• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Politics of Circulation
• George Washington’s Romance: Plotting the Federal City, 1791–1800
• The Poetry of Internal Improvements: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman in Civil War Washington
• Models of National Domesticity
• A House United: Frederick Douglass’s Interracial Domesticity during Reconstruction
• Democracy’s Church: The Hay-Adams Houses during the Gilded Age
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
