PROJECTS COMPLETED BY PROLOGUE DC HISTORIANS
Mara Cherkasky
This Place Has A Voice, Canal Park public art project, consulting historian,
http://www.thisplacehasavoice.info
The Hotel Harrington: A Witness to Washington DC's History Since 1914 (brochure,
2014)
An East-of-the-River View: Anacostia Heritage Trail (Cultural Tourism DC, 2014)
Remembering Georgetown's Streetcar Era: The O and P Streets Rehabilitation Project
(exhibit panels and booklet documenting the District Department of Transportation's
award-winning streetcar and pavement-preservation project, 2013)
The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia: the First 100 Years (exhibit
panels and PowerPoint presentations, 2013)
Historic Park View: A Walking Tour (booklet, Park View United Neighborhood
Coalition, 2012)
DC Neighborhood Heritage Trail booklets: Village in the City: Mount Pleasant Heritage
Trail (2006); Battleground to Community: Brightwood Heritage Trail (2008); A SelfReliant People: Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail (2009); Cultural Convergence:
Columbia Heights Heritage Trail (2009); Top of the Town: Tenleytown Heritage Trail
(2010); Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail (2011); Lift Every Voice:
Georgia Avenue/Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail (2011); Hub, Home, Heart: H Street NE
Heritage Trail (2012); and Make No Little Plans: Federal Triangle Heritage Trail (2012)
"Mount Pleasant," in Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in
the Nation's Capital (Kathryn Schneider Smith, editor, Johns Hopkins Press, 2010)
Mount Pleasant (book, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2007)
"Career Choices of Middle Class African American Women in the 1920s, 1930s, and
1940s," presented at Towson University Multidisciplinary Conference on the Scholarship
and Creativity of African Americans, Towson, MD (April 1998)
"For Sale to Colored: Racial Turnover on S Street, NW," Washington History, Winter
1996; also presented at Towson University Multidisciplinary Conference on the
Scholarship and Creativity of African Americans, Towson, MD (April 1997)
Sarah Shoenfeld
Worthy Ambition: LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail (2014)
A Fitting Tribute: Logan Circle Heritage Trail (2013)
Neighborhood history posts for Houses with Character: Life & Real Estate in DC,
http://www.houseswithcharacter.com (2013)
Oral histories for Smithsonian Institution Archives and DC Gardeners Oral History
Project (2013)
"From Emancipation to the March on Washington: The Growth of African American
Neighborhoods in Washington, DC," Black History Month Lecture for the Association of
American Medical Colleges (2013)
Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street Heritage Trail (2012)
Lift Every Voice: Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail (2011)
"Joseph Henry: A Life in Science" (2011)
(http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/joseph-henry)
"A History of Voting Rights in Washington, D.C." (Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,
2009)
Book reviews: The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of
Black Washington, D.C., by Audrey Elisa Kerr (H-DC, 2007, http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=13464); Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, by Nell
Irvin Painter (The New England Quarterly, December 1997)
"Applications and Admissions to the Home for Aged Colored Women in Boston,
Massachusetts, 1860-1887," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
(July 2001-January 2002)
"Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/, 2000)
Mary Belcher
The Archaeological Investigation of Walter C. Pierce Community Park and Vicinity,
2005-2012: Report to the Public, May 2013 (co-author with Mark Mack)
The Walter Pierce Park Archaeology Project website,
http://www.walterpierceparkcemeteries.org (established 2013, ongoing)
The Walter Pierce Park Cemeteries Burial Database, including names, ages, addresses
and other biographical data for more than 8,428 individuals (chief researcher, published
2013)
Washington Historical Studies Conference presentations on the Walter Pierce Park
Archaeology Project (2007, 2009); American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting 2007 panel presentation ("Revisiting the New York African Burial Ground
Project: Noting Articulations with the Research and Political Struggles"); DC
Preservation League 2009 Citywide Preservation Conference presentation ("Ensuring
Preservation for Publicly Owned Properties")
"John Quincy Adams in Slave-Holding Washington" (Washington Historical Studies
Conference presentation, 2012)
"Doubling Down on Freedom: Four Who Ran From Slavery to the Front Lines,"
(Washington Historical Studies Conference presentation, 2013)
"From Slavery to Freedom in Adams Morgan" walking tour guide (Smithsonian
Associates, 2009 and 2013; numerous Cultural Tourism DC WalkingTown tours);
organizer of regular public events, Walter Pierce Park (2005-ongoing)
District of Columbia Mayor's Excellence in Archaeology Award (awarded to the Walter
Pierce Park Archaeology Project team, 2007)
Nomination of Kalorama Park to the National Underground Railroad Network to
Freedom, National Park Service (2008, honoring the attempted 1861 escape of enslaved
Hortense Prout from John Little's farm)
Holt House Preservation Task Force, Kalorama Citizens Association (chair, 1998-present)