Directory of 20th Century Resources

History of Washington, DC, in the 20th century.

Subcategories

Duke Ellington's Washington

http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc
The black community in Ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary.
Snapshots of a Washington Century

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm
Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos. From the Washington Post.
The Riots in Georgetown, 1905

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC34902297&id=356GcowzN0UC
Account of a strike and subsequent riots. Digitized full text (26 pages) of the original 1905 edition from Google Books.
Washington As It Was

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html
Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s, including views of commercial, residential, and government buildings, street scenes and neighborhoods.
Washington Century

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm
Series of 26 articles from the Washington Post looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the "government girls" of World War II to suburban development.

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