Product Description: Dating back to the early nineteenth century up through America's bicentennial, hundreds of novels can be found where the District of Columbia serves as the locale. And after the era of Vietnam protests and Watergate, everyone--the Washington Post noted--seemed to be writing a Washington novel...read more

Covers children's fiction series from the 1890s to the 1950s, tracing the evolution of the juvenile fiction series (view table of contents)

Lists writings by and about American authors, from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War I, and includes Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane and others