EXHIBIT 1
RICHARD STRINER
316 Gold Brush Way
Pasadena, MD 21122
H: (410) 437-3422
W: (410) 778-7885
PROFESSION:
Historian
Specialty in historic preservation, intellectual and cultural
history, political history, economic history, and
interdisciplinary studies.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION EXPERIENCE
Winner of Renchard Prize for Historic Preservation, awarded by
the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1993. Personal
profile in the Washington Post upon the occasion of the award,
Washington Post, March 7, 1993, F-1, F-6.
President, Art Deco Society of Washington, 1982-1992
Founder of a 400-member preservation and cultural society.
Activities included monthly meetings featuring lectures, films,
and performing-arts demonstrations related to the culture of the
1920s and 1930s, a newsletter praised by The Washington Post,
and preservation casework of national significance. Preservation
cases included a successful county-level effort to save a
National Register property, Greenbelt Center School, the
architectural centerpiece of the New Deal model town; a
successful landmark application to preserve the 1940 streamlined
Greyhound Bus Terminal of Washington —— a case featured in
Newsweek, on the front page of Preservation News, and as the
subject of a PBS television documentary —— and a proposed
historic district in Silver Spring, Maryland. This case
generated a $30,000 feasibility study, co-funded by the Maryland
Historical Trust and the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission to study public-sector economic incentives
to permit the blending of preservation with high-density
development in a central business district, and also a
successful National Register nomination for the 1938 Silver
Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center Complex.
(Determination of eligibility 6-30-88). In 1998, Montgomery
County, Maryland joined in a public-private partnership with a
private-sector developer, Foulger-Pratt, to preserve the
theatre-shopping center complex as part of a larger $321 million
town-center retail project. The Silver Theatre was restored and
leased to the American Film Institute. The entire project was
completed in 2004.
Books, articles, and lectures on historic preservation and
architectural history
Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of
Neighboring Cities (with Melissa F. Blair), Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2014.
Book Review, Washington from the Ground Up by James H.S.
McGregor, and AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.,
by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., The Weekly Standard, June 16, 2008,
35-36.
Book Review, Giving Preservation a History: Histories of
Historic Preservation in the United States, Max Page and Randall
Mason, eds., Journal of American History, December 2005, pp.
1015-1016.
Book Review, Buildings of the District of Columbia, by Pamela
Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, Journal of American History, Vol.
81, No. 4, March 1995, pp. 1850-1.
"Scholarship, Strategy, and Activism in Preserving the Recent
Past," in Preserving the Recent Past, Deborah Slaton and Rebecca
A. Shiffer, eds., Historic Preservation Education Foundation,
1995, pp.III-17 - III-21, reprinted in Historic Preservation
Forum, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Vol. 10, No. 1,
October 1995, pp. 26-33..
"Historic Preservation and the Challenge of Ethical Coherence,"
in Ethics in Preservation: Lectures Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the National Council for Preservation Education,
October 23, 1993, National Council for Preservation Education,
1995, pp.2-13.
Art Deco (New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1994), 96
pp.
"Preservation and the Recent Past," National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Information series booklet # 69, 1993.
"Should These Buildings Be Saved? —— A Cultural Historian's
View," Washington College Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 1, Fall 1990,
pp. 10-15.
"Art Deco: Polemics and Synthesis," Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.
25, No. 1, Spring 1990, pp. 21-34.
"The Fate of the Silver Theatre," The 1989 Annual of the Theatre
Historical Society of America, No. 16, Jane Preddy, ed.,
pp. 34-40.
"20th-Century Pioneers: Public Building in the New Deal Era," in
The North Dakota State Capitol: Architecture and History, Larry
Remele, ed., State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1989.
Book Review, Best Addresses, by James M. Goode, in Washington
Works: Reviews of Recent Literature, Center for Washington Area
Studies, George Washington University, No. 17, Spring 1989, p.
1.
"Welcome Back, Union Station," Museum and Arts Washington,
Sept/Oct 1988, pp.37-40, reprinted in The Washington Post
("Outlook" section), September 4, 1988.
"Echo Deco," Museum and Arts Washington, March/April, 1987,
pp. 17-19.
Washington Deco: Art Deco in the Nation's Capital (with Hans
Wirz), Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. This book received
two highly favorable reviews in The Washington Post.
"Art Deco in the Nation's Capital," Design Action, Vol. 3, No.
2, 1984, pp. 1-3.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Maryland 1982
M.A. University of Maryland 1975
B.A. The American University, Cum Laude, 1972
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
Professor of History, Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
1988-2020.
Senior Writer (Part Time) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Commission, 2002-2016.
Part-Time Writer/Editor, U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, 2000-
2002.
Chief Historian, U.S. Capitol Historical Society, 1981-1987.
Adjunct Professor, History Department, The American University,
1981-1984.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department, Washington
College, Chestertown, Md., 1980.
Assistant Instructor, University of Maryland (University College
Program), 1979-1982.
Archives Technician, National Archives and Records Service,
1978.
Summer Intern, National Endowment for the Arts, 1975.
CIVIC AND PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP:
Member, The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., 2001-2018.
Peer Reviewer/Grant Proposal Referee, National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, 2007.
Historical Consultant, National World War II Memorial Committee,
American Battle Monuments Commission, 2001.
Journal Referee, William & Mary Quarterly, 2001.
Journal Referee, American Quarterly, 1996.
Member, Committee on Publications, Maryland Historical Society,
1995-2000.
Member, National Council for Preservation Education, 1992-1999.
Member, Committee of 100 on the Federal City, 1988-2001; Chair,
Nominating Committee for Board of Trustees, 1992
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, Washington, D.C., 1986-1988.
Elected member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (A.N.C.) 2-A,
in the Foggy Bottom/West End community. Advisory Neighborhood
Commissions were established in the District of Columbia Charter
to provide a channel for citizen comment on proposals affecting
residents and neighborhoods.
PUBLICATIONS
Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln,
forthcoming in 2020 from Rowman & Littlefield.
No Size Fits All: A New Program of Choice for American Public
Schools without Vouchers, co-authored with L. Michelle Johnson,
forthcoming in January 2020 from Anthem Press.
“Is Trump the Worst President in History?” History News
Network, July 28, 2019, http://www.hnn.us/article/172612.
Book review, Redeeming the Great Emancipator, by Allen C.
Guelzo, Presidential Studies Quarterly, July 1, 2019.
“When Did the GOP Move to the Dark Side?” History News Network,
December 9, 2018, http://www.hnn.us/article/170529.
Hard Times: Economic Depressions in America, Rowman &
Littlefield, 2018.
“Trump is Mentally Ill,” History News Network, January 21, 2018,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168032.
Book review, Your Friend Forever: The Enduring Friendship of
Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, by Charles Strozier, Civil War
Book Review, Winter 2017,
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3080&
context=cwbr
Article series: “America in Crisis,” History News Network. Part
One: “Our Grotesque Predicament,” June 19, 2017,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166176. Part Two: “Is a
Second Civil War in the Making?” June 25, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166239. Part Three:
“Donald Trump ascribes to his Victims what he does to Them.”
July 2, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166289.
Part Four: “Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of our Government
could lead to our Undoing.” July 9, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166347. Part Five: “Both
Parties have forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression,” July
16 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166414. Part
Six: “How will we get out of this Mess?” July 23, 2017,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166448.
Book review, Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American
Constitutionalism, by Timothy S. Huebner, The Weekly Standard,
June 26, 2017, 36-37.
Book review, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other
Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union, by
Daniel W. Crofts, American Historical Review, June 2017,
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/122/3/850/3862847/Daniel-W-
Crofts-Lincoln-and-the-Politics-of?guestAccessKey=a72c24f5-7ceb-
45fd-b77c-73257a9e9161.
“A Brief History of Secession,” The American Scholar, Spring
2017, 20-29 (cover story).
Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion At The Movies,
Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2016.
“What Lincoln Means To Me —— And Not Necessarily To Others,”
Lincoln Lore, Number 1909, Summer 2015, 11-14.
“What Libertarianism Means Today,” History News Network (HNN),
part three of a series, July 19, 2015,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159760
“When Libertarianism Became An Excuse For Plutocrats,” History
News Network (HNN), part two of a series, July 6, 2015,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159759
“This Is Where Libertarianism Gets Its Ideas From,” History News
Network (HNN), part one of a series, June 29, 2015,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159758
How America Can Spend Its Way Back To Greatness: A Guide to
Monetary Reform, Praeger, 2015.
“Lincoln and the Struggle to End Slavery,” in Exploring Lincoln:
Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President, Fordham
University Press, 2015.
“The Surprising Evidence that Woodrow Wilson was Suffering from
a Brain Malfunction before the Stroke that Crippled Him,”
History News Network (HNN), June 15, 2014,
http://www.hnn.us/article/155787.
“Woodrow Wilson’s Blunders as a Wartime President,” History News
Network (HNN), June 8, 2014, http://www.hnn.us/article/155786.
“Woodrow Wilson’s Four Mistakes in the Early Years of World War
I,” History News Network (HNN), June 1, 2014,
http://www.hnn.us/article/155810.
Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear,
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of
Neighboring Cities (with Melissa F. Blair), Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2014.
Book review, The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression:
Shirley Temple and 1930s America, by John F. Kasson, The Weekly
Standard, March 31, 2014.
Book review, Lincoln and Leadership, edited by Randall M.
Miller, The Journal of Southern History, February 2014, 194-195.
“The Radicalism of Lincoln’s Ten Per Cent Plan,” New York Times,
“Disunion” series, December 13, 2013,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/the-radicalism-
of-Lincolns-10-percent-plan/
“Is There Intelligent Life Among Republicans?” History News
Network (HNN), October 21, 2013, http://hnn.us/article/153662
“How To Fix Congress? The States Should Propose a New
Constitutional Convention,” History News Network (HNN), October
14, 2013, http://hnn.us/article/153576
“Can American Conservatism Be Salvaged?” History News Network
(HNN), March 18, 2013, http://hnn.us/articles/can-american-
conservatism-be-salvaged
“Hurrah for Old Abe,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, January
29, 2013,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/hurrah-for-old-
abe/
“Lincoln’s Great Gamble,” New York Times, “Disunion” series,
September 21, 2012,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/lincolns-great-
gamble/
“Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Customer Service?”
History News Network (HNN), August 6, 2012,
http://hnn.us/articles/whatever-happened-good-old-fashioned-
customer-service
“Too Many Monsters in Our Closet,” History News Network (HNN),
July 30, 2012, http://hnn.us/articles/too-many-monsters-our-
closet
“Lincoln’s Plan Emerges,” New York Times, “Disunion” series,
July 23, 2012,
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/lincolns-plan-emerges/
“Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction?”
History News Network (HNN), May 14, 2012,
http://hnn.us/articles/was-economic-miracle-world-war-ii-fact-
or-fiction
“Lincoln’s Abolitionist Wedge,” New York Times, “Disunion”
series, April 11, 2012,
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/.../11/lincolns-abolitionist-
wedge/
“Abraham Lincoln’s Audacious Plan,” New York Times, “Disunion”
series, January 5, 2012,
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/.../abraham-lincolns-audacious-
plan/
Lincoln and Race, Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
“How To Pay For What We Need,” The American Scholar (cover
article), Winter 2012, 32-41.
Book review, Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the
Fight to Save the American Republic, by Robert J. Cook, American
Historical Review, December 2011, 1498-1499.
“Lincoln and Race: The Historiography,” Lincoln Lore, Fall 2011,
12-16.
“Why the Left Needs its Koch Brothers,” History News Network
(HNN), August 21, 2011, http://hnn.us/articles/141321.html.
“Time for the Jobless to March on Washington,” CNN.COM, August
20, 2011,
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/20/striner.joblessness.march/
index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Book Review, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, by John D.
Kasarda and Greg Lindsay, The Weekly Standard, June 13, 2011,
34-35.
“Lincoln’s Threat to the Supreme Court,” New York Times
“Disunion” series, March 3, 2011,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/lincoln-addresses-the-
nation/
Supernatural Romance in Film: Tales of Love, Death, and the
Afterlife, McFarland & Company, 2011. Reviewed in The Weekly
Standard.
“Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly’s America,” chapter
in Lincoln’s Enduring Legacy, Robert P. Watson, William D.
Pederson, Frank J. Williams, eds., Lexington Books, 2011, 165-
177.
“How Lincoln Undid the Union,” New York Times “Disunion” series,
December 13, 2010,
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/richard-striner/.
Book Review, Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, by
Jeffrey Spivak, The Weekly Standard, December 6, 2010, 32-33.
“The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,” History News Network (HNN),
October 11, 2010, http://hnn.us/articles/132201.html
Lincoln’s Way: How Six Great Presidents Created American Power,
Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. Reviewed by Publishers Weekly,
Library Journal, and History Book Club.
Book Review, The Model T Ford: A Centennial History, by Robert
Casey, The Weekly Standard, December 8, 2008, 42-42.
"How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess," History News Network
(HNN), December 1, 2008, http://hnn.us/articles/57568.html
"Abraham Lincoln and the Anti-Slavery Movement," commissioned
chapter in Lincoln's America, Sara Gabbard and Joseph Fornieri,
eds., (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008),
151-168.
Book Review, Washington from the Ground Up by James H.S.
McGregor, and AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.,
by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., The Weekly Standard, June 16, 2008,
35-36.
Book Review, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War
Centennial, by Robert J. Cook, Journal of American History,
March 2008, 1317-1318.
"Lincoln, Race, and Moral Strategy," Lincoln Lore, Winter 2008,
6-11.
Book Review, Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the
Politics of Race, Brian R. Dirck, ed., American Historical
Review, December 2007, 1541.
Book Review, The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, by
Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams,
American Studies, Fall/Winter 2006, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, 210-211.
“Wartime Leadership: The First Republican President Versus the
Latest,” History News Network (HNN), March 13, 2006.
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery,
Oxford University Press, 2006. Reviewed in American Historical
Review, Reviews in American History, Publishers Weekly, The
Weekly Standard, Lincoln Lore, Civil War Book Review.
Book Review, Giving Preservation a History: Histories of
Historic Preservation in the United States, Max Page and Randall
Mason, eds., Journal of American History, December 2005, pp.
1015-1016.
Book Review, Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of
the American Civil War, Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish,
eds., Journal of Illinois History, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2004,
pp. 166-167.
Book Review, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War
Washington, by Daniel Mark Epstein, History: Reviews of New
Books, Vol. 32, No. 4, Summer 2004, p. 139.
“Money In, Money Out: Deficit Spending Made Us Rich and the
Concept Can Do So Again,” Orlando Sentinel, December 2, 2001.
Book Review, A Pragmatist’s Progress? Richard Rorty and
American Intellectual History, John Pettegrew, ed., History:
Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 1, Fall 2000, pp. 4-5.
Book Review, The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from
World War I to the Cold War, by Brett Gary, History: Reviews of
New Books, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 53-4.
“Back When a Bully Pulpit Made Better Government,” The Orlando
Sentinel, March 26, 2000, pp. G-1, G-5.
The Civic Deal: Re-Empowering Our Great Republic, (Washington,
D.C.: The Pericles Institute, 2000).
“When Will This Age of Aggressive Tawdriness End?" The Baltimore
Sun, September 18, 1998, p. 21-A. Featured by the Los Angeles
Times wire service, this article was re-published in several
other newspapers.
"What Do We Want From Uncle Sam?" The Baltimore Sun, July 2,
1998, p.21-A.
Book Review, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life,
by Paul C. Nagel, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 93, No. 1,
Spring 1998, pp.107-109.
Book Review, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson,
by Joseph J. Ellis, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 92, No.
2, Summer 1997, pp. 238-40.
"Debt Has Made Us Prosperous," The Washington Post ("Outlook"
Section), April 20, 1997, p. C-3. This article was re-published
by the Post (under the title "Uncle Sam's Red Ink: A Deficit's
Not Always Bad —— It's How We Pay for Prosperity") as the lead
article for its National Weekly Edition cover story of April 28,
1997, pp. 6-7.
Book Review, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American
Memory, by Mike Wallace, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol.91,
No. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 499-502.
Book Review, Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, by
John Keegan, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 3, Fall
1996, pp. 368-70.
Book Review, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the
Founding of the Federal Republic, by Lance Banning, History:
Reviews of New Books, Vol. 25, No. 1, Fall 1996, p. 5.
Book Review, If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless
Empire of Reason, by Richard K. Matthews, History: Reviews of
New Books, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 1995, pp. 5-6.
"Political Newtonianism: The Cosmic Model of Politics in Europe
and America," William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Vol. LII,
No. 4, October 1995, pp. 583-608.
Book Review, Buildings of the District of Columbia, by Pamela
Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, Journal of American History, Vol.
81, No. 4, March 1995, pp. 1850-1.
"Scholarship, Strategy, and Activism in Preserving the Recent
Past," in Preserving the Recent Past, Deborah Slaton and Rebecca
A. Shiffer, eds., Historic Preservation Education Foundation,
1995, pp.III-17 - III-21, reprinted in Historic Preservation
Forum, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Vol. 10, No. 1,
October 1995, pp. 26-33..
"Historic Preservation and the Challenge of Ethical Coherence,"
in Ethics in Preservation: Lectures Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the National Council for Preservation Education,
October 23, 1993, National Council for Preservation Education,
1995, pp.2-13.
Art Deco (New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1994), 96
pp.
Book Review, The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later, Charles
W. Eagles, ed., North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. LXX, No.
3, July 1993, p. 335.
"Preservation and the Recent Past," National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Information series booklet # 69, 1993.
"The End of Tribal Politics?" The Evening Sun (Baltimore),
December 9, l992, p. l5A. Featured by the Los Angeles Times
wire service, this article was re-published in at least a half
dozen other newspapers nationwide.
"Reviving the Legacy of Lincoln and the Two Roosevelts," Aspen
Institute Quarterly, Summer 1992, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 81-97.
Book Review, Alexander Pope: A Literary Life, by Felicity
Rosslyn, The Scriblerian, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Autumn 199l, pp. 49-
51.
"The Committee of l00 on the Federal City: Its History and Its
Service to the Nation's Capital," Committee of 100, 1991.
"Should These Buildings Be Saved? —— A Cultural Historian's
View," Washington College Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 1, Fall 1990,
pp. 10-15.
"Art Deco: Polemics and Synthesis," Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.
25, No. 1, Spring 1990, pp. 21-34.
"Reflections on the Work of Historic Preservation in Washington,
D.C.," Art Deco Society of Washington, 1990.
Book Review, Cowtown Moderne, by Judith Singer Cohen, Winterthur
Portfolio, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 1989, pp. 297-299.
"The Fate of the Silver Theatre," The 1989 Annual of the Theatre
Historical Society of America, No. 16, Jane Preddy, ed.,
pp. 34-40.
"The Inverted World: Cosmic Visions in the Poetry of Pope,"
C.E.A. Critic (College English Association), Vol. 51 (Summer
1989), No. 4, pp. 11-30.
Introduction to Mostly Moderne, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, 1989.
"20th-Century Pioneers: Public Building in the New Deal Era," in
The North Dakota State Capitol: Architecture and History, Larry
Remele, ed., State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1989.
Book Review, Best Addresses, by James M. Goode, in Washington
Works: Reviews of Recent Literature, Center for Washington Area
Studies, George Washington University, No. 17, Spring 1989, p.
1.
"Welcome Back, Union Station," Museum and Arts Washington,
Sept/Oct 1988, pp.37-40, reprinted in The Washington Post
("Outlook" section), September 4, 1988.
"Echo Deco," Museum and Arts Washington, March/April, 1987,
pp. 17-19.
"Terminal Cases: How Do You Save An Important Building In This
Town?" The Washington Post ("Outlook" section), February 8,
1987, C-8.
"Can Conservatism Survive Laissez-Faire?" American Politics,
Vol. 1, No. 11, December, 1986, pp. 19-21.
"Whatever Became of Noblesse Oblige? Conservative Reasons for
Not Ending Big Government," The Washington Post ("Outlook"
section), August 31, 1986, p.D-2
Washington Deco: Art Deco in the Nation's Capital (with Hans
Wirz), Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. This book received
two highly favorable reviews in The Washington Post.
"Art Deco in the Nation's Capital," Design Action, Vol. 3, No.
2, 1984, pp. 1-3.
"Machine-Dance: An Intellectual Sidelight to Busby Berkeley's
Career," The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 7, Nos. 1 & 2,
Spring/Summer, 1984, pp. 59-68.
Washington, Past and Present (with Donald Kennon) 1983, U.S.
Capitol Historical Society.
"Defining Art Deco," Art Deco News, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 1983,
Art Deco Society of New York.
OTHER ACADEMIC WRITING:
The Machine as Symbol: 1920- 1939, Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Maryland, 1982.
Depression Daydreams, M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1975.
PAPERS, PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND CONSULTING
Radio interview, the Mid-Day Show with Dan Rodricks, June 30,
2015, “Historian Richard Striner On President Obama’s Legacy,”
accessible via http://wypr.org/post/historian-richard-striner-
president-obamas-legacy
Panel Presentation, “Centennial of the Lusitania Sinking,” May
7, 2015, National Press Club, filmed by C-SPAN, accessible via
http://www.c-span.org/person/?richardstriner
Letitia Brown Woods Lecturer, keynote address for the 41st Annual
Conference on D.C. Historical Studies, sponsored by the
Historical Society of Washington, D.C., November 20, 2014.
Book discussion on Woodrow Wilson and World War I, November 18,
2014, National Press Club Book Fair, filmed by C-SPAN,
accessible via http://www.c-span.org/person/?richardstriner
“Lincoln the Strategist,” delivered to the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, Arlington, Va., February 11,
2014.
Radio interview on the Gettysburg Address, the Mid-Day Show with
Dan Rodricks, WYPR-FM, Baltimore, November 19, 2013.
Presentation on Lincoln and Race at the Lincoln Forum,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 18, 2013.
Regular contributor, “The Week In Review,” WYPR-FM, Baltimore,
2013-2014.
Radio interview, “Talk of the Nation” with Neal Conan, NPR,
September 24, 2012.
Author Talk and Book Signing, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential
Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York, February 18, 2012.
Radio interviews, the Mid-Day Show with Dan Rodricks, WYPR-FM,
Baltimore, November 16, 2010, February 3, 2011, October 31,
2011, January 3, 2012.
“Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America,”
delivered at conference on "Abraham Lincoln Without Borders,"
sponsored by Lincoln International Center for American Studies,
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, October 22, 2009.
Panel Commentator, "Lincoln in the Antebellum Decade," Society
for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Thirty
First Annual Meeting, Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 2009.
"Lincoln and the Struggle to End Slavery," invited lecture
delivered at the 11th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium, Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, November 17, 2006.
"What I Learned When I Wrote Father Abraham," invited lecture
delivered to the Lincoln Group of Washington, D.C. at the Fort
McNair Officers' Club, April 18, 2006.
"Lincoln, Race, and Moral Strategy," invited lecture delivered
at the following times and locations:
September 29, 2004, at the National Archives, Washington, D.C.
March 7, 2006 at Cooper Union, New York City.
March 25, 2006 at the 9th Annual Symposium of the Abraham
Lincoln Institute at the National Archives facility in College
Park, Maryland.
Radio interviews regarding my book Father Abraham: Lincoln's
Relentless Struggle to End Slavery: WKRC-AM (Cincinnati),
February 13, 2006; WELW-USA network (Cleveland), February 20,
2006; KUER-FM, RadioWest (Salt Lake City), February 20, 2006.
Radio appearances as public affairs commentator on NPR program
“The Marc Steiner Show,” WJHU (now WYPR), 88.1 FM, Baltimore,
June 20, 2000, October 12 and 18, 2000, November 8, 9, and 22,
2000, January 4, 2001, September 20 and October 3, 2001, June
12, 2002.
"Determining Historic Significance: Mind Over Matter?" Invited
paper delivered at conference on "Preservation: Of What? For
Whom?" co-sponsored by the National Council for Preservation
Education, the National Park Service, and the Center for
Graduate and Continuing Studies, Goucher College, March 22,
1997, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Scholarship, Strategy, and Activism in Preserving the Recent
Past," invited paper delivered at conference on "Preserving the
Recent Past," co-sponsored by the National Park Service and a
consortium of non-profit historic preservation organizations,
March 30, 1995, Chicago, Illinois.
"Historic Preservation and the Challenge of Ethical Coherence,"
invited paper delivered at the annual conference of the National
Council for Preservation Education, Indianapolis, October 23,
1993.
Historical Consultant for restoration of Greenbelt Center
School, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1992.
"Reflections on the Work of Historic Preservation in Washington,
D.C.," invited paper delivered at Art Deco Symposium, Miami
Design Preservation League, Miami Beach, Florida, January 9,
1992.
Historical Consultant for permanent exhibit in restored 1940
Greyhound Terminal, Wasington, D.C., 1989-90.
"Art Deco: Polemics and Synthesis," invited paper (work in
progress), Latrobe Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians,
Washington, D.C., April 18, 1989.
"Paul Manship: Modernized Classicism and the Art Deco Milieu,"
invited paper delivered at the National Museum of American Art,
Washington, D.C., March 19, 1989.
Panel Commentator, "The Architecture of Transportation,"
Sixteenth Annual Conference on Washington, D.C. Historical
Studies, co-sponsored by Columbia Historical Society and George
Washington University, March 4, 1989.
"Art Deco and Architectural Polemics," invited paper delivered
at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Aesthetics, Kansas City, Missouri, October 31, 1987.
"20th-Century Pioneers: Public Building in the New Deal Era,"
invited paper delivered for the State Historical Society of
North Dakota at the North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck,
North Dakota, October 18, 1987.
Member, local advisory committee for the 41st National
Preservation Conference, sponsored by the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, October 1987.
Member, academic advisory committee for "The Greenbelt
Conference on New Towns," May 1-3, 1987, sponsored by the city
of Greenbelt, Md.
"The Architecture of Greenbelt," delivered at the Greenbelt
Conference on New Towns (above), May 2, 1987.
Historical Consultant for public television program entitled
"The New Towns," produced by WETA, Channel 26, Washington, D.C.,
May 1, 1987.
Co-host and guide for bus tour entitled "Built in Washington:
Public Buildings of the Roosevelt Era," sponsored by the
National Building Museum, May 3, 1986.
Member, professional resource panel, Greenbelt Commercial Center
restoration and design charette, Greenbelt, Md., February 22,
1986.
Panel commentator, "Architecture and Planning in the 1930s,"
Thirteenth Annual Conference on Washington, D.C. Historical
Studies, co-sponsored by Columbia Historical Society and the
Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1986.
Co-organizer of symposium entitled "Art Deco Commercial
Architecture," November 16, 1985, sponsored by the Society for
Commercial Archaeology and the Art Deco Society of Washington.
"Suburban Preservation: The Case of Silver Spring, Maryland,"
delivered at symposium on "Art Deco Commercial Architecture"
(above), November 16, 1985.
Panel participant, "The Politics of Preservation," 15th Annual
Maryland Preservation Conference, sponsored by Maryland
Historical Trust, Annapolis, Maryland, November 2, 1985.
Moderator, "Art Deco America," five-part lecture series
sponsored by Smithsonian Resident Associates, October-November,
1985.
"Art Deco: Mediational Design for the Inter-War Decades,"
invited paper delivered at symposium entitled "A New Perspective
on Art Deco," directed by Richard Guy Wilson and sponsored by
the Art Deco Society of New York and the New School for Social
Research, September 28, 1985.
"Defining Art Deco," at the New School for Social Research,
February 6, 1985.
Walking Tour of Historic Greenbelt, Maryland, October 28, 1984,
for Annual Meeting of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
"Machine-Symbols in American Dance and Film," March 26, 1985 at
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History,
lecture-series "Life and Culture in the 1930s," co-sponsored by
George Mason University.
Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, December 4 and 11,
1983, lecture/tours of Art Deco buildings in Washington.
"Art Deco in Washington": Lecture and slide show delivered at
the following times and locations:
November 15, 1985 at the Lyceum, Alexandria, Virginia
February 4, 1985 at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.
November 10, 1983 at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington
D.C. office
October 18, 1983 at The National Archives
October 18, 1983 at the Greenbelt Historical Society,
Greenbelt, Md.
September 10, 1983 at the Prince George's County Historical
Society, Riverdale, Md.
June 1981 at the Columbia Historical Society, Washington,
D.C.
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DOCUMENTS REVIEWED OR RELIED UPON
1. DC Preservation Act
2. DC Preservation Regulations
3. Complaint and Exhibits thereto
4. Documents produced by the District of Columbia (some of which are specifically listed below)
5. Private Act Chapter 56, “An Act To Incorporate the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States,” March 13, 1896 (Complaint Ex. 5)
6. Private Law 92-23
7. Property Study (DupEast 0001 et seq.)
8. National Register Nomination Form for the Sixteenth Street Historic District
9. “Additional Information on Historic Property Boundaries” (DupEast 56-72)
10. “Additional Information on Historic Property Boundaries” (DupEast 48-55)
11. HPO Report for the November 29, 2018 Hearing
12. Transcript of the November 29, 2018 Hearing
13. Draft of April 30, 2019 HPO Report (DupEast 42-47)
14. HPO Report issued for the November 29, 2018 hearing
15. Perseus Application Package
16. HPO Report issued on or about April 30, 2019 (DupEast 569-574)
17. Submission dated May 6, 2019 to HPRB (DupEast 457-490)
18. HPO Report issued on or about May 10, 2019 (DupEast 575-580)
19. Analysis of Landmark Application No. 19-06 (Dup East 71-82)
20. Transcript of May 23, 2019 HPRB Hearing
21. HPRB Actions dated May 23, 2019
22. HPO Report for September 26, 2019 hearing case 19-497
23. HPRB Actions dated September 26, 2019
24. Decision of the HPRB (DupEast 560-565)
25. Declaration of Covenants re Alley Closing
26. District Responses to Plaintiffs’ First Set of Interrogatories
27. DECCA’s Responses to Districts First set of Interrogatories
28. National Bulletin: Defining Boundaries for National Register Properties
29. DC Inventory of Historic Sites
30. Various Mayor’s Agents Decision, including the Decision in the Williams-Addison House.
31. Transcript of the Deposition of Kim Williams dated December 18, 2019.
32. Exhibits to the Deposition of Kim Williams
33. Various depictions of the Tomb of Mausolus
34. Various scholarly work on Pope’s life
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Scottish Rite Temple Property Study
Scottish Rite Temple (2019)
Before Construction: 1909
Map 1: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1909)
During Construction: 1913
Map 2: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1913)
After Construction: 1919
Map 3: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1919)
Initial Land Expansion: 1920-21
Map 3: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1919)
Initial Land Expansion: 1920-21
Map 3: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1919)
1920
Initial Land Expansion: 1920-21
Map 3: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1919)
1920 1921
Demolition by 1932
Map 4: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1932)
Site Conditions: 1951
Aerial photo detail: Courtesy of Historic Aerials (1951)
Site Conditions: 1951
Aerial photo detail: Courtesy of Historic Aerials (1951)
garage rowhouse
Postwar Land Acquisition
Map 4: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1932)
1952
Postwar Land Acquisition
Map 4: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1932)
1952 1954
Postwar Land Acquisition
Map 4: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1932)
1952 1954 1963
Site Conditions: 1964
Aerial photo detail: Courtesy of Historic Aerials (1964)
Site Conditions: 1964
Aerial photo detail: Courtesy of Historic Aerials (1964) alleys
driveway
parking
Lot 29 house
tree
Landmarks of the National Capital: November 1964
Map 5: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1965)
Landmarks of the National Capital: November 1964
Map 5: Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 1, Plan 19 (1965)
Additional Land Acquisition
Map 6: D.C. Subdivision Book 157, page 24 (January 18, 1971)
Alley Closing: 1971
Map 6: D.C. Subdivision Book 157, page 24 (January 18, 1971)
New Assessment & Taxation (A&T) Lot: 1976
Map 7: D.C. Assessment & Taxation Book 3157, page 3632-G (July 30, 1976)
Sixteenth Street Historic District: 1977
Map 8: Joint Committee on Landmarks Draft Map (1977) Map 9: Joint Committee on Landmarks Final Map (June 17, 1977)
Sixteenth Street Historic District: 1977
Map 8: Joint Committee on Landmarks Draft Map (1977) Map 9: Joint Committee on Landmarks Final Map (June 17, 1977)
Sixteenth Street Historic District: 1977
Map 8: Joint Committee on Landmarks Draft Map (1977) Map 9: Joint Committee on Landmarks Final Map (June 17, 1977)
Land Acquisition and New A&T Lot: 1996
Map 10: D.C. Assessment & Taxation Book 42, page 3784-S (October 23, 1996)
Land Acquisition and New A&T Lot: 1996
Map 10: D.C. Assessment & Taxation Book 42, page 3784-S (October 23, 1996)
Land Acquisition and Alley Closing: 2011
Map 11: D.C. Subdivision Book 205, page 55 (February 10, 2011)
Land Acquisition and Alley Closing: 2011
Map 11: D.C. Subdivision Book 205, page 55 (February 10, 2011)
Current Record Lot: 2013
Map 12: D.C. Subdivision Book 207, page 188 (September 18, 2013)
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NATIONAL REGISTER
BULLETIN Technical information on the the National Register of Historic Places: survey, evaluation, registration, and preservation of cultural resources
U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Cultural Resources National Register, History and Education
DEFINING BOUNDARIES FOR
NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTIES
• Use: Consider the historic use ofthe property when selecting theboundary. The eligible resourcemay include open spaces, naturalland forms, designed landscapes,or natural resources that wereintegral to the property's historicuse. Modern use may be different,and some modern uses alter thesetting or affect built resources.The effect of such uses must beassessed in identifying resourcesthat retain integrity. For example,a Hopewell mound archeologicalsite now used as a golf course mayretain integrity where the form ofthe prehistoric earthworks has beenpreserved, but construction of sandtraps or other landscaping thataltered landforms would compromise integrity. A marsh thatprovides plant materials fortraditional basketmakers mayretain integrity where it remains inits natural wetland condition, butmay have lost integrity where ithas been drained and cultivated.
• Research Potential: For propertieseligible under Criterion D, defineboundaries that include all of theresources with integrity that havethe potential to yield importantinformation about the past. Suchinformation is defined in terms ofresearch questions to which theinformation pertains, and theproperty should include the components, features, buildings, orstructures that include the information. For example, an eligibleprehistoric longhouse site shouldinclude longhouse features as wellas associated pit features, middens,and hearths. Geographicallyseparate but historically associatedactivity areas may also be includedin the property even when they arenot adjacent to the main concentration of eligible resources. Forexample, lithic procurement andprocessing loci that were historically associated with a village sitebut geographically separated fromit may be included in a discontiguous district. Remember thatmany properties eligible underother criteria include contributingarcheological resources that mayyield important information aboutthe property. Consider the extentof associated archeological resources when selecting boundaries.
SELECTING
BOUNDARIES
Identify appropriate natural or cultural features that bound the eligible resource. Consider historical and cartographic documentation and subsurface testing results (for archeological resources) in addition to existing conditions. Some boundaries can be directly observed by examining the property; others must be identified on the basis of research. Take into account the modern legal boundaries, historic boundaries (identified in tax maps, deeds, or plats), natural features, cultural features, and the distribution of resources as determined by survey and testing for subsurface resources.
Owner objections may affect the listing of the entire property, but not the identification of the boundaries. If the sole private owner of a property or the majority of the private owners (for properties with multiple owners) objects to listing, the property (with boundaries based on an objective assessment of the full extent of the significant resources) may be determined eligible for the National Register but not listed.
Boundaries should include surrounding land that contributes to the significance of the resources by functioning as the setting. This setting is an integral part of the eligible property and should be identified when boundaries are selected. For example, do not limit the property to the footprint of the building, but include its yard or grounds; consider the extent of all positive subsurface test units as well as the landform that includes the archeological site; and include the portion of the reef on which the vessel foundered as well as the shipwreck itself.
• Distribution of Resources: Use theextent of above-ground resourcesand surrounding setting to definethe boundaries of the property. Forarcheological resources, considerthe extent of above-ground resources as well as the distributionof subsurface remains identifiedthrough testing when defining theboundaries of the property.
• Current Legal Boundaries: Use thelegal boundaries of a property asrecorded in the current tax map orplat accompanying the deed when
these boundaries encompass the eligible resource and are consistent with its historical significance and remaining integrity.
• Historic Boundaries: Use theboundaries shown on historic platsor land-ownership maps (such asfire insurance or real estate maps)when the limits of the eligibleresource do not correspond withcurrent legal parcels.
• Natural Features: Use a naturalfeature, such as a shoreline, terraceedge, treeline, or erosional scar,which corresponds with the limit ofthe eligible resource.
• Cultural Features: Use a culturalfeature, such a stone wall,hedgerow, roadway, or curb line,that is associated with the significance of the property, or use anarea of modern development ordisturbance that represents thelimit of the eligible resource.
Selecting boundaries for someproperties may be more complicated, however. Consider and use as many features or sources as necessary to define the limits of the eligible resource. In many cases, a combination of features may be most appropriate. For example, the National Register boundaries of a property could be defined by a road on the south, a fence line on the west, the limits of subsurface resources on the north, and an area of development disturbance on the east. Consider map features or reasonable limits when obvious boundaries are not appropriate.
• Cartographic Features: Use largescale topographic features, contourlines, or section lines on UnitedStates Geographical Survey mapsto define the boundaries of largesites or districts.
• Reasonable Limits: Use reasonablelimits in areas undefined by naturalor cultural features. For example,define the boundary of a propertyas 15 feet or 5 meters from the edgeof the known resources, or define astraight line connecting two otherboundary features. If a surveyedtopographic map is available, selecta contour line that encompassesthe eligible resources. Reasonablelimits may also be appropriate fora rural property when there is noobvious house lot or natural orcultural feature to use. Be sure thatan appropriate setting is included
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