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THIS VOLUME in the United States Capitol Historical
Society's Perspectives on the American Revolution series
explores how the architecture of the Capitol is imbued with
the political culture of its time. Editor Donald R. Kennon
writes, "Just as the constitutional framework for the new
nation adapted and reformulated classical theories of
republicanism, so too would the creation of its capital. The
classical past would serve as models, but as models to be
worked out in the context of the new American experiment in
republicanism." These essays emanated from the syposium held
by the Society in 1993 to commemorate the bicentennial of
the laying of the cornerstone of the United States
Capitol.
Contents:
- " Republican Expectations: Revolutionary Ideology and
the Compromise of 1790," Melvin Yazawa, University of New
Mexico
- " A Capital before a Capitol: Republican Visions,"
Kenneth R. Bowling, George Washington University
- "' The Year 1800 Will Soon Be upon Us': George
Washington and the Capitol," Kenneth R. Bowling, George
Washington University
- " The Capital and the State: Washington, D.C., and
the Nature of American Government," James M. Banner Jr.,
author of To the Hartford Convention
- " Roman Matron on the Banks of Tiber Creek: Margaret
Bayard Smith and the Politicization of Spheres in the
Nation's Capital," Fredrika J. Teute, Omohundro Institute
of Early American History and Culture
- " Politics and the Ambivalence of the Private Sphere:
Women in Early Washington, D.C.," Jan Lewis, Rutgers
University
- "' In the Greatest Solemn Dignity': The Capitol
Cornerstone and Ceremony in the Early Republic," Len
Travers, Massachusetts Historical Society
- "' Sensible Signs': The Emblematic Education of
Post-Revolutionary Freemasonry," Steven C. Bullock,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- " The Capitol in Washington, D.C., and Its
Freemasonic Connections," James Stevens Curl, De Montfort
University, United Kingdom
- " From the Ancient Roman Republic to the New American
One: Architecture for a New Nation," Damie Stillman,
University of Delaware
- " Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Models and the
United States Capitol," Charles E. Brownell, Virginia
Commonwealth University
- " Power, Civic Virtue, Wisdom, Liberty, and the
Constitution: Early American Symbols and the United
States Capitol," Pamela Scott, author of Temple of
Liberty
- " The United States Capitol as Mausoleum: Or, Who's
Buried in Washington's Tomb?," Karal Ann Marling,
University of Minnesota
- "' Conglomerate Rock': The American Nation and
Capitol in Its Greatest Work of History," David Grimsted,
University of Maryland, College Park
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