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Discover Woman American History
soei D g American Democracy et. 07 How Women Shaped American Life and Culture Prepared by Susan Sullivan Lagon,Ph.D., Historian, The Jefferson, Washington, DC The Jefferson, Washington, DC • 1200 16th St. NW • Washington DC, 20036 1 The Jefferson, Washington, DC • 1200 16th St. NW • Washington DC, 20036 How Women Shaped American Life and Culture Prepared by Susan Sullivan Lagon, Ph.D., Historian, The Jefferson, Washington, DC John Adams, whose bust is opposite Thomas Jefferson’s in the lobby, was a faithful correspondent with his wife Abigail while she remained in Massachusetts. In a famous letter from Abigail to her husband on March 31, 1776, she wrote: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” Day One Walking Tour From the hotel, head south on 16th St. to Lafayette Square. The large building at H St. and Madison Place is Dolley Madison House. The stately home was built in 1820 by Congressman Richard Cutts who was married to Dolley Madison’s sister Anna. -
The Capitol Building
CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER TEACHERTEACHER LLESSONESSON PLANLAN The Capitol BuildiNg Introduction The Capitol is among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically important buildings in the world. The Senate and the House of Representatives have met here for more than two centuries. Begun in 1793, the Capitol has been built, burnt, rebuilt, extended, and restored; today, it stands as a monument not only to its builders but also to the American people and their government. As George Washington said, public buildings in the Capitol city “in size, form, and elegance, should look beyond the present day.”1 This activity features images of the U.S. Capitol building — architectural plans and artistic renderings from its original design and subsequent expansion. Examining these images, students engage in class discussion and individual reflection, considering how a building itself might serve as a symbol and monument. Then, they draft images that capture their own interpretation of how a Capitol building should look. While intended for 8th grade students, the lesson can be adapted for other grade levels. 1 The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor., Philadelphia, March 8, 1792. 1 TEACHER LESSON PLAN: THE CAPITOL BUILDING CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER TEACHER LESSON PLAN Estimated Time One to two class sessions National Standards National Standards for Civics and Government Content Standards, grades 5–8 II — What are the Foundations of the American Political System (D.1) United -
The Octagon House and Mount Airy: Exploring the Intersection of Slavery, Social Values, and Architecture in 19Th-Century Washington, DC and Virginia
W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2017 The Octagon House and Mount Airy: Exploring the Intersection of Slavery, Social Values, and Architecture in 19th-Century Washington, DC and Virginia Julianna Geralynn Jackson College of William and Mary, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Jackson, Julianna Geralynn, "The Octagon House and Mount Airy: Exploring the Intersection of Slavery, Social Values, and Architecture in 19th-Century Washington, DC and Virginia" (2017). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1516639577. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/S2V95T This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Octagon House and Mount Airy: Exploring the Intersection of Slavery, Social Values, and Architecture in 19th-Century Washington, DC and Virginia Julianna Geralynn Jackson Baldwin, Maryland Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2012 A Thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty of The College of William & Mary in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology College of William & Mary August, 2017 © Copyright by Julianna Geralynn Jackson 2017 ABSTRACT This project uses archaeology, architecture, and the documentary record to explore the ways in which one family, the Tayloes, used Georgian design principals as a way of exerting control over the 19th-century landscape. -
P.S.: You Had Better Remove the Records: Early Federal Archives
“P.S.: You had better remove the records” Early Federal Archives and the Burning of Washington during the War of 1812 By Jessie Kratz hen British troops began to advance toward And so clerks packed Wthe United States’ new capital of Wash such things as the books and ington in the summer of 1814, it was clear that papers of the State Department; government leaders had not prepared an adequate unpublished secret journals of defense for the city and its government buildings. Congress; George Washington’s The British navy already had control of nearby Chesa commission and correspondence; peake Bay and some 4,500 troops in the port town of the Articles of Confederation; papers Benedict, Maryland—poised for an attack on the capital. of the Continental Congress; and all the Despite the show of force, the secretary of war, treaties, laws, and correspondence dating John Armstrong, was convinced the British were back to 1789. more interested in the port of Baltimore than in Along with these early records, the clerks Washington, which then had only 8,200 residents. also bagged up the Charters of Freedom—the Secretary of State James Monroe felt differently collective term for the Declaration of Indepen and met with President James Madison to discuss dence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. the enemy’s intentions. Then Monroe himself rode And so these three documents began a long jour by horse, accompanied by cavalry, into southern ney as the War of 1812 raged. Maryland to scout the situation. The journey would not end until 1952, when Upon seeing the British advancing toward all three were placed together, side by side, in special Washington, Monroe dispatched a note to Presi encasements in the Rotunda of the National Archives dent Madison. -
Designing the White House: 1792 – 1830
Classroom Resource Packet Designing the White House: 1792 – 1830 INTRODUCTION As the president’s office and home, the White House stands as a symbol of American leadership. President George Washington selected the site and approved the final design, but he never had an opportunity to live in the building once known as the “President’s Palace.” When the initial construction was finished in 1800, John Adams became the first president to occupy this famous home. Explore the design and creation of the building from its inception, to the burning by the British in 1814, and the completion of the porticoes by 1830 that resulted in the White House’s iconic appearance. CONTEXTUAL ESSAY In 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which established a permanent national capital to be built on the Potomac River. President George Washington had the authority to pick the specific site of the capital city, and he selected engineer and architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant to begin planning the city streets inside a 10-mile square section of farmland (Image 1). Washington chose the spot for the President’s House, and L’Enfant set aside this space for what he called a “palace” for the president (Image 2). L’Enfant’s original plan for the President’s House was five times the size of the house which would be built, so “palace” seemed appropriate at the time. But for a new republic whose leaders would be ordinary citizens—not kings— the building was scaled back, and so was its name. It became known Image 2 as simply “The President’s House.” After George Washington dismissed L'Enfant for insubordination in early 1792, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson organized a design contest and announced a prize of five hundred dollars or a medal of that value for the best design of the President’s House. -
Building Stones of the National Mall
The Geological Society of America Field Guide 40 2015 Building stones of the National Mall Richard A. Livingston Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Carol A. Grissom Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USA Emily M. Aloiz John Milner Associates Preservation, 3200 Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22207, USA ABSTRACT This guide accompanies a walking tour of sites where masonry was employed on or near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It begins with an overview of the geological setting of the city and development of the Mall. Each federal monument or building on the tour is briefly described, followed by information about its exterior stonework. The focus is on masonry buildings of the Smithsonian Institution, which date from 1847 with the inception of construction for the Smithsonian Castle and continue up to completion of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004. The building stones on the tour are representative of the development of the Ameri can dimension stone industry with respect to geology, quarrying techniques, and style over more than two centuries. Details are provided for locally quarried stones used for the earliest buildings in the capital, including A quia Creek sandstone (U.S. Capitol and Patent Office Building), Seneca Red sandstone (Smithsonian Castle), Cockeysville Marble (Washington Monument), and Piedmont bedrock (lockkeeper's house). Fol lowing improvement in the transportation system, buildings and monuments were constructed with stones from other regions, including Shelburne Marble from Ver mont, Salem Limestone from Indiana, Holston Limestone from Tennessee, Kasota stone from Minnesota, and a variety of granites from several states. -
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington
JL, JLornclt ),//,.,on Wn*ooio/ memorial ACTION PUBLICATIONS Alexandria, Va. JL" llo*oo )"ff",.", TLln^o,io/ This great National Memorial to the aurhor of the Declaration of Indepen- dence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, First Secretary of State and Third President of the United States, possesses mlny of the qualities ascribed to the brilliant revolutionary leader in whose memory it has been dedicated by a grateful Nation It is magnificent-as Jefferson's chrracter was magnificent. Simple as his Democracy. Aesthetic as l.ris thoughts. Courageous as his chempion- ship of the righrs of man. The memorial structure is in itself a tribute to Jefferson's artistic tastes and preference and a mark of respect for his architectural and scientific achievements. A farmer by choice, a lawyer by profession, and an architect by avocation, JelTer- son \r,as awed by the remarkable beauty of design and noble proportions of the Pantheon in Rome and foilou,ed irs scheme in the major architectururl accom- plishments of his oq,n life Its inlluence is evident in his ovu'n home at Monticello and in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia at Cl.rarkrttesville, which he designed. The monumental portico complimenrs Jellerson's design for the Yir- ginia State Capitol at Richmond. h But it is not alone the architectural splendor or the beiruty of its settir,g ',irhich makes this memcrial one of the mosr revered American patriotic shrines. In it the American people find the spirit of the living Jefferson and the fervor which inspired their colonial forbears to break, by force of erms, the ties which bound them to tyrannical overlords; to achieve not only nltional independence. -
Adams and Jefferson : Personal Politics in the Early Republic
d ADAMS AND JEFFERSON: Personal Politics in the Early Republic John Connor The deterioration of the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson remains a controversial subject among his torians. The two men were once the best of friends, spending personal time with each other’s family, and enjoying a profes sional collaboration that would become famous—drafting the Declaration of Independence. Furthermore, they freely ac knowledged their mutual fondness. In 1784, Adams wrote that his colleague Thomas Jefferson was “an old friend with whom I have often had occasion to labor at many a knotty problem and in whose ability and steadiness I always found great cause to confide.”1 Jefferson wrote similar words of praise to his friend James Madison: “[Adams] is profound in his views, and accurate in his judgments. He is so amiable, that I pronounce you will love him if ever you become acquainted with him.”2 But despite this initial close friendship, by the 1790s Adams called Jefferson “weak, confused, uninformed, and ignorant.”3 At the same time, Jefferson called Adams actions as President “the most grotesque scene in the tragiccomedy of govern ment.”4 What led these two men who once worked so closely together to turn from close friends to bitter enemies in only ten years? How their friendship dissolved has been discussed by Stephen Kurtz, Stanley Elkins, and Eric McKitrick, who em 58 phasize certain events in the Adams Presidency as precise mo ments in which the two men parted ways.5 Noble Cunningham Jr., points to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Act and the creation of a Standing Army as the point at which the two men’s differences became irreconcilable.6 Recent scholarship by James Sharp argues that a dinner conversation held before Adams was even elected led to their disbanding.7 A second school of thought, led by Merrill Peterson, Dumas Malone, and John Ferling, links the divide not so much to a particular event but to the actions of a third party, often Alexander Hamilton. -
1 the Pilgrimage to Monticello
Notes 1 The Pilgrimage to Monticello 1. Cited by E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (London: Sphere Books, 1973/1962) p. 164. 2. The best account of the iconography of La Fayette's tour of the United States isS. J. Idzerda, A. C. Loveland, M. H. Miller, Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824-1825 (Hanover and London: the Queen's Museum, 1989). There is a sub stantial bibliography. There are good illustrations also in M. Klamkin, The Return of Lafayette 1824-1825 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975). Contemporary accounts are reprinted in E. E. Brandon, Lafayette, Guest of the Nation: a Contemporary Account of the Triumphal Tour of General Lafayette through the United States in 1824-1825, as Reported by the Local Newspapers, 3 vols (Oxford, Ohio: Oxford Historical Press, 1950-57). Also useful is J. B. Nolan, Lafayette in America Day by Day (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1934). I have drawn parti cularly on the contemporary newspaper (and other) material reprinted in 'General La Fayette's Visit to Monticello and the University' in The Virginia Uniz,ersity Magazine, IV, 3 (December, 1859) 113-25; Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825, translated from the French (2 vols, 1829), and Jane Blair, Cary Smith, 'The Carysbrook Memoir', Wilson Miles Cary Memorial Collection (University of Virgi nia Ac. No. 1378) pp. 55-62. These have been supplemented by the newspapers on file at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville. For analysis of the influence of La Fayette's tour on forming national consciousness in the USA, see F. -
Introduction
Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Harper's, 'Is there Virtue in Profit: Reconsidering the Morality of Capitalism', vol. 273 (December 1986 ), 38. 2. Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (New York, 1984), 25-50. 3. John M. McCusker & Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (Chapel Hill, 1985), 71. On the importance of overseas trade to individuals' income in the colonies see Alice Hansen Jones, Wealth of a Nation: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution (New York, 1980), 65-66. 4. James A. Field Jr., 'All Economists, All Diplomats', in William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells Jr., eds, Economic and World Power (New York, 1989), 1. 5. Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787; to William Stephen Smith, November 13, 1787, Julian P. Boyd et al. eds, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 24 vols to date (Princeton, 1950- , hereafter Jefferson Papers), XI, 93, XII, 356. 6. Richard K. Mathews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View (Lawrence, Kansas, 1984), 122. 7. James Madison toN. P. Trist, May 1832, Gillard Hunted., The Writings of James Madison 9 vols (New York, 1900-1910) IX, 479. 8. Dumas Malone, Jefferson and his Time, 6 vols (Boston 1948-1981), vol. 1: Jefferson the Virginian vol. 2: Jefferson and the Rights of Man; vol. 3: Jefferson and the Ordeal Liberty; vol. 4: Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805; vol. 5: Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809; vol. 6: The Sage of Monticello. 9. Merrill Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the new Nation: A Biography (New York, 1970); idem, The Jefferson ]mage in the American Mind (New York, 1960). -
John Ben Shepperd, Jr. Memorial Library Catalog
John Ben Shepperd, Jr. Memorial Library Catalog Author Other Authors Title Call Letter Call number Volume Closed shelf Notes Donated By In Memory Of (unkown) (unknown) history of the presidents for children E 176.1 .Un4 Closed shelf 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) Ruth Goree and Jane Brown 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) Anonymous 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) Bobbie Meadows Beulah Hodges 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) 1977 Inaugural Committee A New Spirit, A New Commitment, A New America F 200 .A17 (1977) 1981 Presidential Inaugural Committee (U.S.) A Great New Beginning: the 1981 Inaugural Story E 877.2 .G73 A Citizen of Western New York Bancroft, George Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States E 382 .M53 Closed shelf John Ben Shepperd A.P.F., Inc. A Catalogue of Frames, Fifteenth Century to Present N 8550 .A2 (1973) A.P.F. Inc. Aaron, Ira E. Carter, Sylvia Take a Bow PZ 8.9 .A135 Abbott, David W. Political Parties: Leadership, Organization, Linkage JK 2265 .A6 Abbott, John S.C. Conwell, Russell H. Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America E 176.1 .A249 Closed shelf Ector County Library Abbott, John S.C. -
William Thornton I: 1634, York County, Virginia Was Formed (Known As Charles River County Until 1643)
THORNTON By Marcine E. Lohman Roger Thornton of Lancashire, England Generation No. 1 1. Roger 1 Thornton 1 was born in Rivington, Lancashire, England. Child of Roger Thornton is: + 2 i. William 2 Thornton “The Immigrant”, born circa 1620 in Chorley Parish, Lancashire, England; died 1708 in Cod's Creek, Stafford County, Virginia. Generation No. 2 2. William 2 Thornton I (Roger 1) was born circa 1620 in Chorley Parish, Lancashire, England 2, and died 1708 in Cod's Creek, Stafford County, Virginia 3. He married (1) Avice Russell 4 1640 - 1642 in Rappahannock County, Virginia. She was born circa 1620 5,5 , and died Bef. March 27, 1648 in Virginia (Wm. md. 2nd wife 27 Mar 1648). He married (2) Elizabeth Rowland March 27, 1648 in York County, Virginia (called Gloucester after 1651) 6, daughter of John Rowland and Margaret Bayly. She was born 1627 in Middle Plantation, Williamsburg County, Virginia 7,8 , and died Aft. 1679 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Notes for William Thornton I: 1634, York County, Virginia was formed (known as Charles River County until 1643). 1651, Lancaster County was formed from York and Northumberland Counties, Virginia. 1651, Gloucester County was formed from York County, Virginia. 1653, Westmoreland County was formed from Northumberland County, Virginia (part of King George County was added in 1777). 1656, (Old) Rappahannock County was formed from Lancaster County. It became extinct in 1692 when it was divided into Essex and Richmond counties. 1664, Stafford County was formed from Westmoreland County, Virginia. 1669, Middlesex County was formed from Lancaster County, Virginia. 1692, Richmond County and Essex County was formed from Old Rappahannock County, Virginia.