Robert Pohl worked for many years as a computer programmer but recovered from that and became a full time stay-at-home dad. With his son now in school, he has expanded his horizons and become a self-taught historian. He has written books about his house as well as Emancipation in the District of Columbia. You can reach Robert at Robert[at]thehillishome.com
On Thursday, March 2, 1905, a young man from St. Louis found solace from the freezing weather that had gripped the nation’s capital in a local Turkish bath. The bath did not have its intended warming effects, but rather, he found himself seized by “severe chills,” enough that the attendants raised the alarm and had […]
When we last looked at the smallpox hospital in Reservation 13, the job of designing it had been transferred from an accused felon to a local draftsman. A few months later, the contract to build the hospital was given to Columbus Thomas of C. Thomas & Son. There were some delays in the project, partly […]
A few months ago, I began to write about the smallpox hospitals in Reservation 13. After writing about two of them, I found myself distracted by other shiny objects and failed to look into the third structure built there for this purpose. I was advised of this recently by a reader, and so here is […]
January 1 of this year was an important moment for all of us who are interested in the public domain: For the first time since 1998, works that had before been under copyright were now free to be republished, edited, and combined with other works. The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (variously known as the […]