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In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the ...
Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.
A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-1400043590. Reiff, Daniel D. Houses from Books. Penn State Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-271-01943-7. Scully, Vincent. American Architecture and Urbanism. New Revised Edition. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Neoclassical liberalism (alternatively spelled neo-classical liberalism [a] or known as new classical liberalism [b]) is a tradition of the liberal thought that, with the premises of John Locke's classical liberalism applied to industrialized societies, stands in opposition to the welfare state and social liberalism.
Neoclassical architecture in Washington, D.C. (4 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Neoclassical architecture in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700.--V. The English and French in North America, 1689-1763.--VI-VII. The United States of North America [1763-1850].--VIII. The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America Sloan candidate Subjects: Early maps; Cartography
During the nineteenth century, professional judges gradually replaced volunteer magistrates as the primary adjudicating authority to decide court cases. [6] Counties gradually grew smaller as western areas were settled with lower population density, but residents still expected to access county services within a reasonable travel distance, and fewer business people and plantation owners had ...
Guy Wilson Allen and Roger Asselineau, An American Farmer: The Life of St. John de Crevecoeur, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; J. Hector St. John. de Crevecoeur, Letters From an American Farmer and Other Essays edited by Dennis D. Moore (Harvard University Press; 2012) 372 pages; combines an edition of the famous 1782 work and his other writings