Articles with keyword "Washington"
Feature
Making Meta Connections
Nineteen institutions combine resources to give a view of the American Northwest.
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Capital Gains
Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,
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Presidential Service
Benjamin Latrobe and his wife, Mary, helped newly inaugurated President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison furnish the White House.
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Renaissance Scholar at Work
Humanities discusses art and the achievements of the Endowment with outgoing Chairman, Bruce Cole.
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Curiously Reckless Rebels
An exquisitely fine pencil drawing hanging in a bedroom at Tudor Place in Georgetown in the nation’s capital has a tragic tale to tell that is lacking in some basic details.
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Of Stevedores and Book Slingers
Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c
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Bedtime Stories
Did you hear the one about the Japanese villagers who performed burial rights for an American World War II pilot by following the text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake?