Events

Gallery Talks: Constitution Week

All talks being at noon.

Monday, September 13, 2010
Barbara Bair will discuss the speech given by Fredrick Douglass at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, NY on July 5, 1852
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Mark Dimunation will discuss the Federalist Papers
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Ed Redmond will discuss maps of the Revolutionary War period
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Thursday, September 16, 2010
Gerard Gawalt will discuss the Alien and Sedition Act
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Friday, September 17, 2010
Gerard Gawalt will discuss the process of drafting and passing the United States Constitution during the summer of 1787
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Gallery Talks

All talks being at noon.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at Noon
Gerard Gawalt will discuss the lives of Colonial loyalists and patriots
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at Noon
Ford Peatross will discuss the making of the “President’s House”
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at Noon
Eiichi Ito will discuss Tessaku, a magazine published in a Japanese Relocation Camp
Creating the United States Exhibition, 2nd Floor, Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building

January 7, 2009
Gerard Gawalt, curator of Creating the United States
“The Formation of the Electoral College”
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

January 14, 2009
Janice Ruth (MSS)
“Abigail Adam’s Letter Asserting the Rights of Women”
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

February 4, 2009
John Hébert (G&M)
“John Mitchell’s Map of the Colonies”
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

May 20, 2009
Ray White, Music Division
Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner”
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

May 27, 2009
Daun van Ee, G&M Division
The Supreme Court’s Miranda Decision
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

June 10, 2009
Sara Duke, Prints and Photographs Division
Herb Block and the Bill of Rights
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

June 17, 2009
Gerard Gawalt, curator of Creating the United States
Separation of Church and State
Creating the United States exhibition, 2nd Floor, SW Gallery, Jefferson Building

Teacher Institutes

A cooperative endeavor between the Interpretive Programs Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, this institute invites educators from across the country to learn about America’s founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—based on the Library’s primary and web based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition Creating the United States as its foundation.

Dates:

Friday, March 26, 2010; 8:30 am – 4 pm
Saturday, March 27, 2010; 8:30 am – 4 pm FULL
Monday, March 29, 2010; 8:30 am – 4 pm

The Fall session for all three days is full and no longer available for registration. We will offer it again in the Spring. An announcement will be sent via email.