Of 1812. This was hosted by the u. S. Society andorical James Madisons montpelier, and it is about 30 minutes. Agree has been just a tremendous group of presentations. So the first speaker that will be coming up this afternoon is kenneth r. Bowling. Kenneth received his phd from the university of wisconsin. His specialty is the creation of the is all about the creation of the federal government during the revolution. Hes been very active and interested in particularly researching the seat of government. Hes been the author of many book and articles. Throughout most of his professional life, hes been the coeditor of documentary history of First Federal congress. I do want to say one thing about one of his books, which i think is a real classic now, thats the creation of washington, d. C. , which is published back in 1991. If anybody wants to know about behind the scenes and proceedings and meetings and all the things that went on in terms of the location of national capital, this book i
Say i think most of us would agree that this conference just rocks. [ laughter ] i would like to thank in particular the editor of our papers for the fine job they are doing. Fiona griffin and marsha anderson. [ applause ] one of the i think so i have in common with the next speaker, we tend to edit and precise our talks to about the last minute. So i apologize if suddenly i cant read my own handwriting. Some water. This is going to have to sit up here. In late june 1790, james hemings, enslaved half brother of Thomas Jeffersons deceased wife prepared dinner for secretary of state and two guests. He had invited hamilton and James Madison of virginia in an attempt to resolve a stalemate that despite weeks and weeks of off the floor negotiations threatened to break up congress and some thought the union itself. Hamilton needed a few southern votes in order to achieve congressional passage of a key component of his plan for funding the federal debt. That is the assumption into it of much
Revolution. He has been active and interested in researching the location of the seat of government. He has been the author of many books and articles. Throughout most of his professional life, he has been the coeditor of the documentary of the history of the first congress. Classicis books is a now, published back 1991. Ow, thats the creation of washington, d. C. , which is published back in 1991. If anybody wants to know about behind the scenes and proceedings and meetings and all the things that went on in terms of the location of national capital, this book is a must read. Id like you to welcome kenneth [ applause ] thank you, bill. Rather than thank the individual organizations, i just want to say i think most of us would agree that this conference just rocks. [ laughter ] i would like to thank in particular the editor of our papers for the fine job they are doing. Fiona griffin and marsha anderson. [ applause ] one of the i think so i have in common with the next speaker, we tend
Lonization of an area thought to be something individual private households do that were passed on in a rule of thumb way from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too, talking about household management. Home economics as a field of profession a professional domain where there are experts creating curriculum is a turn of the century kind of invention. Here again is that is not Christine Frederick but that is someone who looks like Christine Frederick. The start in the late 19th century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with
Century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with the past, we might say. What strikes about you this . She has taken this idea of the Scientific Method and applied it to make it as efficient as possible and saving time in everything way and everything is planned out. At the end i was interested when she threw out this is why this is so important and women are leaving becoming mothers to join the work force and thats slil because housekeeping is so important. That reminded me of the beacher sisters. It was her taking the new methods but keeping the ideal of household keepi