Download or read book The U S Capitol written by Kathryn Clay and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Capitol represents our nation's government and its laws. Using primary sources, young readers hear the story behind this American symbol from the people who helped make it what it is today. Engaging text, colorful photos, sidebars, and a variety of primary sources introduce young readers to the U.S. Capitol.

Download or read book U S Capitol Washington D C written by James Lantos and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 60 images relating to the U.S. Capitol building can be found in this full-color paperback. Part of Applewood's Pictorial America series, the book features images drawn from historical sources and includes prints, paintings, illustrations, and photographs. This small gem is the ideal gift for anyone interested in a concise and compelling visual history of one of the most important landmarks in our nation's heritage.

Download or read book Freedom s Cap written by Guy Gugliotta and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the modern U.S. Capitol, the iconic seat of American government, is also the chronicle of America's most tumultuous years. An award-winning journalist has captured with impeccable detail the clash of personalities behind the building of the Capitol and its extraordinary design and engineering.

Download or read book Capitol written by Tamara L. Britton and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the Washington, D.C. Capitol complex buildings, including the United States Capitol building, Senate and House of Representatives office buildings, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress buildings, and others.

Download or read book The Ecocentrists written by Keith Makoto Woodhouse and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world? In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism’s sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.

Download or read book Art in the United States Capitol written by United States. Architect of the Capitol and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Men Built the Capitol written by Jesse Holland and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents details about the role of blacks in the history of Washington, D.C., including in the creation of such historic sites as the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, and provides information on monuments dedicated to the contributions of African Americans.

Download or read book Report of the Architect of the United States Capitol to the Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Architect of the Capitol and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antique reception of art and architecture in the United States Capitol Washington D C written by Elizabeth Ann Soules and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States Capitol written by Dr. Holly Karapetkova and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes The History Of The United States Capitol, Its Significance, And Its Importance To Our Country.

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Download or read book Under the Dome written by Alan M. Hantman and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside account of politics, crisis, and architecture on Capitol Hill The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America’s most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of executive power. As the United States grew in size and complexity, the Capitol was built, rebuilt, enlarged, and extended many times under the direction of the few who have served as Architect of the Capitol. This official heads the agency dedicated to preserving and upgrading this magnificent structure, and all the buildings and grounds of Capitol Hill. In Under the Dome, Alan Hantman, the Architect of the Capitol from 1997 to 2007, provides a personal account of how the Capitol works as a physical space; who runs it, how and why decisions are made about the security of the Capitol and the people who work there, and how politicians think about the Capitol Building. He also recounts security threats to the Capitol during his tenure–including the 1998 shooting murder of two police officers and the Capitol evacuation on 9/11 as a hijacked airplane approached–that underscore one of his greatest challenges as Architect. The tension between securing the Capitol and opening it to the public drove the design and construction under his direction of the Capitol Visitor Center, the largest expansion of the Capitol in its history, increasing its size by 70%.

Download or read book Unfinished Portion of the Capitol Rotunda written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We the People written by Lonnelle Aikman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the United States Capitol building, with a view of the legislators at work.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Download or read book The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers The human rights years 1949 1952 written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's development as diplomat, politician, and journalist in the years 1945-1948. It is filled with original writings and speeches that have been annotated and made easily accessible through a comprehensive index. This is part of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project as the first of a five-volume set covering the years 1945-1962.