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And they keep coming! Fourth Wave exhibit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/404e2c75-05b1-44e7-9401-f44d2f061cd8/unnamed+%2815%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Our National Women's History Museum exists, it's virtual, and you can visit it now! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/civil-war-newspapers-were-like-early-book-clubs-everyone-read-the-same-thing monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/fd988370-e2cd-4ded-80eb-166d8fd6664d/unnamed+%2812%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out When Lincoln met Harriett Beecher Stowe, he reportedly said: "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Harriett Beecher Stowe was an educator, author, and abolitionist in Maine who based her novel on published accounts of enslaved people and on interviews. Her novel's emotionally stirring description of a runaway enslaved mother and child was triggered in part by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The law expanded enforcement efforts of Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of escaped slaves. The law mandated that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate, which greatly deepened animosity in the North to slavery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/9cc191d0-5fad-4442-a070-53e0d6cc8dba/unnamed+%2813%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/5d99ad8d-63ab-41d4-8953-fbd40c3bb56b/srl.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/7e38b6b7-84e8-4d12-befd-0a454b042863/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out The original cover Published in two volumes because the story was still being serialized in the newspaper, the publisher added illustrations. On its first day as a book it sold 3000 copies; in the first year, 300,000 copies sold in the U.S. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold equally well in Britain, reaching sales over 1.5 million copies. By 1857 it was translated into 20 languages. In 1901 it became the first American novel translated into Chinese. it was the first book I read as I began to write Faith on the Mall. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/what-are-you-learning-about-black-history-and-culture-this-month monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1723323290581-QQ08SOSDEVO1TMDJ3KD4/unnamed+%284%29.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1723323292155-PEXD56P5PBCL5B43PSZQ/unnamed+%283%29.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1723323293705-J2ZR4TGANJ4QWBS89TD4/unnamed+%282%29.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/a53754b0-248d-4d83-9c51-703eb5cc6acd/unnamed+%285%29.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? - Make it stand out OR revisit "Uncle Tom's Cabin" I'd heard about this book many times but never read it until I began my own account of Civil War Times, "Faith on the Mall." The message of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book is one MLK Jr came to adopt in his own championing of non-violence: the power of Christian love to overcome the degradation of blacks by whites. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had a huge readership that substantially strengthened the anti-slavery movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/517990e4-f1d2-4ad4-a5d7-af7d2e087e34/unnamed.png National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? - Make it stand out The Martin Luther King, Jr., monument on the National Mall, across the Tidal Basin from the Jefferson Memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/7e3dff2a-38a7-4759-9942-ddac38a6f331/unnamed+%284%29.png National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? - Make it stand out OR check out my own fictional "Faith on the Mall" It begins in 1848, the year of the Pearl Incident in Washington, D.C., the largest nonviolent escape attempt by slaves in the U.S. Personal accounts follow of the slave markets, the great anti-slavery speeches in Congress, and the contraband camps in the North that held run-away slaves as contraband property of the South. And ultimately, we come to the signing by Lincoln of the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the Confederacy. For more, check out my website and past Newsletters here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/860b437f-94a9-49aa-9c82-7b7b56e24238/unnamed+%281%29.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? - Make it stand out That collective leadership that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1963, grew with student lunch counter sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, mass arrests in southern cities, and ultimately into the North's complicity in structural forms of racism. The March on Washington, organized in large part by Bayard Rustin, was the largest and most peaceful civil rights demonstration of the time with approximately 250,000 people attending. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/49349428-6245-456c-b978-abfea4bdbfa5/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - What are you learning about black history and culture this month? - Make it stand out The collective leadership among men and women that led to the iconic Rosa Parks act of bus defiance is like a particle and wave phenomenon. The wave of historic mistreatment of blacks in southern cities found its particle moment when she refused to change her seat on the bus. It was the Montgomery AL bus boycott that thrust the 26-year old King into the forefront of the civil rights movement, not his own choosing. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/was-john-browns-violence-justified-because-it-began-the-war-that-ended-slavery monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/3479df66-3407-409c-a452-04f99d91483a/unnamed+%287%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Was John Brown's violence justified because it began the "war that ended slavery?" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/a8332518-96f1-47b5-91f0-c14f5cfdce2e/unnamed+%284%29.png National Mall Blog - Was John Brown's violence justified because it began the "war that ended slavery?" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/8e539865-9478-4261-9e49-137552c60d5b/unnamed+%286%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Was John Brown's violence justified because it began the "war that ended slavery?" - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/c9172cf2-fdf3-4051-be8d-3264d967eb5a/unnamed+%288%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Was John Brown's violence justified because it began the "war that ended slavery?" - Make it stand out Jacob Lawrence depicts John Brown entreating Frederick Douglass to support the raid, but he chose not to because he believed it would fail. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/smithsonian-archives-hold-over-200-brains-most-removed-from-black-indigenous-and-other-people-of-color monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/e9fbf82c-2f09-44ae-ba7d-f51a0cb153c4/unnamed+%289%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Smithsonian archives hold over 200 brains most removed from Black, Indigenous, and other people of color - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/c4de63ad-cbea-433c-a766-e0cf6249396e/unnamed+%2810%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Smithsonian archives hold over 200 brains most removed from Black, Indigenous, and other people of color - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/73cf734e-0a55-4fa5-94fe-1d65479fd2b8/unnamed+%2811%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Smithsonian archives hold over 200 brains most removed from Black, Indigenous, and other people of color - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/independence-day-1848-saw-the-laying-of-the-cornerstone-for-the-washington-monument monthly 0.5 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/91c2e8bd-bdd6-48fb-b7c3-80c26a06a0dd/unnamed+%2811%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Independence Day, 1848, saw the laying of the cornerstone for the Washington Monument - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/7caab297-70da-4df3-8742-84e5db516eb5/unnamed+%2812%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Independence Day, 1848, saw the laying of the cornerstone for the Washington Monument - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/77dd86c6-a81a-4621-8ad3-ce0609d3e968/unnamed+%2810%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Independence Day, 1848, saw the laying of the cornerstone for the Washington Monument - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/civil-war-newspapers-were-like-early-book-clubs monthly 0.5 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1f017824-0316-45ef-a7b8-13eb82e4bc4e/unnamed+%286%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out When Lincoln met Harriett Beecher Stowe, he reportedly said: "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Harriett Beecher Stowe was an educator, author, and abolitionist in Maine who based her novel on published accounts of enslaved people and on interviews. Her novel's emotionally stirring description of a runaway enslaved mother and child was triggered in part by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The law expanded enforcement efforts of Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of escaped slaves. The law mandated that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate, which greatly deepened animosity in the North to slavery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/4cb9e9d1-349f-4588-b069-1ee874be4771/unnamed+%287%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/authors-and-books/seattle-reads/seattle-reads-past-years https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/21f12dab-50a1-4efe-80d3-7636f83bcd94/unnamed+%288%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/0a7dbd17-6c81-4604-af43-89639fcfb2a4/unnamed+%285%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out The original cover Published in two volumes because the story was still being serialized in the newspaper, the publisher added illustrations. On its first day as a book it sold 3000 copies; in the first year, 300,000 copies sold in the U.S. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold equally well in Britain, reaching sales over 1.5 million copies. By 1857 it was translated into 20 languages. In 1901 it became the first American novel translated into Chinese. it was the first book I read as I began to write Faith on the Mall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/bdff2e7e-081d-4ac6-9f18-dd56bd17e358/unnamed+%289%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Civil War newspapers were like early book clubs - everyone read the same thing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/times-have-been-worse-in-our-countrys-history monthly 0.5 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/2cdb4b51-09fd-4715-9668-7dbd961cb956/unnamed+%282%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Times have been worse in our country's history - Make it stand out Yes, that's one Senator trying to shoot another on the Senate floor. Our original sin of slavery inflicted misery and suffering in so many ways on so many enslaved people that eventually the abolitionists made headway. Which then led to personal political violence that included near deaths in Congress as one elected official after another brought in their guns and knives and created dramatic life and death episodes. The image above is the notorious scene where Senator Henry Foote pulled out his pistol to shoot Senator Thomas Hart Benton who then barred his chest in defiance. Yes, it was very, very bad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/c4115857-047f-4bb8-a025-d329bfb0c7af/unnamed+%284%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Times have been worse in our country's history - Make it stand out Lincoln's life was in grave danger at his first inauguration where soldiers were concealed under the dais and artillery waited nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/39439ca1-ab2f-4617-b101-c564a5f3cc8e/unnamed+%283%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Times have been worse in our country's history - Make it stand out Insurrection to stop an inauguration? That happened too https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/faith-on-the-mall-includes-gay-giants-of-the-day monthly 0.5 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/b3b6d326-c22b-4a0b-912d-5d5f347bebe9/unnamed+%281%29.jpg National Mall Blog - "Faith on the Mall" includes gay giants of the day - Make it stand out Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, his great evolving tome of poetry, marks Walt Whitman as one of the greatest poets of democracy and America. He arrived in Washington City during the Civil War, took a position as a copyist, and visited the injured soldiers in the Armory Hospital and the Patent Office, as depicted in my novel. The cluster of poems known as the Calamus poems celebrate "the manly love of comrades," and engendered criticisms of him as obscene and pornographic. He is thought to have been homosexual or bisexual, illegal at the time. His transcendent love of nature and people and this country overpower such labels. Because I sought to craft a saga of Americana, I begin each Part of my book with an excerpt from his poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/9c53fa1b-b416-4f1d-b8ed-de9b55381dbc/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - "Faith on the Mall" includes gay giants of the day - Make it stand out Senator Charles Sumner Betsy, one of my fictional Lockhouse siblings, becomes the Senator's caregiver after the infamous caning he received on the Senate floor. She falls in love with him - and what Washington woman wouldn't have, with his imposing physical stature and powerful voice, combined with his eloquent anti-slavery speeches. But the love of his life was Samuel Howe. Howe eventually married Julia Ward, the lyricist of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, creating a most unhappy threesome. For a fascinating account of Sumner's romantic friendships, I highly recommend this video. It includes his great friendship with the poet Henry Longfellow and Sumner's attempts at marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/bfbb5179-4084-486c-ab2d-96d8cb1a9c95/President+James+Buchanan.jpg National Mall Blog - "Faith on the Mall" includes gay giants of the day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/lincoln-signed-the-emancipation-proclamation-on-january-1-1863 monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/0d9cbb24-ed03-489a-a4b9-cacffc558a8a/unnamed+%2813%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/7e4e5e37-d277-42b2-9826-a639a3a63cc0/unnamed+%2814%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/5535ce57-8e87-4995-84eb-12823bc00e5f/unnamed+%2812%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/the-setting-of-the-washington-lockhouse-in-1848 monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/a9b3a5f0-6739-4e7e-9f8b-9945b794ae8a/unnamed+%289%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The Setting of the Washington Lockhouse in 1848 - Make it stand out AT THE BASE OF THE PRESIDENT'S MANSION (UPPER LEFT) IT WAS THE ENTRY TO THE CITY OR WASHINGTON CANAL WHICH MADE THE MALL LITERALLY AN ISLAND (FOLLOW THE RED LINE.) Built in 1837, it truly begins the history of construction on the National Mall (In case you're wondering, the Capitol grounds are technically not part of the Mall.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/2d6bbfe1-d051-4e4d-95c1-c5beed89c81c/unnamed+%2811%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The Setting of the Washington Lockhouse in 1848 - Make it stand out JULY 4, 1848 The laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument is the first civic event in my novel When the cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848, my character Betsy describes the crowd of 20,000, and pomp and circumstance that included President James K. Polk, Dolley (Mrs. James) Madison, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Parke Custis, and future Presidents James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Abraham Lincoln. Something to rival our current Mall events! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/0884b304-0808-4c09-8074-e201bf2181b0/unnamed+%288%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The Setting of the Washington Lockhouse in 1848 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/7b3364b8-2d71-4515-b4a8-1280234f54a7/unnamed+%2810%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The Setting of the Washington Lockhouse in 1848 - Make it stand out AFTER THE RENOVATION Today, it's an entry to the Mall where you can learn its history The Trust for the National Mall raised the funds to restore it and you can click here to learn more and watch a video of its movement farther away from Constitution Avenue. We owe a big debt to the Trust for this important work. Donate here to support their continuing work on our national legacy. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/no-the-lincoln-memorial-has-not-been-there-forever monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/63b6a423-cf35-460e-abfd-c69edfa01d81/acropolis-g5f0d2d7b1_1280.jpg National Mall Blog - No, the Lincoln Memorial has not been there forever - Make it stand out The Parthenon is almost 2500 years old, designed by Pericles Built on the Acropolis in Athens, it was a lavish temple to Athena, the goddess associated with warfare, protection, power, and wealth. An enormous golden statue of Athena dominated the temple. Over a thousand years later, the temple was a Christian Church dedicated to Mary, and later yet, it became a mosque. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1b97a121-860b-4af8-bd77-54d343fd1e4b/unnamed+%284%29.png National Mall Blog - No, the Lincoln Memorial has not been there forever - Make it stand out Lincoln's Memorial, dedicated in 1922, just turned 100 Fifty-seven years passed after Lincoln's assassination before the Memorial was funded, agreed upon, and built on the western part of the Mall that didn't even exist when Lincoln was alive. Designed by Henry Bacon in the heyday of neo-classicalism in this country, it was part of the City Beautiful movement. A time when imitating ancient Greek and Roman architecture was the style favored to connote democratic ideals and civic order. When I first saw it over 50 years ago, I didn't think to question its origins - so linked was it in my mind to images of Greece, it seemed like it must have been there forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/e7577af2-f3ec-49b7-a370-6a22752cfa25/unnamed+%287%29.jpg National Mall Blog - No, the Lincoln Memorial has not been there forever - Make it stand out The Watergate Steps became a concert place The orchestra played on a barge docked in the Potomac while the audience sat on the steps beneath the night sky. (You can see it in the 1958 Cary Grant and Sophia Loren movie, Houseboat.) The “Sunset Symphonies” lasted from 1935 until 1965, when they were canceled because of jet noise. How unfortunate! Today they are a useless set of stairs with a busy road curving beneath them. Occasionally bikers rest there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/6921960f-377a-4b1e-b712-d52e9dce4727/unnamed+%285%29.png National Mall Blog - No, the Lincoln Memorial has not been there forever - Make it stand out See those steps on the Potomac River side They're called the Watergate Steps (the source of name of the nearby Watergate complex where the infamous break-in occurred.) These 40 steps were designed to be the place where VIPS might be received as they sailed up the Potomac to the Capital. That never occurred, but for years, something more democratic did. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/hpls53wsj4632bur5t23vmfhmsqucp monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/22421f9f-2051-4f9d-81a5-983426b7cc2d/unnamed+%282%29.png National Mall Blog - When WWI veterans came to Washington DC, 90 years ago... - Make it stand out They organized as the BEF, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, reminding all of their war service in Europe as the American Expeditionary Forces. By the end of May, 1932, there were 10,000. That grew to 43,000 by July. They were well led and organized. Some communists joined their ranks, which led President Hoover and others to focus on their fears of radical elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/9eadb0a6-ba7b-44c4-a9f1-cdaf0ee1a58e/unnamed+%283%29.png National Mall Blog - When WWI veterans came to Washington DC, 90 years ago... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/a500cf24-8938-429e-9b6d-0a0e33db432f/unnamed+%284%29.jpg National Mall Blog - When WWI veterans came to Washington DC, 90 years ago... - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/2ac96602-a364-4a27-b2e2-9bf7e4c96a06/unnamed+%285%29.jpg National Mall Blog - When WWI veterans came to Washington DC, 90 years ago... - Make it stand out As a result of daily protests outside the Capitol in June and July, the House voted to pay their bonuses. But the Senate had their own fiscal concerns and voted the House bill down in late July - and then went home for recess. That left the President to deal with the BEF. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/the-world-doesnt-like-independent-womenwhy-i-dont-know-but-i-dont-care monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/2e8bec25-1c46-49c6-b6c8-fe609bd0b401/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - "The World doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care." - Make it stand out Berenice Abbott, photographer and proto-feminist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/56ecb28b-bca0-42e4-b0be-6b5d0b59da8a/201307F03-KC-MigrantMother-Photo-Portrait.jpg National Mall Blog - "The World doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care." - Make it stand out "Migrant Mother" Her iconic photo, Migrant Mother, inspired my scene of Estela meeting with a mother on the steps of the National Museum. The fictional destitute woman was there with her husband who was taking part in the 1934 Bonus March to get his WW1 pension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/6ae2a862-aeca-4a37-b407-fd59714c3c6f/hi-res-book_cover_0.png National Mall Blog - "The World doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care." - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/bf257aa9-cf90-48f1-9919-d95513665dd2/unnamed.png National Mall Blog - "The World doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care." - Make it stand out Dorothea Lange Her work during the Depression photograping migrants made her one of the world's most renowned woman photographers. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/october-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/69725246-0a19-4756-8c2e-674a6b90a484/unnamed+%287%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The "City Beautiful" movement determined the National Mall of today - Make it stand out Notice the proximity of the Potomac to the Washington Monument - which meant it flooded the area. The Canal across the city - which turned and ran down to the Anacostia River making the Mall an island - is now a sewer in part under Constitution Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/4492f147-54e5-462f-a1d1-03304bd3b298/1024px-12072012_Smithsonian_Building_02a.jpg National Mall Blog - The "City Beautiful" movement determined the National Mall of today - Make it stand out The Smithsonian Castle ... designed by James Renwick is part of the Romanesque and Gothic revival (styles all considered "Victorian" because of their popularity during Queen Victoria's 60-year reign.) The Plan's radical redesign replaced the Mall greenhouses, gardens, trees, and commercial/industrial facilities with a long and broad expanse of grass, lined with American elm trees. Basically, the Mall we experience now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/88067b53-fd6c-4ee0-addc-6bceaaa28f5b/unnamed+%288%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The "City Beautiful" movement determined the National Mall of today - Make it stand out Expand this photo from 1863 In the foreground, to the right is the Conservatory (later Botanic Garden.) Behind that, stretching across are the train tracks. The white sheds beyond are the Armory Hospital of the Civil War. Behind that, the Smithsonian in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/3c59dcf1-178d-4fdd-8605-f7509cfae3f3/image_2021-11-16_190250.png National Mall Blog - The "City Beautiful" movement determined the National Mall of today - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/86f4661f-b46a-4f89-a692-7b6c6188e3af/5152828241_a145cf0dca_b.jpg National Mall Blog - The "City Beautiful" movement determined the National Mall of today - Make it stand out The 1910 National Museum (now Natural History Museum) ... shows the Neoclassical Greek and Roman influences. Designed by one of the Plan's creators, it was followed in style by the Lincoln Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, the Supreme Court, and last, the Jefferson Memorial. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/who-are-we-honoring-on-presidents-day monthly 0.5 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/00e91b50-601f-46f7-a1fe-4b07864e2614/unnamed+%282%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Who are we honoring on Presidents' Day? - Make it stand out While Congress acted after Lincoln's assassination to authorize a monument commission, it wasn't until 1910 that it became a serious undertaking. Design options included a simple log cabin and a highway to Gettysburg. Work began on the Parthenon-like structure in 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/abbd0ca5-4079-40e6-8572-2d6ca6398859/unnamed+%281%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Who are we honoring on Presidents' Day? - Make it stand out Presidents' Day initially was a celebration of George Washington's birthday on February 22 For almost 100 years, we honored him on that day. In 1968, it became a national holiday under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, that placed it on the third Monday in February. Officially, the celebration is still "Washington's Birthday." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/8fb9aa60-8e4d-4ba3-bfd8-467bc77e30d8/unnamed+%281%29.png National Mall Blog - Who are we honoring on Presidents' Day? - Make it stand out Lincoln's birthday anniversary is February 12 Many believed that Lincoln should also be celebrated nationally and the holiday's name of Presidents' Day fell into use. Advertisers adopted it. In February, 1971, President Nixon issued a proclamation naming the holiday "President's Day" and calling it "the first such three-day holiday set aside to honor all presidents, even myself." The nerve! Fortunately, given the extremely long and arduous process of authorizing, designing, and completing monuments on the National Mall, only the select few received homage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/14a2f0e4-fdaf-416a-94f2-d6434490de03/unnamed+%283%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Who are we honoring on Presidents' Day? - Make it stand out Begun in 1848, construction on the Washington Monument stalled in 1854, and the 150 foot shaft remained unfinished until 1884. In my forthcoming novel, Faith on the Mall, the dedication ceremony comes early in the book with all its pomp and circumstance. By the war years, the cattle for the soldiers tenting on the Mall grazed around the shaft and were slaughtered inside, offal piling up outside. So much for honoring George, until construction of the 550 foot obelisk began again in 1879. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/september-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/ff4c1541-c6fe-498a-b741-26b703bb43d2/unnamed+%281%29.png National Mall Blog - The National Mall : a place of wars - Make it stand out The temps lasted until 1970 when Presdient Nixon had them demolished Once gone, the space began filling up with memorials to all our wars. While Lincoln's Memorial and the Grant Memorial below the Capitol are the Civil War bookends to the Mall, now the space rid of the temps honors WW2, Vietnam and Korea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/d559f49c-5fe4-45aa-99ec-b83d5f9679da/unnamed+%284%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The National Mall : a place of wars - Make it stand out As the Civil War began, tens of thousands of recruits showed up in Washington to be organized. Their tents were on the Mall. They drilled incessantly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/f0836db8-226a-4f28-a3ff-99dd6554fbbe/armory.jpg National Mall Blog - The National Mall : a place of wars - Make it stand out When Washington turned into a city of makeshift hospitals, Lincoln had state of the art wards built on the Mall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/0482a274-243b-42d8-acea-aa898d321552/unnamed+%283%29.jpg National Mall Blog - The National Mall : a place of wars - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/august-2021 monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/e046c53d-d6b7-4258-8e2c-960b7678b997/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - Happy Birthday Smithsonian! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/cc835752-24a4-45b8-8eff-1952fc4bcc19/1.jpg National Mall Blog - Happy Birthday Smithsonian! - Make it stand out An exhibit is coming you won't want to miss! FUTURES is the first building-wide exploration of the future on the National Mall, and it will take place in the Arts and Industries Building which hasn't been open in decades. Opening in November 2021, and on view until Summer 2022, FUTURES is your guide to a vast array of interactives, artworks, technologies, and ideas that are glimpses into humanity’s next chapter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/8d0b6f54-d464-42f1-bd44-c875a496591a/unnamed+%281%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Happy Birthday Smithsonian! - Make it stand out If you live nearby its museums, it's a great time to visit! Here's the list of museums open. The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum complex, with 155 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. it is also a center for research; public education; national service; and scholarship in art, design, science, technology, history, and culture. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/july-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626796085359-LYEM3HTK4YT1IUC0IDJC/unnamed+%289%29.png National Mall Blog - Franz Boas and Margaret Mead teach and inspire my heroine in the reinvention of race, sex, and gender - Make it stand out Boas invented the field of cultural anthropology Boas opposed the popular ideology of scientific racism that believed in racial superiority/inferiority. He demonstrated that differences in human behavior are largely the result of culture acquired through social learning. Thus culture became the central concept of anthropology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626796219046-MKUWS710BJUMFZGSAHN1/margaretmead.jpg National Mall Blog - Franz Boas and Margaret Mead teach and inspire my heroine in the reinvention of race, sex, and gender - Make it stand out Margaret Mead Her field work in Samoa and Southeast Asia studying the sex attitudes of traditional cultures led to influential books that influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She like Boas, her teacher, believed that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. Her Coming of Age in Samoa posited that sexuality is shaped by culture, and that it is worth studying girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626796300135-CFTW3AFAXWIYVXV6T2BJ/51MwCwivYiL.jpg National Mall Blog - Franz Boas and Margaret Mead teach and inspire my heroine in the reinvention of race, sex, and gender - The top book on my favorite non-fiction reads! Charles King writes engagingly in Gods of the Upper Air of how Boas, Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria, and Zora Neale Hurston changed the foundations of how we think today. For a short version, listen to him on the podcast Throughline, on NPR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626796037757-PPCHJALHDD13A6532YJV/unnamed+%288%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Franz Boas and Margaret Mead teach and inspire my heroine in the reinvention of race, sex, and gender - Make it stand out Boas' critique of racial ideologists was a significant milestone in combating racial prejudice in academia and society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626796057139-80FD6HEMXSSDABDBHF6L/unnamed+%2810%29.png National Mall Blog - Franz Boas and Margaret Mead teach and inspire my heroine in the reinvention of race, sex, and gender - Make it stand out The Ash Can Cats of Barnard College My heroine and wanna-be anthropologist Estela rooms with the Ash Can Cats (Mead in center of photo) at Barnard College who challenged the social conventions of the time regarding women. Mead was honored posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter: "Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn." https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/june-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626795266900-99FGIXPUDIN3Z6XFDWVS/unnamed+%288%29.png National Mall Blog - Moving WWI memorial opens near the Mall reminding us: remember the past - Make it stand out Memorial today has template for bas-relief The final installation will occur in 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626795215528-YW7QRXOWP2PWLJIK7LXO/unnamed+%285%29.png National Mall Blog - Moving WWI memorial opens near the Mall reminding us: remember the past - Make it stand out This memorial called “The Weight of Sacrifice” tells the story of a reluctant soldier who leaves his family to fight, charges into combat, sees men killed around him, and recovers from the shock to return to his family. But does he really recover, one wonders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626795474902-LZHTDGM8IWGV048QLMQB/unnamed+%287%29.png National Mall Blog - Moving WWI memorial opens near the Mall reminding us: remember the past For a deep dive into the Great War watch American Experience's three-part series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626795244030-6VJ22N6GKS5T94HOSG4O/unnamed+%286%29.png National Mall Blog - Moving WWI memorial opens near the Mall reminding us: remember the past - Make it stand out How final sculpture will appear at night Visit the sculptor Sabin Howard's website for his words on sacred art and more photos and videos of this work in progress. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/may-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626794853556-M67LDAXVKYZWZG8UGLET/unnamed+%286%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Some flowers live forever - just like love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626794418987-E0YZEHJANKX0Y20DQ8NS/orchid-3778815_1920.jpg National Mall Blog - Some flowers live forever - just like love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626794645382-UHRCEISNCZ6Q0PHTB1T9/unnamed+%284%29.png National Mall Blog - Some flowers live forever - just like love - Before there was a garden, there was exploration… The history of the Garden’s collections begins with the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-42. Six ships sailed 87,000 miles around the world to bring home 60,000 plant and bird specimens, seeds from over 600 species of plants, and over 250 live plants. Mappers and “scientifics” rendered the world they found – including identifying Antarctica as a continent. Learn more here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626794811648-GWJFT6X44F6O58BZ97WH/unnamed+%285%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Some flowers live forever - just like love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626794892758-FW4VFSA949EB1M5G3RF8/unnamed+%287%29.jpg National Mall Blog - Some flowers live forever - just like love - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/april-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793860456-GWZUK670FPVNZRPOGZ2Q/unnamed+%281%29.png National Mall Blog - Does it surprise anyone that women were movers behind bringing the iconic cherry trees to DC? or shakers helping to protect them? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793995644-82KSP8H1PJ85S7DJ5APC/unnamed+%283%29.png National Mall Blog - Does it surprise anyone that women were movers behind bringing the iconic cherry trees to DC? or shakers helping to protect them? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793908728-0MPL8MD48PWVFWN0W1IJ/unnamed+%282%29.png National Mall Blog - Does it surprise anyone that women were movers behind bringing the iconic cherry trees to DC? or shakers helping to protect them? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.annbeltran.com/national-mall-blog/march-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626791381380-YUZSW8DNWF9QH3QE7R96/unnamed.jpg National Mall Blog - Find Black and Women's History Elements Conjoined in Love on the Mall - Make it stand out Sleeping Africa from the Herbert Ward collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. What did the sculptor intend with this image? How do you interpret it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793397644-AJAQKDAKRMHG3ME5G8RF/NMNH-E323713_ps-26905-D.jpg National Mall Blog - Find Black and Women's History Elements Conjoined in Love on the Mall - A Barongo Girl A Barongo Girl Bronze bust by Herbert Ward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793418986-U54DCEMNGTS7W0QAGTPE/smithsonian-castle.jpg National Mall Blog - Find Black and Women's History Elements Conjoined in Love on the Mall - Smithsonian Warehouse Smithsonian Warehouse The collection can only be viewed online now, absent special request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd90b6c4a832873a1570/1626793429676-HT1HSD4FT6ZG72RXW4UX/NMNH-2009-4881-000001.jpg National Mall Blog - Find Black and Women's History Elements Conjoined in Love on the Mall - Luba Memory Board Luba Memory Board Lukasa (memory board), Luba people, carved wood. 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