary depictions and eye-witness accounts. Bailey, who directs the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, created his quotbest guessquot glimpse of early Washington by collaborating with architectural historians, cartographers, engineers and ecologists familiar with the Districts history and early topography. Bailey has won numerous awards for his films and animations, which have been included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. A pilot of his visualization of early DC was exhibited at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in the spring of 2008, and it received extensive attention in a August 31, 2008 Washington Post Magazine article by our September speaker Scott W. Berg. Author Describes LEnfants Rocky Relationship With the City He Helped Create On September 9, 2008, our lecture audience got a compelling look at the French visionary who designed the original plan for Washington, DC. Local author Scott W. Berg described Pierre LEnfants critical role in the creation of the federal city, his stormy relationships with his patrons and overseers, and his fall into obscurity through most of the 19th century after others took over the execution of his ideas and significantly amended them. Berg is the author of an excellent LEnfant biography, Grand Avenues . which traces the Frenchmans artistic and professional roots in 18th century Paris, his service in the American Revolution under General George Washington, and his brief and troubled commission to create the basic layout of a new capital city. Among other insights, Berg offered a description of LEnfants plan to assign the squares and circles that appear at avenue intersections around the city as home bases for the individual states of the union. Berg teaches nonfiction writing and literature at George Mason and frequently contributes articles on historical subjects to the Washington Post. You can learn more about him and his book at scottwberg. Local Legend Extols Capitol Hill Row House Designs On April 8, 2008, historic restoration expert C. Dudley Brown delighted a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue with a pictorial presentation on the unique character and features of Capitol Hills historic row houses. A living legend in local historic preservation circles, Mr. Brown delivered trenchant commentary on the mistakes and misconceptions that have periodically threatened the neighborhoods historic housing stock . For decades Mr. Brown has been a tireless advocate for historic preservation in our neighborhood while heading one of the Washington areas oldest firms specializing in historic restoration and traditional interior design. C. Dudley Brown amp Associates has completed hundreds of projects for private residences, churches, clubs and public buildings and has won numerous awards and honors, including the DC Mayors Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation and the Designer of Distinction Award from the American Society of Interior Designers. For an interesting account of Mr. Browns career and his personal involvement in the community, read the transcript of our projects interview with him, recorded in 2002. John Vlach Returns to Discuss African American Housing A sizable crowd braved an ice storm on the evening of February 12, 2008, to hear noted folklife and architectural historian John M. Vlach share findings from his recent studies of 19th century African American housing in the District, with a special look at the alley dwellings of Capitol Hill. This was a return appearance for Vlach, who delivered an outstanding Overbeck lecture five years earlier on the landowners and residents of Capitol Hill at the time of the federal citys founding. (See the report on that April 2003 presentation below, along with a link to Vlachs article on the subject for the U. S. Capitol Historical Society.) A longtime Capitol Hill resident, Vlach is a professor of American studies and anthropology at George Washington University, where he has taught for 27 years. He has authored 10 books, including Back of the Big House and The Planters Prospect . and is the curator of an exhibition entitled quotLandscape of Slaveryquot at the Art Museum of the University of Virginia. He also serves on the DC Historic Preservation Review Board and is a valued adviser to the Overbeck Project, where he assists with the training of volunteers. Janke Delivers November 07 Lecture on Capitol Hills John Philip Sousa The Overbeck Project celebrated John Philip Sousas birthday on November 6, 2007, with a lecture by Capitol Hill historian Lucinda P. Janke . whose knowledge of this local hero and international celebrity ranges from his stellar achievements as a composer and band leader to the ingredients of his mothers spaghetti recipe. She presented a pictorial tour of Sousas several homes in the neighborhood and traced other aspects of his remarkable life. A former curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection, Janke is a longtime explorer of the citys past and co-author, with Ruth Ann Overbeck, of a groundbreaking study of one of Capitol Hills founding landowners, William Prout. She serves now on the collections committee of the Historical Society of Washington and also on the Overbeck Projects steering committee. Wennersten Lecture Explores Our Neighborhoods River With a new baseball stadium and various waterfront development proposals focusing new attention on the river that partially bounds our neighborhood, Capitol Hill historian John R. Wennersten led off the Overbeck History Lecture season on September 11, 2007, with a look at the significance of the Anacostia to the city and the nation. Based on a forthcoming book, Wennerstens presentation explored the early days of capital-building, when the Anacostia figured largely in Pierre LEnfants vision of Washington as a political and commercial center, and the Civil War-era transformation of the waterway into an urban river and sewage conduit whose problems continued into the modern era. The river, he noted, became a metaphor for regional racial divisions that extended from slavery days through the public housing controversies and urban discontent of the twentieth century. A retired professor of history and government, Wennersten taught for 32 years on three campuses of the University of Maryland system, as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. His earlier books include The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay Maryland s Eastern Shore, a Journey in Time and Place and Chesapeake Bay , An Environmental Biography . April 10 Overbeck Lecture: Hollywood on the Potomac On April 10, 2007, Hill Rag film critic Michael Canning delivered an Overbeck History Lecture on the strange, ill-informed and occasionally accurate ways that Hollywood moviemakers have depicted Washington, DC. With clips from films spanning most of the twentieth century, Canning presented amusing examples of mangled geography and cultural tone-deafness, along with some notable cases where the filmmakers actually got it right, and featured a number of scenes shot on Capitol Hill. Canning has also left us his lecture notes. A longtime Hill resident, Canning worked for 28 years as a press and cultural officer for the U. S. Information Agency both in Washington and overseas, and began writing movie reviews for the Rag upon his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1993. Since 1999 he has also served as a programmer and commentator for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshops classic films series. In addition, he has published a number of articles on the treatment of Washington and the U. S. Congress in American feature films, including a paper delivered to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in 1997. Feldman Explores the Past and Future of the National Mall On the evening of February 27, 2007 , Judy Scott Feldman delivered an excellent illustrated lecture on how the National Mall has evolved from Pierre LEnfants original vision to its reality today and how it might look in the future. Ms. Feldman chairs the National Coalition to Save Our Mall, a nonprofit, all-volunteer citizens organization, and is a widely respected authority on issues surrounding the Malls further development. According to Feldman, LEnfant considered the Mall the most important element of his plan for the capital city, the nexus of federal and local life, but his concept was never really achieved. Feldman showed that the Malls history has been one of constant change, of LEnfants democratic idea ignored, deferred, replaced, and recast to suit changing needs, and she also raised some provocative questions about how the Mall might best meet the needs of the next hundred years. A native Washingtonian, Feldman earned B. A. and M. A. degrees in art history from Penn State University and a Ph. D. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. After several years of teaching at the University of Dallas, she moved back to Washington in 1993 and taught medieval art history and Washington architecture at American University. She left AU in 1999 to devote herself to the work of the Coalition, educating the public about Mall history, current issues, and creative ideas for the Malls future. She also lectures frequently on art history and Washington topics for the Smithsonians Resident Associates program. You can learn more about her organization at savethemall. org. Wadsworth Marks Projects Five-Year Anniversary With Memories of Capitol Hill in the 1920s and 30s In observation of the five-year anniversary of our oral history project, our Overbeck History Lecture on November 14, 2006, took the form of a staged interview with one of our more remarkable interviewees, Margaret Wadsworth, who delighted her audience with recollections of Capitol Hill in the 1920s and 30s. The dialogue was conducted by Beth Eck, who interviewed Mrs. Wadsworth for our project in April 2005, and was accompanied by projected scenes of the neighborhood as it appeared in Mrs. Wadsworths childhood and as it appears today. Born Margaret Fleming in 1920, Mrs. Wadsworth spent her childhood in her familys home in the 500 block of 8th Street S. E. in the heart of the Barracks Row business corridor, and later on Bay Street S. E. She attended the Holy Comforter elementary school, graduated from Eastern High School, and made an early attempt at a singing career, auditioning for band leader Bob Crosby and performing briefly on Arthur Godfreys radio show. She and her late husband raised their family in the neighborhood, but moved to Arlington after the 1968 riots. She worked for many years at the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard and also at the Smithsonian. She serves now as a volunteer teachers aide, reading to children at Glen Forest Elementary in Fairfax. Ackerman Recounts the History of Eastern Market The Overbeck History Lectures launched a new season on the evening of September 19, 2006, with Capitol Hill author Stephen J. Ackerman presenting an illustrated history of Eastern Market. The lecture was based on Ackermans forthcoming book on the subject and coincided with the 200th anniversary of the markets founding at its original site near 6th and L Streets S. E. Publication of the book is being supported by the Overbeck Project. Ackerman disclosed a wealth of detail from the markets improbable history, including the period when the buildings north hall served as a stable for the firehouse next door and another when the basement served as a rifle range. A Capitol Hill native and sixth-generation Washingtonian, Ackerman has pursued a varied career, moving from college English teacher to congressional aide to federal civil servant, and has worked for the past twenty years as a free lance writer. His highly readable historical articles have appeared in American Heritage, Smithsonian, Preservation, American History, Washington Post Magazine and many other publications. He can be reached at sjasjackerman The Navys Top Historian Gives History of the Navy Yard A near-capacity crowd gathered at the Naval Lodge meeting hall on April 11, 2006, for an illustrated history of the Washington Navy Yard, presented by the U. S. Naval Historical Centers lead historian, Edward J. Marolda . Few people today are aware of how great a role the Navy Yard has played in the life and development of Capitol Hill. The walled facility at the foot of 8th Street was once the biggest builder of Navy ships in the country, and then became the biggest manufacturer of munitions. For roughly 150 years it was our neighborhoods largest employer and a much more significant driver of the communitys growth than Congress and the Capitol. Dr. Marolda is the author and editor of several books on U. S. Navy history and traditions, including The Washington Navy Yard: An Illustrated History . which is generally available for purchase at the gift shop of the Navy Yard museum. Janke Depicts quotThe Breweries of Capitol Hillquot On February 7, Capitol Hill historian Lucinda Janke treated a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge meeting hall to a charming look at the breweries that thrived in our neighborhood in the days before Prohibition. Although hardly a trace of them remains today, in the late 19th century the Hill boasted two of Washingtons largest breweries, one in the block where Stuart Hobson Junior High stands today, the other at the site of the present-day 14th Street Safeway. The latter facility, which operated under various names and owners and had a beer garden that seated more than a thousand customers, greeted Prohibition by successfully converting to the manufacture of ice cream. Ms. Janke showed an array of photos and other brewery memorabilia, and introduced about a dozen members of the audience who are direct descendents of Washingtons 19th century brewers, most of whom were German immigrants. A former curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection and board member of the DC Historical Society, Ms. Janke is a longtime explorer of the citys past and co-author, with Ruth Ann Overbeck, of a groundbreaking study of one of Capitol Hills founding landowners, William Prout . She also serves on the steering committee of the Overbeck Project. Smithsonian Curator Salutes quotThe Instrument Makers of Capitol Hillquot On November 15, 2005. Deborah J. Warner of the Smithsonians National Museum of American History delivered an interesting talk on a group of Capitol Hill residents who contributed greatly to the advancement of American science, surveying and geodesy. In the 19th century, Warner noted, a number of scientific instrument makers lived and worked in this neighborhood, supplying the needs of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey and a variety of other government and private clients. These highly skilled craftsmen, most of them German immigrants, turned out telescopes, surveyors transits, heliostats and other precision devices that were needed for mapping, astronomy and other scientific pursuits. Among the craftsmen featured in the talk was Edward Kbel, whose workshop in the three hundred block of First Street N. E. produced the heliostat that Albert Michelson used for measuring the speed of light. Warner is curator of the History Museum s Physical Sciences Collection, which includes a number of instruments that were made by Kbel and other Hill manufacturers. The collection can be browsed at americanhistory2.si. educollectionssurveying. September Lecture Profiles quotThe Communist Who Designed Eastern Marketquot The 2005-06 season of Overbeck History Lectures opened on the evening of September 13 with a charming look at Adolf Cluss, the visionary Navy Yard engineer and architect who designed Eastern Market and many other 19th century Washington landmarks. Joseph L. Browne . director of a new Cluss exhibition at the Sumner School Museum, delivered the lecture to a near-capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue. A friend and follower of Karl Marx in his native Germany, Adolf Cluss arrived on Capitol Hill in 1849 with grand ideas for reforming society and becoming a major architect. He eventually cooled on Communism, but succeeded spectacularly as a designer of some of Washingtons most distinctive buildings, including the Smithsonians Arts and Industries building and Wallach School, which stood where Hine Junior High stands today. Working with Alexander Boss Shepherd and others, he played a major role in changing the face of Washington in the latter half of the 19th century. Our speaker, Joseph Browne, earned a Ph. D. in American Studies at the University of Maryland and taught history for thirty years at schools in the U. S. Germany, England and Italy. Hes the author of a Maryland regional history, Sotweed to Suburbia . and co-author of the Cluss exhibition book. You can learn more about Cluss at the exhibitions web site: adolf-cluss. org. Authors Recall the 1932 quotBonus Armyquot At our Overbeck History Lecture on April12, 2005, Washington writers Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen vividly described how tens of thousands of impoverished World War I veterans descended upon Washington in 1932 to seek payment of a bonus (basically one dollar per day of service) that Congress had promised them but had put off paying until 1945. These Bonus Army petitioners camped for months in tents and shacks along the Anacostia River and in empty buildings elsewhere around the city, only to be forcibly evicted eventually by the very Army in which most of them had served. Dickson and Allen explained how the men ultimately won their bonus and instilled in their country a new sense of obligation to military veterans, which led to passage of the GI Bill in World War II. Dickson and Allen are co-authors of the highly praised The Bonus Army: An American Epic . and are collaborating on a documentary film on the Bonus Marchers for public television. Allen is a longtime contributor to National Geographic and the author of numerous books and articles on U. S. and military history. Dickson is a contributing editor to Washingtonian magazine and a consulting editor at Merriam-Webster, Inc. You can learn more about these writers at tballen and pauldicksonbooks Rogers Recalls Washingtons Railways and the Rise of Union Station A capacity crowd gathered at the Naval Lodge Hall on the evening of February 15, 2005 to hear Lee H. Rogers give us a fascinating history of Washingtons railroad service and the creation of Union Station. Prior to the consolidation of routes that occurred with Union Stations construction at the beginning of the 20th century, Rogers noted, DC residents had to choose from as many as eight different railway stations within the city, depending on which line they wanted to ride and where they wanted to go. (Rogers showed slides of these stations and the trains they served, drawing in part on the extensive photo archive of DC historian Robert A. Truax.) An international transportation planner and economist, Rogers has worked on transport projects in fourteen countries while also pursuing a decades-long interest in the history of Washington, where he has lived since 1953. He frequently gives lectures and slide presentations on Washingtons streetcars, canals, bridges and other transportation infrastructure. Hes a founding member of the Washington Streetcar Museum and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, and has researched the histories of District neighborhoods on 14th Street N. W. and H Street N. E. Rogers is a graduate of American University and a member of the U. S. Transportation Research Board. Rimensnyder Asks for New Respect for Washingtons Boss Shepherd At our Overbeck History Lecture on the evening of November 9, 2005, Capitol Hill historian Nelson Rimensnyder offered a compelling portrait of the legendary 19th century territorial governor who turned Washington, DC into a modern city. Alexander R. Shepherd was an unjustly maligned civic leader, Rimensnyder contended, whose statue should be restored to its previous place of honor in front of the District building on Pennsylvania Avenue. The statue was, in fact, returned to the site in January 2005 due to Rimensnyders efforts and other public pressure . As Rimensnyder noted, as late as 1870 Washington remained an embarrassing backwater marked by mud streets, open sewers and wandering livestock, lending credibility to the serious movement then underway to have the national capital moved to St. Louis. More than any other individual, Alexander Shepherd changed all that, with a massive effort to grade and pave the streets, improve the parks, and install new lighting, water and sanitation systems. But by plunging forward with this effort without the expected level of financial support from Congress, he also left the city bankrupt and incurred the derision of partisan press lords, who dubbed him Boss Shepherd. Rimensnyder says it was grossly unfair to lump Shepherd with the likes of New Yorks Boss Tweed, and notes that this urban visionary also worked to change the social landscape as an outspoken supporter of womens suffrage and racial equality. Rimensnyder has been a student of DC history and a champion of DC home rule since his high school days in Pennsylvania, where he lobbied his state legislators to approve the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution giving District residents the right to vote for President. Later, working at the Library of Congress (1970-1975) and then as director of research for the U. S. House Committee on the District of Columbia (1975-1992), he compiled what he describes as the only existing comprehensive archive on the history of the complex DC-Federal relationship. He has been intensively involved in local historic preservation efforts and has served on the boards of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Brad Snyder Opens Our 2004-05 Season With Washingtons Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball Award-winning sports reporter and author Brad Snyder led off the Overbeck Projects 2004-05 lecture season on September 14 with a look at professional baseball in Washington in the 1940s. In those years the citys fans could choose between the Washington Senators, who hovered near the bottom of the segregated major leagues, and the Homestead Grays, one of the greatest teams in the history of the Negro Leagues, with legendary sluggers Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard, among others. Snyder described how the contrast between the two teams, and the dogged advocacy of local sports reporter Sam Lacy, made Washington, D. C. a focal point in the campaign to integrate major league baseball well before the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier with the signing of Jackie Robinson. Brad Snyder is author of the widely acclaimed Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball (Contemporary Books, 2003). The New York Times Book Review called it a rich panorama of Washington as it evolved from a Southern provincial town to a large city with a black majority Snyders book is not just the history of a team but the tale of one city in all its social complexity. You can find out more about the book at beyondtheshadow. In the early 1990s, Snyder was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun . where he covered the Orioles and also Baltimore city crime and Capitol Hill. He left the Sun to earn a law degree at Yale and later practiced briefly with Williams and Connolly LLP, but he has since returned full-time to his first love writing about the business and sociology of sports. Tom Kelly Recalls Capitol Hill in the Jazz Age and the Great Depression The 2003-04 season of the Overbeck History Lectures concluded on the evening of April 13 with a charming look at life on Capitol Hill during the 1920s and 30s. Hill native and longtime journalist Tom Kelly offered vivid memories of his childhood here in the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. His descriptions were mainly excerpts from the early chapters of his memoirs a work in progress. Mr. Kelly grew up on the 400 block of Constitution Avenue N. E. (then known as B Street), where he and his wife Marguerite later raised their family and still reside today. He was recently interviewed for the Overbeck project by one of our volunteers, Andrea Kerr, and the transcript of that exchange will be posted soon on our Interviewees page. Tom Kellys first newspaper job was as a copy boy at the Washington Post in 1939. After serving in the Navy during World War II, graduating from Penn State, and reporting for two papers in Louisiana, he covered the White House during the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations for the old Washington Daily News. He later served in the federal Office for Economic Opportunity and as Director of National Affairs for the newly formed VISTA program. From 1970 to 1986 he free lanced, and then worked part time for the Washington Times until 1993, when he retired at age 70. Potter Describes Our Predecessors on the Potomac On the evening of February 10, 2004, a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue S. E. heard a fascinating account of the Native Americans who populated the Washington area prior to European contact. National Park Service archeologist Stephen R. Potter presented a lecture called Contested Ground: Aboriginal America and the Potomac Frontier, A. D. 700 to 1676. The area where we live today, Potter showed, was highly prized and fought over by a variety of bands of Algonquian-speaking peoples, whose alliances and trade relationships stretched from the Virginia Capes to the Great Lakes and southern Ontario. Dr. Potters observations were based in part on recent archeological discoveries within the District of Columbia and were accompanied by slides of old maps, illustrations and unearthed artifacts. (Some of the information presented in his lecture is available at nps. govrap. Click on Exhibits, then Prehistoric Landscapes of the Nations Capital .) Dr. Potter, who serves as head archeologist for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service, has a Ph. D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has written and lectured widely on the prehistoric and historic archeology of the eastern United States, the 17th century Chesapeake frontier, the southern Algonquian Indians, and the archeology and history of the American Civil War. C. R. Gibbs Tells of DCs Black Civil War Regiment On November 18, 2003, our Overbeck lecture audience heard Capitol Hill historian C. R. Gibbs deliver a moving presentation on the First Regiment, U. S. Colored Troops, the black Civil War regiment that was recruited and trained in Washington, D. C. In the spring of 1863, Israel Bethel AME Church, which stood approximately where the Rayburn House Office Building stands today, became the main recruiting station for this brave collection of fugitive slaves and freedmen from throughout the region who volunteered to fight for the Union cause. Mr. Gibbs is the author of five books on African American history, including the recently published Black, Copper amp Bright: The District of Columbia s Black Civil War Regiment . He has also written for dozens of newspapers and magazines, lectured at schools and universities throughout the Washington region and beyond, and mounted a variety of historical exhibits for museums and other organizations. His expert guidance has been sought in connection with a variety of video and television productions, and his anecdotal history tours for the Smithsonian Associates and other groups are among the best in the city. Copies of Black, Copper amp Bright and other books by Mr. Gibbs were available for purchase and author signature at the end of the lecture. Anthony Pitch Describes the 1814 Burning of Washington The 2003-04 season of of Overbeck History Lectures got off to a dramatic start on Tuesday evening, September 16, as the highly regarded author and lecturer Anthony S. Pitch told the gripping story of the British capture of Washington, DC in the summer of 1814, with a special focus on events on Capitol Hill. The burning of the Capitol, the White House and most other government buildings in the District brought our new country precariously close to extinction and of course were devastating blows to this fledgling community. The lecture was held, as usual, in the visually striking Egyptian Revival style meeting hall of the Naval Lodge building at 330 Pennsylvania Avenue S. E. Anthony Pitch is the author of The Burning of Washington : The British Invasion of 1814, along with numerous other books and publications, and is noted for his excellent anecdotal history tours for the Smithsonian Resident Associates and other organizations. He has worked as a journalist in England, Africa and Israel, served as senior writer in the books division of U. S. News amp World Report, and is now at work on a new history of the Lincoln assassination. He can be reached at dcsightseeing. I thought this evening we would concentrate on my fathers ancestors in Washington. My mother was a Stoutenbourgh. Her family dates back to the 1200s when the Stoutenbourgh dynasty was a royal family in Holland. This is the story of two incredibly productive and successful Washingtonians of German descent who came to Washington after the Civil War. Their collective energy and business acumen substantially shaped our great city, as we know it today. Albert Carry was a self made man, a prominent Washington brewer, real estate investor, banker and philanthropist. Mr. Carry hired Clement August Didden, a prominent Washington Architect to design buildings to their highest and best use on corners all over downtown to house National Capital Brewing Co. s many wholly owned pubs. The building in which we celebrate Washington s history tonight is testament to the profitability of a pint of liquid bread at the turn of the century. On May 24, 1905 (exactly 95 years ago today), the Brewers oldest daughter Marie married the Architects oldest son, George. These were our paternal grandparents. April 8 Overbeck History Lecture Looks At Capitol Hill Before LEnfant At our Overbeck History Lecture on April 8, 2003, noted author, GWU professor and longtime Hill resident John M. Vlach took a spellbound audience back to Capitol Hill Before LEnfant to the woods, streams and plantations that were here before the grand design for a federal city was superimposed. Vlach treated a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall to a pictorial tour of the Hills perimeter, where most of the 18th century landowners had their homes, slave quarters and tobacco barns. Click here for the text of Vlachs lecture, along with the many maps and slides that he showed. Also, check out the very interesting article Vlach wrote for a recent issue of the newsletter of the U. S. Capitol Historical Society. In it he thoroughly debunks the oft-repeated claim that Capitol Hill was once known as Jenkins Hill Vlach is a professor of Anthropology and American Studies at George Washington University and the author of ten books, including Charleston Blacksmith, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, Folk Art and Art Worlds . and Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery . He also has curated a number of exhibitions for the Smithsonians Museum of American History and other institutions around the country and has generously assisted the Overbeck Project as a conceptual adviser and as a trainer of our volunteers. February History Lecture Explores quotOur Neighborhoods Riverquot At our Overbeck History Lecture on February 11, 2003, Don Hawkins described for a capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge hall how our neighborhoods river, the Anacostia, has shaped our community and been shaped by it. Few people today are aware that Washingtons founders sited the federal city in this particular place along the Potomac not so much because of what the Potomac had to offer but because of its Anacostia tributary. It was the Anacostia that had the best harbor, and it provided passage for ocean-going ships, in those days, all the way up to Bladensburg. Since then, of course, the river has silted in from agricultural runoff and suffered other serious degradation. To find out more about the rivers ecology and what can be done to clean it up, go to cbf. organacostia. Don Hawkins is an architect by profession, but hes probably better known locally for his avocation as a historian of early Washington and its topography. Hes drawn and published dozens of maps and illustrations showing how our area looked to early European settlers and how it evolved over the years. His many other research projects include a reconstruction of William Thorntons lost design for the U. S. Capitol, which is on display today in the crypt under the Capitols rotunda. Hawkins grew up in Arlington, and studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and Catholic University, where he also received a masters degree in urban design. Hes a frequent lecturer on D. C. history at the Smithsonian, at local historical societies, and at most of our areas universities. Sam and Kathy Smith Spark Memories of the 60s On the evening of November 12, 2002, husband-and-wife team Sam Smith and Kathryn Schneider Smith presented one of our most successful Overbeck History Lectures yet, a very entertaining and informative look at Capitol Hill in the turbulent 1960s. Sam and Kathy were prominent activists here in those days, and their lecture quotCauldron and Community: Joining the Hill in the 1960squot looked back on a decade when Congress grappled with civil rights and the war on poverty while people living in the shadow of the dome struggled to save a neighborhood hit hard by neglect, misguided development, and middle class flight to the suburbs. If you missed the event, click below for a full transcript of their remarks. Kathy gives a great description of her involvement with Friendship House and other community efforts. And Sam, who was founder and editor of the Capitol East Gazette, gives a very colorful view of a community awakening to change, culminating in a gripping account of the 1968 riots. Kathy today is executive director of the D. C. Heritage Tourism Coalition, which she helped start five years ago to bring more of Washingtons visitors into the citys downtown and residential areas. Shes the author and editor of a number of books on the history of our city, including Washington at Home: Neighborhoods in the Nations Capital, and is the founding editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D. C. which she also served as president. Sam, who helped to found the D. C. Statehood Party and the national Green Party, today is editor of The Progressive Review and a prominent critic and commentator on D. C. life and politics. The first of his four books, Captive Capital, which he wrote in 1974, is still one of the basic books about Washington. To read Kathy Smiths lecture Click Here To read Sam Smiths Lecture Click Here September Lecture Looks At Civil War Capitol Hill Our Ruth Ann Overbeck History Lecture Series began its new season on the evening of September 10, 2002, with a fascinating look at life in our neighborhood during the Civil War. A capacity crowd at the Naval Lodge Hall was held spellbound by American University professor and Civil War authority Edward C. Smith as he described how the conflict to preserve the Union profoundly altered the life of our community. Among other things, he pointed out, the Navy Yard down at the foot of 8th Street brought in hundreds of new workers to service the ships and churn out munitions for the war effort. A neighborhood church became a recruiting station for U. S. Colored Troop 1. And on the site of present-day Lincoln Park, the largest hospital in the city sprang up, treating thousands of wounded soldiers. Professor Smith is a third-generation Washingtonian and the Director of American Studies at AU, where hes taught since 1969. Hes also achieved a wide following as a Civil War, African-American cultural heritage and art history lecturer and study tour leader for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Society, the National Park Service and the D. C. Historical Society. April 2002 Lecture Explores Freemasonry on the Hill Another capacity crowd gathered at the Naval Lodge hall at 4th and Pennsylvania on the evening of April 9, 2002, to hear Barbara Franco deliver the second in our series of Ruth Ann Overbeck History Lectures - a fascinating look at the role of Freemasons in our neighborhoods history. Franco, who became an expert on Freemasonry and other fraternal organizations in American history while serving at the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts, spoke in some detail about the history of the Naval Lodge itself, and used the halls elaborate interior to illustrate Freemasonrys symbols and beliefs. Naval Lodge 4, which was founded in 1805 by officers and workers at the Navy Yard, has played a major role in the social and economic life of Capitol Hill. As president of the Historical Society of Washington, D. C. Franco also provided an update on the societys plans for the new D. C. history museum, which is scheduled to open on Mount Vernon Square in 2003. New Lecture Series Is a Hit An enthusiastic, capacity crowd gathered at the Naval Lodge Hall on Pennsylvania Avenue on the evening of February 5, 2002, to hear Edmund and Sylvia Morris deliver the first of our Overbeck History Lectures, a fascinating presentation on quotWashington in the time of Theodore Roosevelt. quot Edmund Morris is the author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt . which won the Pulitzer Prize, and its widely praised sequel, Theodore Rex . His wife Sylvia Jukes Morris wrote the highly regarded biography of TRs wife, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady . The Morrises also are our Capitol Hill neighbors. All of our lectures are held at the Naval Lodge Hall at 330 Pennsylvania Avenue S. E. This intact 1895 Masonic temple, decorated in the Egyptian Revival style, is one of our neighborhoods architectural treasures. Our thanks to the Lodge, and to all our volunteers who helped make our first lecture a great success. Kiplinger Backs Our Lecture Series In December 2001, the Overbeck Project received a generous grant from the Kiplinger Foundation to support our new lecture series on Washington, D. C. history. The Overbeck Lectures began on February 5, 2002, with a presentation by Edmund and Sylvia Morris on quotTheodore Roosevelts Washington. quot The Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project, Washington, D. C.
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