In The Shadow Of The United States Capitol

Author : Abby Arthur Johnson,Ronald M. Johnson
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781955835107

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In the Shadow of the United States Capitol by Abby Arthur Johnson,Ronald M. Johnson Pdf

A fascinating study of America’s first national burial ground, with photos: “It’s stunning to realize what a who’s who exists in that space.” —Howard Gillette, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University at Camden This study explores the multiple ways in which Congressional Cemetery has been positioned for some two hundred years in “the shadow” of the U.S. Capitol. The narrative proceeds chronologically, discussing the burial ground during three periods: the antebellum years; the years from the end of the Civil War to approximately 1970, when the site progressively deteriorated; and the period from the early 1970s to 2007, when both public and private organizations worked to preserve the physical site and the memory of what it has been and continues to represent. This monograph focuses on the dominant narrative associated with the site: its legacy as the first national burial ground in the nation. Given this emphasis, the text presents a political and cultural analysis of the cemetery, with particular focus on the participation of the U.S. Congress. “This book makes historians and many others aware of a fascinating and complicated history. Moreover, it not only details the long history of the cemetery, but it uses it to explore the nature of historic memorials generally in the creation of national memory.” —Steven Diner, Chancellor of Rutgers University at Newark “The history of Congressional Cemetery is intimately tied up in the changing demographics of its locale, and its corresponding decline as the neighborhood around Christ Church changed led to its emergence as a cause célèbre for historic preservationists.” —Donald Kennon, Chief Historian for the United States Capitol Historical Society and editor of The Capitol Dome “The Johnsons have done an excellent job of mining a wide range of sources and conveying the complex history of an institution that merits documentation.” —Howard Gillette, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University at Camden

Author : William Anthony Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005106583

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Public buildings and grounds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110730087

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Extension and Completion of the United States Capitol. Hearings ... on S. 1170 ... February 6, 9, 11, 1937 by United States. Congress. Senate. Public buildings and grounds Pdf

Author : Abby Arthur Johnson,Ronald Maberry Johnson
Publisher : New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0986021628

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822030285837

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The Construction of the United States Capitol by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration Pdf

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210019949856

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United States Statutes at Large by United States Pdf

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135011970

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Shadows of the Slave Past by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in slave depots, the Middle Passage, the arrival in the Americas, the daily life of forced labor, until the fight for emancipation and the abolition of slavery. Relying on a multitude of examples from the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the book discusses how different groups and social actors have competed to occupy the public arena by associating the slave past with other human atrocities, especially the Holocaust. Araujo explores how the populations of African descent, white elites, and national governments, very often carrying particular political agendas, appropriated the slave past by fighting to make it visible or conceal it in the public space of former slave societies.

Author : Guy Gugliotta
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429969222

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Freedom's Cap by Guy Gugliotta Pdf

The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the new Capitol rose above Washington's skyline, battles over slavery and secession ripped the country apart. Ground was broken just months after Congress adopted the compromise of 1850, which was supposed to settle the "slavery question" for all time. The statue Freedom was placed atop the Capitol's new dome in 1863, five months after the Battle of Gettysburg. In Freedom's Cap, the award-winning journalist Guy Gugliotta recounts the history and broader meaning of the Capitol building through the lives of the three men most responsible for its construction. We owe the building's scale and magnificence to none other than Jefferson Davis, who remained the Capitol's staunchest advocate up until the week he left Washington to become president of the Confederacy. Davis's protégé and the Capitol's lead engineer, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, became quartermaster general of the Union Army and never forgave Davis for his betrayal of the nation. The Capitol's brilliant architect and Meigs's longtime rival, Thomas U. Walter, defended slavery at the beginning of the war but eventually turned fiercely against the South. In impeccable detail, Gugliotta captures the clash of personalities behind the building of the Capitol and the unique engineering, architectural, design, and political challenges the three men collectively overcame to create the iconic seat of American government.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00187006983

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Sundry Civil Bill, 1917 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452267395

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Student's Guide to Congress by Bruce J. Schulman Pdf

Who is running America—Congress or the President? The way Congress works: How does an idea become a law? Imagine how questions like these, in Student's Guide to Congress, will stimulate discussion among your students. The book covers topics such as: ? Origins of Congress Powers of Congress Congressional Procedures Congressional Leadership Elections and Constituents Student’s Guide to Congress is the second title in the brand new Student's Guide to the U.S. Government Series, which presents essential information about the U.S. government in a manner accessible to high school students. In a unique three-part format, these titles place at the reader’s fingertips everything they need to know about the evolution of elections, Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, from the struggles to create the U.S. government in the late eighteenth century through the on-going issues of the early twenty-first century. Each Guide is divided into three sections: Part One Three essays, each addressing a provocative question about the book’s topic Part Two A-Z entries covering key concepts and terms Part Three Primary Source Library of legislation, Supreme Court cases, and other historical documents The user-friendly design includes: Pro/Con debates Maps Timeline Charts Photos Political cartoons Profiles of decision makers And much more! The Student's Guide to the U.S. Government Series from CQ Press is written so that students need no prior knowledge to understand the fundamental concepts presented. By placing at hand—in thought-provoking essays, easy-to-understand encyclopedic entries, and pivotal primary source documents—the essential information needed by student researchers and educators, the Student's Guide to the U.S. Government Series offers valuable resources for government, politics, and history classes.

Author : Paul Finkelman,Donald R. Kennon
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821443491

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In the Shadow of Freedom by Paul Finkelman,Donald R. Kennon Pdf

Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation’s capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery in the territories newly acquired from Mexico, and even the legality of the slave trade in itself. This volume, with essays by some of the most distinguished historians in the nation, explores the twin issues of how slavery made life possible in the District of Columbia and how lawmakers in the district regulated slavery in the nation. Contributors: David Brion Davis, Mary Beth Corrigan, A. Glenn Crothers, Jonathan Earle, Stanley Harrold, Mitch Kachun, Mary K. Ricks, James B. Stewart, Susan Zaeske, David Zarefsky

Author : Lisa Lowe,David Lloyd
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822382317

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The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital by Lisa Lowe,David Lloyd Pdf

Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements—challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production. Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe advance a new understanding of "cultural politics" within the context of transnational neocolonial capitalism. This perspective contributes to an overall critique of traditional approaches to modernity, development, and linear liberal narratives of culture, history, and democratic institutions. It also frames a set of alternative social practices that allows for connections to be made between feminist politics among immigrant women in Britain, women of color in the United States, and Muslim women in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and Canada; the work of subaltern studies in India, the Philippines, and Mexico; and antiracist social movements in North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. These connections displace modes of opposition traditionally defined in relation to the modern state and enable a rethinking of political practice in the era of global capitalism. Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Nandi Bhatia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chungmoo Choi, Clara Connolly, Angela Davis, Arturo Escobar, Grant Farred, Homa Hoodfar, Reynaldo C. Ileto, George Lipsitz, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Aihwa Ong, Pragna Patel, José Rabasa, Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla

Author : Glenn Brown
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02399807H

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Glenn Brown's History of the United States Capitol by Glenn Brown Pdf

Plastics, discusses plastic as a material, the different manufacturing and processing techniques, historical uses, current uses, an explanation of the harmful effects on the environment, and how to reuse and recycle plastics. Additionally, this title features a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, diagrams, recycling sidebars, statistics, and recommended websites for further exploration.

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C22123

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Activities of the Commission and Complete-final Report of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission ... by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission Pdf

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717612

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The Field of Blood by Joanne B. Freeman Pdf

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.