| Description |
xiii, 583 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Perspectives on the American Revolution |
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Perspectives on the American Revolution.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at a symposium held by the United States Capitol Historical Society in 1993 to commemorate the bicentennial of the laying of the cornerstone of the United States Capitol. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Republican expectations : revolutionary ideology and the compromise of 1790 / Melvin Yazawa -- A capital before a Capitol : republican visions / Kenneth R. Bowling -- "The year 1800 will soon be upon us" : George Washington and the Capitol / Kenneth R. Bowling -- The capital and the state : Washington, D.C. and the nature of American government / James M. Banner, Jr. -- Roman matron on the banks of Tiber Creek : Margaret Bayard Smith and the politicization of spheres in the nation's Capitol / Fredrika J. Teute -- Politics and the ambivalence of the private sphere : women in early Washington, D.C. / Jan Lewis -- "In the greatest solemn dignity" : the Capitol cornerstone and ceremony in the early Republic / Len Travers -- "Sensible signs" : the emblematic education of post-revolutionary freemasonry / Steven C. Bullock -- The Capitol in Washington, D.C. and its freemasonic connections / James Steven Curl -- From the ancient Roman Republic to the new American one : architecture for a new nation / Damie Stillman -- Thomas Jefferson's architectural models and the United States Capitol / Charles E. Brownell -- Power, civic virtue, wisdom, liberty and the constitution : early American symbols and the United States Capitol / Pamela Scott -- The United States Capitol as Mausoleum : or, who's buried in Washington's tomb / Karal Ann Marling -- "Conglomerate rock" : the American nation and Capitol in its greatest work of history / David Grimsted. |
| Subject |
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Congresses.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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Architecture and state -- Washington (D.C.) -- Congresses.
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Washington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
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United States Capitol Historical Society.
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| ISBN |
0813917956 alkaline paper |
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