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Books by Paul K. Williams
Washington D.C.
More books on the way! Paul K. Williams and Greg Alexander have recently completed a history of the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore that will be published in the spring of 2007. Stay tuned and check back soon! To date, customers have purchased more than 25,000 books authored by Paul K. Williams. All but one of the above books (Nostalgic Views of Washington, D.C.) can be ordered directly when you Shop at Amazon.com! here or by clicking on links below.
Books Currently in Print: co-author T. Luke Young Washington D.C. today is primarily known for its expansive mall and world recognized monuments, but relatively little has been published on the historic neighborhoods where residents have lived since the site of the Nation's Capitol was selected in 1790. By comparing rare vintage photographs to contemporary views, this book paints a fascinating historical portrait of the dynamic neighborhoods supporting the growth and prosperity of the nation's capitol. With over 165 vintage photographs and captivating current images, this book compares old scenes of the past with today's vibrant city, including nightlife along U Street, produce and fish markets along the waterfront, popular drinking holes on Pennsylvania Avenue, Bladensburg Road once a narrow country lane transformed into suburban sprawl, a spectacular train crash at Union Station, Orville Wright's groundbreaking test flight in 1909, prestigious Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill, an unaltered leafy Woodland Drive in Massachusetts Heights, Anacostia and Mount Pleasant residential areas, and Georgetown's renowned Dodge Mansion radically changed over the years.
Nostalgic Views of Washington, D.C.
In Nostalgic Views of Washington, D.C ., Paul K. Williams presents a visual record of that change. From rare Civil War photographs to landmark twentieth century journalism, these images record the people, the events, and the everyday life that makes up the capitol's story. (128 pages, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, black & white: available only at Borders Bookstores)
Images of America: Washington, DC During The World War II Years The Nation's Capitol was obviously central in the county's planning and preparations for World War II, with the creation of new government agencies such as the War Food Administration or the dramatic expansion of existing ones, most of which doubled their number of workers and ordered the construction of hundreds of temporary facilities across the city, and on its treasured Mall. Washington residents witnessed the local population nearly double in a few short years, as a mostly female work force descended on the city, while its male population went off to combat in Europe and the Pacific. The city was protected by military personnel armed with antiaircraft guns, while its occupants started Victory gardens and scrap drives and suffered the effects of severe rationing, as did the rest of the Nation. Washington also witnessed the largest office building in the world being completed in just 16 months, the famous Pentagon. Washington, DC: The World War II Years captures nearly 200 fascinating images from this era, from the beginning stages of preparation, little known civic defense organizations, to the VE and VJ celebratory parades at a time when America honors what is coined the greatest generation on with the unveiling of the first WWII Memorial on the Mall.
College History Series: Georgetown University co-author Paul R. O'Neill Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America, rests in Washington, D.C. and predates the district's creation by several years. Founded in 1789 and chartered by Congress in 1815, Georgetown experienced many of the same trials faced by the United States, and like the country, triumphed to enjoy extended prestige and prosperity. Georgetown University is a photographic journey through the school's past, celebrating the heritage of one of today?s premier education facilities. More than 200 vintage images illustrate the beloved campus, early classes, annual events, and prolific leaders. The story begins with the school?s founder Archbishop John Carroll, who experienced religious persecution in Europe. Twice during the 1800s, the schools enrollment dropped so low that consideration was given to relocating the school or closing it completely. The Civil War turned students into soldiers and classrooms into hospitals; school colors of blue and grey remind us even today of North and South reunited after the war. Rev. Patrick Healy, known as the school's second founder, obtained university status for Georgetown and transformed the physical campus by constructing the massive Romanesque building that now bears his name. The 20th century brought about further development to the campus curriculum, and cultural programs, while facility, staff, and supporters from all backgrounds and races joined the Georgetown experience.
Southwest Washington, D.C. Southwest Washington, D.C. is a defined neighborhood even without a proper name, but the quadrant has a clear border southwest of the U.S. Capitol Building, nestled along the oldest waterfront in the city. Its physical delineations have defined it as a community for more than 250 years, beginning in the mid-1700s with emerging farms. By the mid-1800s, a thriving urban, residential, and commercial neighborhood was supported by the waterfront where Washingtonians bought seafood and produce right off the boats. In the 1920s and 1930s, an aging housing stock and an overcrowded city led to an increase of African-American and Jewish immigrants who became self sufficient within their own communities. However, political pressures and radical urban planning concepts in the 1950s led to the large-scale razing of most of SW, creating a new community with what was then innovative apartment and cooperative living constructed with such unusual building materials as aluminum. Images of America: Southwest Washington, D.C. , includes nearly 200 vintage images that document this dramatic change. Archival etchings, maps, and photographs combine to illustrate early settlers, the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators at the U.S. Penitentiary, the famous slavery escape on the schooner Pearl , a thriving African American community, and the widespread urban renewal that demolished most of its physical history and the innovative buildings that replaced it.
Images of America: Capitol Hill Capitol Hill celebrates one of the largest historic districts in the nation and a neighborhood rich in history that shaped a nation and the world. Beginning as a port area on the high plateau near the deep waters of the Anacostia River, Capitol Hill was largely shaped by the early residential development near the Navy Yard. Later home to middle class workers in the late 19th century, Capitol Hill is now one of Washington's most elite neighborhoods. While the name of the current neighborhood derives its name from the proximity to the United States Capitol, it is actually is not located on a hill. Situated on the highest point of land between the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, Capitol Hill began as a small cluster of homes located at First and Second streets along New Jersey Avenue, S.E. around 1800. Few Congressmen preferred to establish permanent residence in the city during the early years of the Republic and choose instead to rent rooms in one of the numerous boarding houses located within walking distance of the Capitol. The neighborhood also was home to hospitals and boarding houses during the Civil War. The area now known as the Capitol Hill Historic District was
primarily built up in the 1880s and 1890s for speculative housing
on a more modest scale, but now the neighborhood is primarily
an elite neighborhood with more senators and congressmen residing
there than any other neighborhood. This volume contains more than
200 images of these prominent homes and noteworthy points of national
interest, including Union Station, the Navy Yard, Eastern Market
and the B&O Railroad Co.
Images of America: Logan, Scott & Thomas Circles Following their use as the site of hangman's gallows for Civil War traitors, all three circles evolved into lush parks surrounding by the elegant, Victorian-era homes that housed nearly all of the nation's elite by the 1890s. Prior to the turn of the twentieth century, these neighborhoods were home to Washington's most influential citizens - pioneers and politicians, generals and industrialists - and, in the 1930s, to well-known leaders of the city's African American community, such as Mary McCloud Bethune and Bishop Charles M. "Sweet Daddy" Grace. Logan Circle survives much as it was today, but many readers will not recognize the early homes, now long gone, that once surrounded Scott and Thomas Circles and have since been replaced by office buildings, hotels, and commercial establishments. Fortunately, a compelling visual record of the development of Logan, Scott and Thomas Circles remains.
Images of America: Dupont Circle The photographic history of DuPont Circle will document the past cultural, social, and architectural entities of this rich and diverse neighborhood. Beginning with large estates that covered hundreds of acres in the 1850s, the area that is Du Pont Circle today slowly developed into an urban neighborhood after use as a Civil War encampment. Splendid photographs exist of this time period, as well as images taken as blocks developed in the 1890s, sometimes as builders built 30 houses at one time. Du Pont Circle reached its social zenith in the early 1900s, with mansions surrounding the circle hosting lavish parties attended by Diplomats, Presidents, and socialites. Notable events such as Charles Lindbergh's documented balcony address and political rallies in the circle will add cultural interest to the architectural and social focus of the book. World War Two images of the former mansions being used as rooming houses will bring the reader into the mid 20th century, and finish chronologically with the early 1960s gathering of gay activists who began the restoration of the neighborhood.
Images of America: Greater U Street Located at the very edge of the 1792 original city plan by city designer Pierre L'Enfant, the Greater U Street neighborhood of today served for nearly 70 years as orchards and grazing land for animals. However, with the settlement of Camp Campbell during the Civil War at where 6th and U Street is located today, the area quickly became home to thousands of fighting soldiers and then freed men and women. From this wartime beginning, thousands stayed in the area and began to construct small wood frame homes, churches, and businesses that eventually gave way to the elegant rows of substantial brick townhomes lining the surrounding street today. However, with racial segregation increasing, the Greater U Street neighborhood became a "City within a City" for the African American community beginning in the 1910s, and lasting up to the urban riots of 1968. During the heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, the area thrived with world renowned entertainment venues such as the Howard, Dunbar, Republic, and Lincoln Theaters and private clubs like Bohemian Caverns hosting entertainers that included Sarah Vaughn, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the neighborhood's own Edward "Duke" Ellington. Known by many as the "Black Broadway," the neighborhood was unique in that many of its institutions such as Industrial Bank and True Reformers Hall were designed, financed, owned, and built utilizing the talents of emerging African American professionals like banker John Whitelaw and architect John A. Lankford.
Images of America: Woodley Park Woodley Park's history is full of continuous and dramatic change, beginning in 1797 when Francis Scott Key's uncle purchased a 250 acre wooded parcel and three years later built "Woodley," a house today owned by the Maret School. It wasn't until a century later, however, that the neighborhood was connected to Washington city by the "million dollar bridge" over Rock Creek Park that the area began to attract new residents escaping the heat of downtown and arriving in mass by electric trolley. Woodley Park contains numerous images of prominent homes built during the neighborhoods infancy, Mills along rock creek, the beginnings of the National Zoo, and construction pictures during the real estate boom of the 1920s, that include the prominent Woodley Park and Shoreham Hotels, built along with many of its houses by prolific Washington builder and Woodley Park resident Harry Wardman. Throughout its history, Woodley Park has been simultaneously called home by several U.S. Presidents, statesmen, diplomats, hotel visitors and the working class alike. See Reviews: Washington Blade; InTowner
Images of America: Cleveland Park co-author Kelton C. Higgins
Today, the neighborhood is a modern urban residential neighborhood with many fine examples of American architecture and urban planning concepts. Cleveland Park documents the cultural, social, environmental, and architectural evolution of the neighborhood, offering photographs from the opening of the famous art deco Uptown Theater and of the first strip mall in America, the Park and Shop. Combined with interior and exterior images from some of the celebrated apartment houses that remain and those of the now-demolished Bureau of Standards, this volume is certain to both delight and surprise the reader.
Images of America: Forest Hills Margery L. Elfin, Paul K. Williams, and the The Forest Hills Neighborhood Alliance
Arcadia Postcard Series: Owasco Lake (NY) with Charles N. Williams
Arcadia Postcard Series: Skaneateles Lake (NY) with Charles N. Williams
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