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<h3><strong>Science in the Public Service (C-3)</strong></h3>
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<p><em>"In sum, we need a model where there is more scientific knowledge deployed across government, and more knowledge of government and public policy in our science and engineering communities."</em> - Janet Napolitano, United States Secretary of Homeland Security</p>
<p> <br />Creating innovation in science that benefits the community and helps to increase the publics’ safety and well-being demonstrates the importance of science in the public service. More involvement of science in the public service can help to make the delivery of public goods and services more efficient. Every tax payer would welcome a public service with high quality delivery processes and products. A lot of research and development takes place in the expected areas, for example, medicine and space travel, but science in the public service also applies to environmental conservation and food safety.<br /> <br />The United States government has three major agencies mandated to endure food safety. They are: the Food and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Disease Control and Preservation. These agencies are responsible for setting food safety standards, conducting inspections, ensuring that standards are met and maintaining a strong enforcement program to induce compliance. Contemporary policy development supported by the three government agencies has been focused on preventative, rather than reactive measures. The Food and Drug Safety Modernization Act (2011), for example, aims to ensure that food is safe by working to prevent its contamination.<br /> <br />Methods being used to implement the Food and Drug Safety Modernization Act include greater collaboration between the experts and the field workers who do inspections to monitor safe food production processes. The emphasis is on food safety, rather on documenting noncompliance.</p>
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Main Building of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/science-public-service/science-public-service">Return to Science in the Public Service</a></h4>
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The Department of Agriculture Building was the original headquarters of the United States Department of Agriculture located on the National Mall between 12th and 14th Street SW in Washington, D.C. after its creation in 1862. It was first occupied in 1868. However, it was not compatible with the McMillan Plan and was subsequently demolished in 1930.
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Department of Agriculture. Office of the Secretary. Office of Information
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Circa 1895
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture_Building">Wikipedia</a>
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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Department of Agriculture. Office of the Secretary. Office of Information
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Photograph
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English
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Architecture
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Department of Agriculture, Architecture, Washington D.C., Historic, Agriculture
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United States
Agriculture
Architecture
Department of Agriculture
Historic
Washington D.C.
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Palmer Mural, Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington DC
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/danger-public-service-gallery/danger-public-service-gallery">Return to Public Service, Dangerous Service</a></h4>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Mail Coach Attacked by Bandits</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">William C. Palmer painted two 7′ x 13’6″ murals for the Ariel Rios Federal Building. “Covered Wagon Attacked by Indians” and “Mail Coach Attacked by Bandits” were painted in 1937 under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts</span></p>
<p></p>
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William C. Palmer
Date
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1937
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<a href="https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/william-jefferson-clinton-federal-building-palmer-murals-washington-dc/">Living New Deal</a>
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Medium: Mural
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https://livingnewdeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/3478-MailCoachAttackedByBandits.0_display.jpg
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Palmer Mural, Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington D.C., Art, William C. Palmer
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<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2013634513/">Library of Congress</a>
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Library of Congress
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Library of Congress
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English
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Artwork
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Washington D.C.
Ariel Rios Federal Building
Art
Palmer Mural
Washington D.C.
William C. Palmer
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<h3><strong>Public Safety and Law Enforcement (B-3)</strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law."</span></b></em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">- </span></em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">U.S. 44th President Barack Obama</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Police officers, firefighters, and other public safety and law enforcement officers provide necessary services to the community and their work deeply connects them to the people they serve. Quite often, these professionals put their own safety in jeopardy to guard the safety and well-being of citizens, to protect their private property, and to guard vital institutions.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Public safety and law enforcement organizations include emergency management agencies, fire departments, rescue services, emergency medical technicians, departments of motor vehicles who administer driver’s licenses and conduct vehicle inspections, and animal control units. Employees of these organizations come face to face with the daily conflicts and crimes that occur on the streets of our cities and neighborhoods. These vary from littering and noise pollution to property damage, trespassing, burglary, domestic violence and other forms of improper social behavior. In the United States, The Department of Homeland Security is the federal agency responsible for public safety and for federal emergency services rendered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA works proactively to mitigate the impact of disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Public safety and law enforcement officers play an important role during natural and manmade disasters to save lives and support the stabilization of communities in difficult times when people are suffering from personal injury, or the loss of their relatives, homes and other valued possessions. Preparedness is an important aspect of their training. This enabled them to respond quickly and efficiently and to provide well-coordinated and effective incident support and disaster relief.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In the additional resources section to the right is a collection of related public service narratives<em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Ask me why I care,"</span></em>under <em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Tell your story."</span></em> They were curated by the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service in a Public Service Stories Project. Project Co-Directors are Dr. Mary Hamilton and Ms. Rita Paskowitz. The collection includes videos and </span><a href="http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-public-affairs-and-community-service/community-engagement/pss-public-safety.php"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">Suggested Assignments for Students</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">.</span></p>
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Mayor Richard H. Sylvester, Washington, DC Chief of Police
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/public-safety-law-enforcement-/public-safety-law-enforcement-">Return to Safety and Law Enforcement</a></h4>
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Richard Sylvester implemented many police procedures that we still use today. He was the one to coin the ‘third degree’ phrase we commonly use today, as he divided police procedures as the arrest as the first degree, transportation to jail as the second degree and interrogation as the third degree. In 1914, he established the Du Point division to protect the plants that were manufacturing materials for World War I. During an inspection into a fire at one of these plants, he discovered a plot in which criminals planned to destroy buildings by replacing the inside fire extinguishers with gasoline. He swiftly turned the plot over and caught the masterminds. In addition, he came up with the idea to have employees paid by check instead of cash as to reduce payroll robberies, and developed the law that stated concealing or transporting stolen goods used in interstate commerce a crime punishable by a fine of $5,000 or up to two years in prison.
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Bain News Service
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between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915
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A black and white photograph of Richard H. Sylvester, the Chief of Police for Washington, District of Colombia. <br /><br />Source: Richard H. Sylvester. (2012, May 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:52, October 5, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/QPv2E1">http://bit.ly/QPv2E1</a>
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Medium: Photograph.
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https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/12900/12922r.jpg
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Link: Library of Congress <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005012958/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005012958/</a>
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Library of Congress
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Bain News Service
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English
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Figures
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Law Enforcement, Police, Richard Sylvester, Third Degree, Washington D.C.
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Washington D.C.
Law Enforcement
Police
Richard Sylvester
Third Degree
Washington D.C.
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<strong>MLK Memorial </strong><br /><br />For Further Exploration Please Visit <br /><a href="http://www.mlkmemorial.org/">http://www.mlkmemorial.org/</a>
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
Description
An account of the resource
<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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Stone of Hope - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Monument
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/architecture-and-public-works/architecture-gallery">Return to Architecture and Public Works</a></h4>
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<strong>"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."</strong> - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1959 <br /><br />This sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was created by renowned artist Master Lei Yixin and it depicts Dr. King in a moment of reflexion.It serves as the main element in the Martin Luther King memorial, and it's been referred to as the Stone of Hope. The space between the Stone of Hope and the rest of the monument, referred to as the Mountain of Despair, allows for a perfect view of the Thomas Jefferson memorial emphasizing the principles of freedom and liberty.<br /><br />For further exploration, please see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial</a>
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Master Lei Yixin
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2011
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Link: <a href="http://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">National Park Service</span></a>
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Wikimedia
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National Park Service
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National Park Service
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Master Lei Yixin
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Medium: Sculpture
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English
Type
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
Coverage
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Washington D.C.
Civil Rights
MLK
Public Architecture
Washington D.C.
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<strong>White House</strong><br /><br />For Further Exploration Please Visit <br /><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about">http://www.whitehouse.gov/about (dead link)</a>
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
Description
An account of the resource
<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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The White House, 1846
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/architecture-and-public-works/architecture-gallery">Return to Architecture and Public Works</a></h4>
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This image represents the earliest known photograph of the White House. It was taken by entrepreneurial photographer and gallerist John Plumbe in 1846, during the administration of James K. Polk<br /><br />For further exploration, please see <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/</a>
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John Plumbe
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1846
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Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_House_1846.jpg"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The White House, 1846 (via Wikipedia)</span></a>
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Wikimedia
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The White House
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The White House
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John Plumbe
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
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Washington D.C.
Public Architecture
Washington D.C.
White House
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<strong>Poster</strong><br /><br />This commemorative poster features an idealized portrait of a young James Hoban, grouped with a sketch of his meeting with President Washington during the construction of the White House and copies of his only extant White House drawings, a 1792 floor plan and a 1793 north elevation.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/presentations/james-hoban-architect-white-house/index.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The White House Historical Association</strong></span></a> from an online exhibit documenting the illustrative career of architect, James Hoban, as architect of the White House, and for his major contributions to the early growth and development of Washington, D.C.
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<strong>Portrait </strong><br /><br />This portrait is a small wax bas-relief in the White House collection.
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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James Hoban, Public Architect and Developer. Architect of the White House.
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<strong>"Do nothing- Or, take history into our own hands and like few generations are given the chance, bend it, bend it in the service of a better day." </strong> - Joseph R. Biden Jr., Former Vice President of the United States <br /><br />The rich sandstone walls of the White House were built in the last decade of the eighteenth century and except for major repair in 1814-1817 remain largely as they were built. James Hoban is celebrated for contributions to the early growth and development of Washington, D.C., as architect, builder, and mason, captain of a militia company, city councilman and civic leader. Hoban was also a successful real estate developer and initiated a private fund to employ schoolteachers, raise a volunteer fire brigade, and assist Irish construction workers in need. <br /><br />President Washington sought out Hoban, conferred with him, and quickly selected the architect’s proposed design for the President’s House in July 1792. Although time, and occupants with different needs, have altered the White House in many ways, the White House image famous throughout the world is Hoban's entirely.
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James Womer: Poster;
John Christian Rauschner: Portrait
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1981: Poster
c. 1800: Portrait
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Link: <a href="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/presentations/james-hoban-architect-white-house/james-hoban-architect-white-house-01.html">Imaging James Hoban</a>
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White House History & Wikimedia
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The White House
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The White House
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James Womer & John Christian Rauschner
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English
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
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Washington D.C.
James Hoban
Public Architecture
Washington D.C.
White House
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<strong>Statues </strong><br /><br />Photograph in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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First Memorial in the United States Capital Honoring Women's Military Service
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This is the first memorial to be placed in the nation's capital in honor of the military service of women. It is on the grounds of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It depicts three women, one caring for a soldier. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2011631447/"></a>
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Glenna Goodacre
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November 11, 1993
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<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2011631447/">Source: United States Library of Congress</a>
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US Library of Congress
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US Library of Congress
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Glenna Goodacre
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Medium: Sculpture
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English
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
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Washington D.C.
Military Service
Public Architecture
Washington D.C.
Women
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<strong>Ariel View of the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, Washington D.C. </strong><br /><br />Photograph: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War and who died in service or are still unaccounted for. <br /><br />Source: United States Library of Congress
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<strong>Statues</strong> <br /><br />Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith <br /><br />Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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The Three Soldiers, Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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This heroic bronze statue entitled The Three Soldiers is one of the most visited monuments in Washington, D.C. It is situated in the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial and was dedicated by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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Statue: Frederick Hart
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Statue: 1984.
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<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2010630680/">Source: The United States Library of Congress</a>
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Microsoft Virtual Earth & Tripadvisor
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US Library of Congress
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US Library of Congress
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Frederick Hart
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Medium: Photograph & Statue
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English
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
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Washington D.C.
Public Architecture
Soldiers
Vietnam
Washington D.C.
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<strong>Bronze Statute of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States</strong> <br /><br />Rudulph Evans's statue of Thomas Jefferson was mounted in the Jefferson Memorial in 1947, four years after the memorial opened, Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Source: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C.
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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the 3rd president of the United States. This neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope. It was built by Philadelphia contractor John McShain. Construction began in 1939, the building was completed in 1943, and the bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947.
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Rudulph Evans: Statue;
John Russell Pope: Memorial
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Statute and Memorial: 1943. Photograph taken in 1983.
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Rudolph Evans & John Russell Pope
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Public Architecture
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Architecture
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Washington D.C.
Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
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<strong>Memorial </strong><br /><br />Lincoln Memorial - Harris & Ewing Collection (US Library of Congress). Source: Library of of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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<h3><strong>Civic Architecture and Public Works (A-1)</strong></h3>
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<p><em><strong>"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief." </strong></em>- Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>“Public works” entails a broad array of improvement projects, inlcuding development and maintenance of public utilities, bridges and roadways, parks, airports, municipal buildings, communication networks, and many other physical and virtual assets. <br /><br />These are essential to the conduct of society, as many of the forces that impact our lives on a day-to-day basis are impacted by public works. However, these services and infrastructure are so often used that they blend into the background fabric of life, and individuals may not recognize the centrality of the public sector in the provision of these necessities.<br /><br />Public works professionals include laborers, technicians, craftsmen, engineers, and administrators. During the Great Depression, public works provided jobs and a morale boost for Americans, while helping build many key structures and facilities still vital to the country’s modern infrastructure.</p>
Civic architecture defines public institutions and venues as focal points in the landscape of cities, towns and villages. In your mind, picture a city hall, a bandshell, a hospital, a library, a memorial or monument. Envision your favorite parks, schools and universities. These institutions and sites are sources of great community pride, in part due to their architectural magnificence. <br /><br />In many cases, civic architecture is designed to ensure that public venues can accommodate large numbers of the public, to facilitate meaningful interaction between the public and with government. Public venues also serve an important local economic purpose by supporting cultural entertainment, festivals, farmer’s markets, and small business and entrepreneurial activities.<br /><br />The items in the <em>Civic Architecture and Public Works </em>gallery illuminate the presence of public service in our daily activities as well as less signficant moments, both individual and societal. As you review these items, we invite you to consider how the places you frequent and the infrastructure you use is possible because of the public sector.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Lincoln Memorial was one outcome of the 1901 Senate Park Commission, which sought to reimagine Washington D.C.’s National Mall as a grand display of neoclassical architecture. Through taking classical European architectural themes (white marble, open-air porticos, and pillars) as their prototype, these designers and architects were attempting to evoke an idealistic image of ancient Grecian social and political norms. Abraham Lincoln was seen by many in the early 20th century to be the quintessential American embodiment of these principles. “As early as the 1880s, memories of the terrible Civil War had begun to shed their goriness and particularly to assume the form of a national epic,” and within this epic, there was no hero larger than Lincoln. As such, the members of the Senate Park Commission drafted a series of potential memorials to the 16th U.S. President in the first decade of the 20th century. It was not though until 1911, when a sufficient amount of bipartisan agreement was attained, that the plan was able to take off in earnest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Under President William Howard Taft, a Lincoln Memorial Commission was established, and it swiftly commissioned architect Henry Bacon to head the project. Born in 1866, Bacon was already well known for his Greek Revivalist style, demonstrated by his work on the 1889 Paris World Expo, the Boston Public Library, New York’s Pennsylvania Station, and so on. Taking the ancient Athenian Parthenon as his main inspiration, Bacon drafted a “temple-like hall,” closed by thirty-eight Doric columns, within which a large statue of Lincoln and engravings of both his Gettysburg Address and second inaugural address would be held. The marble for the monument was transported all the way from Colorado’s stone quarries and, once this difficult process had commenced, building was able to begin in the spring of 1914. When the dust settled on the construction site in 1918, the price of the project rang in at over $2,000,000. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Immediately, the site became an enduring testament to the large role an individual devoted to the common good and public service can achieve. However, at the same time, it became clear that Lincoln’s memorialization could not ensure that all of his ideals would too be cast in stone. Despite the steps Lincoln took toward American racial equality throughout the Civil War period, President Harding took the memorial’s dedication ceremony as a chance to eerily assert that “the supreme chapter in American history is [union,] not emancipation” (the granting of previously enslaved African Americans full and equal citizenship rights). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Unsurprisingly then, the twentieth century would see the memorial become a vivid site of political contestation. Civil rights activists in the late 1930s, relying on Lincoln’s generally-accepted status as a promoter of democratic ideals and liberal equality, began to imagine the memorial as a fitting space within which to amplify the continued fight for racial and economic justice. In 1939 the memorial, for the first time, became the center of a mass civil rights demonstration after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to book the African-American opera singer Marian Anderson for a performance at Constitution Hall in Washington. Organizations like the NAACP saw incidents like this one as means to expose the significant “dissonance between the ideals Lincoln represented...and the reality of their lived experience,” as the abuses of American segregation continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">By the 1960s, these tensions were still glaringly apparent. As Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a Dream” speech from the steps of the memorial in August of 1963, these words from Lincoln’s second inaugural address stood, engraved, above him: “It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.” However, as Dr. King revealed, the forms of slavery that Lincoln had worked to do away with, had simply been transformed in the context of Jim Crow segregation, not eradicated. “One hundred years later,” he explains “the life of the Negro is still sadly cripped by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” Nearly sixty years after Dr. King’s speech, protestors have again taken to the site to express continued inequality in the United States in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">A key tenant of public service is to render the public sphere more equitable and </span><span style="font-weight:400;">accessible to </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">all</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">. Lincoln’s legacy, embodied in the Lincoln Memorial, allows us to consider and to debate over the ways in which various public servants have historically contributed to this project, while also reminding us that there is always more work to be done. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Sources:</strong><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thomas, Christopher A. "The Marble of the Lincoln Memorial: "Whitest, Prettiest, and ... Best"." </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Washington History</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> 5, no. 2 (1993): 42-63. Accessed February 5, 2021. </span><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/40073208"><span style="font-weight:400;">http://www.jstor.org/stable/40073208</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Schwartz, Barry. "Collective Memory and History: How Abraham Lincoln Became a Symbol of Racial Equality." </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">The Sociological Quarterly</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> 38, no. 3 (1997): 469-96. Accessed February 5, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4121155.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sandage, Scott A. “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963.” The Journal of American History, vol. 80, no. 1, 1993, pp. 135–167. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2079700. Accessed 5 Feb. 2021.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Eberly, Keith R. ""To Thee We Sing": Racial Politics and the Lincoln Memorial." </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">OAH Magazine of History</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> 23, no. 1 (2009): 55-58. Accessed February 5, 2021. http://www.jstor.org.oca.ucsc.edu/stable/25164895.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">“‘I Have A Dream’ Speech, In Its Entirety.” NPR, January 18, 2010, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Nichols, Mackenzie. “Protestors Gather on Lincoln Memorial Steps to Support Black Lives Matter.” Variety Magazine, June 6th, 2020, </span><a href="https://variety.com/2020/scene/news/lincoln-memorial-protest-black-lives-matter-george-floyd-1234626998/"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://variety.com/2020/scene/news/lincoln-memorial-protest-black-lives-matter-george-floyd-1234626998/</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></p>
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<strong>Further Reading:</strong><br /><i><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />Lincoln Memorial: The Story and Design of an American Monument</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;"> by Jay Sacher<br /></span></span><br /><i><span style="font-weight:400;">The Lincoln Memorial and American</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> Life by Christopher Thomas<br /></span><br /><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">by Barry Schwartz</span><br /><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Lincoln and the Radicals</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> by T. Harry Williams</span><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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Henry Bacon (Architect) & Daniel Chester French (Sculptor)
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Lincoln Statue Unveiling: 1920.
Memorial Construction: 1914-1918. Photograph taken in 1923.
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The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
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Washington D.C.