Donald R. Kennon
Donald R. Kennon is chief historian of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He is coeditor of the Ohio University Press series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789–1801 and editor of the series Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol.
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The United States Capitol
Designing and Decorating a National Icon
The United States Capitol is a national cultural icon, and among the most visually recognized seats of government in the world. The past quarter century has witnessed an explosion of scholarly interest in the art and architectural history of the Capitol.…
Neither Separate Nor Equal
Congress in the 1790s
Scholars today take for granted the existence of a “wall of separation” dividing the three branches of the federal government. Neither Separate nor Equal: Congress in the 1790s demonstrates that such lines of separation among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, however, were neither so clearly delineated nor observed in the first decade of the federal government's history.…
Establishing Congress
The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800
Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800 focuses on the end of the 1790s, when, in rapid succession, George Washington died, the federal government moved to Washington, D.…
Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation’s Capital
At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army engineer, Gen. Joseph G.…
American Pantheon
Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol
Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation's ideals—an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation's founding to the level of myth.…
The House and Senate in the 1790s
Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development
Amid the turbulent swirl of foreign intrigue, external and internal threats to the young nation’s existence, and the domestic partisan wrangling of the 1790s, the United States Congress solidified its role as the national legislature.…
Inventing Congress
Origins and Establishment of the First Federal Congress
On March 4, 1789, New York City's church bells pealed, cannons fired, and flags snapped in the wind to celebrate the date set for the opening of the First Federal Congress. In many ways the establishment of Congress marked the culmination of the American Revolution as the ship of state was launched from the foundation of the legislative system outlined in Article I of the Constitution.…
Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism
From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson
In 1815 the United States was a proud and confident nation. Its second war with England had come to a successful conclusion, and Americans seemed united as never before. The collapse of the Federalist party left the Jeffersonian Republicans in control of virtually all important governmental offices.…
In the Shadow of Freedom
The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital
Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there.…
Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s
During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the nation, but debate over their status—and more importantly the status of slavery within them—paralyzed the nation.…
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Associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley… - Wulf Kansteiner
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Chair and professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Globalization Research Center–Africa… - Roy Kelly
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Chief historian of the United States Capitol Historical Society… - Thembela Kepe
Assistant professor of geography and international development studies at the University of Toronto, Canada… - Greet Kershaw
Formerly a professor of anthropology at California State University, Long Beach… - James Kilgore
Research scholar at the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois… - David Killingray
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Professor of international and comparative education and the director of the Centre of African Studies in the University of Edinburgh… - Roma A. King, Jr.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University… - Galway Kinnell
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Professor of history and a professor of law at Washington University, St. Louis… - Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
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Visiting assistant professor of history at Ohio University where he specializes in 20th-century American politics and public policy… - Paul H. Kratoska
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