Washington DC’s tunnels – a followup (and the 2018 Q&A)
Recently the urbanist 99% Invisible podcast interviewed Elliot Carter about his website on the tunnels of Washington, D.C. LISTEN here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-13/ (about 15 minutes) In 2018 we’d done this Q&A with … Continue reading
John Wood: United States Capitol Photographer (1856-1864) — January 13, 2021
Title: John Wood: United States Capitol Photographer (1856-1864) Presenter: Adrienne Lundgren, Photograph Conservator, Library of Congress Date and Time: January 13, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm EST This lecture … Continue reading
Jean Baker – Interview with an Author – “Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe”
Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Jean H. Baker, Oxford University Press, 2020. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190696450.001.0001/oso-9780190696450 Tell us about the book: Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe is … Continue reading
Matthew R. Costello – Interview with a Washington DC History Author – “The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President”
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-2827-8.html The Property of the Nation; George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President. University Press of Kansas, October 2019. Matthew R. Costello 1. Tell us … Continue reading
Pamela Scott – Interview with a Washington DC History Author – “Creating Capitol Hill: Place, Proprietors, and People”
Creating Capitol Hill: Place, Proprietors, and People. US Capitol Historical Society, 2018. Tell us about the book. Antiquarian Charles Carroll Carter, political historian William C. di Giacomantonio, historian-cartographer Don Alexander … Continue reading
Washington’s first bicycle craze — ‘Cycling in the 1880s and 1890s
A daredevil bicyclist riding his enormous two-wheeler down the Capitol’s House-side east front steps — it’s a famous image everyone recognizes. Any work even casually mentioning bicycles in Washington will refer to it; it’s been on the cover of books about Washington, but there’s much more to the story — of the photograph itself, of the event, of the 1890s bicycle craze in Washington it represented.
Pompeii on the Potomac: Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:00pm — Brumidi’s Nineteenth-Century, Roman-style Frescos in the US Capitol
Pompeii on the Potomac: Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:00pm Brumidi’s Nineteenth-Century, Roman-style Frescos in the US Capitol Rare Book and Special Collections Division Pompeii on the Potomac: Thursday, May 31, … Continue reading
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