the daughters of the american revolution, known as da are, is it nonprofit volunteer organization founded in 1890. it has 3000 chapters in the 50 states. their national headquarters, occupies an entire city block in washington d.c., and their mission is promoting patriotism, and securing america s future through better education for children. american history tv visited them to join the curators tour fashioning the new women 1890 1925 welcome. i m a curator of textiles and costumes here at the museum and i am the curator of this exhibit, fashioning the new women. the exhibit looks at women at the turn of the 20th century and a normal changes that took place in fashion in that period which in large part reflects the enormous changes, their rules, and lives in that period. here in the front you see that enormous contrast between it cost him from the last gasp of the bustle area in the really late 19 eighties and 35 years later the mid 19 twenties. clearly a enormous shift has t
discusses the rise and fall of the 13 year experiment in america. he s the author of prohibition, alcohol in america, from demon run, in washington d.c., how dry we weren t. good evening. i m lauren rosenberg with smithsonian associates. i m so glad you re here tonight. to our members thank you. it s your ongoing support that makes things like this possible. if you re joining us for the first time the wide range of programs that we offer at smithsonian and associates. that s the perfect time to silence your cellphones or anything else that might make noise during the program. we are thrilled tonight to welcome author, historian, carat pack, in addition to the many tours he leads his temperance tour of probation related sites has been featured on c-span, book tv, and history tv program, ten things you didn t know about with punk rock legend, henri rollins. he s the author of seven books including probation in washington d.c.. have dry we weren t. the probation hangover. de
feldman analysts is artistic portrayals of the american revolution and civil war. she talks about the influence of paintings, sculptures, in memorials on how history is remembered. the smithsonian associates host to this event. today we are going to look at the american revolution and civil war, in particular, but a little beyond that. controversies about the stories we tell. i am going to focus, because it is impossible to cover such an amount of material in one top. i m going to focus in particular on the nation s capital, and the public buildings on the mall, which is after all, the centerpiece of american political culture, and our public culture, where people come from all around the world, and the country to participate in government, to learn about government, to understand our heritage. so i thought what is it we say to those people when they come to washington? what have been some of the controversies? what are some of the issues we should be aware of? and what is
where he also had figures such as this but in his case, it s peace rielding in ayuchlful chariot. you can see the peace in the center. the partially nude female figure crowned riding the four horses and golden victory figures off to each side. well, this is what mills had in mind for george washington. they were thinking of it for george washington that transposed him from the human, from the everyday, from a general to now a super human almost god-like figure. and so when construction, which had been halted on the washington monument for about 20 years in the 1860s and 70s, when construction was started up again, the engineer, thomas casey, who really loved modern inventions, elevators, electric lights, decided no we re not going to put that temple at the bottom. he wanted the washington monument to stay that would represent america. moving forward into the 20th century. and so he now saw it as a sleek monument of american ingenuity
early 20th century attempted to improve social and economic conditions through trust busting, interstate regulation and prohibition. also theodore roosevelt the period s most dominant political figure. our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what i think it s core dialectic. was the tension between democracy and efficiency. these were both ideals that people from a broad spectrum of political spectrums in the progressive area believed were important, and they believe they weren t incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. so again throughout cost day think about democracy versus efficiency. so the central question for historians at the earliest 20th century is what is progressivism? a famous article that he met in 1982 with entitled, in search of progressed subsystem, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that the progressive area existed but wondering