The Lincoln Memorial


 

The FYP Links: 2002-2003

Washington, D.C. Links


Our itinerary for April 5 - April 7, 2002, includes Arlington National Cemetery, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the National Mall.
  • Arlington National Cemetery, the official website of the cemetary. Check out the Historical Information page, especially the page on Arlington House, which was formerly known as the ``Custis-Lee'' mansion.

  • The National Mall with links to web pages for the major memorials on the Mall, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Check out the feature article: Creation of the National Mall.

  • The Unites States Memorial Holocaust Museum, located on the National Mall.

  • At the National Museum of American History we'll be focusing on the following three exhibits:

    • Field to Factory at the National Museum of American History (2nd floor)--an exhibit on the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North between 1915 and 1940

    • Communities in a Changing Nation at the National Museum of American History (2nd floor)--an exhibit on the evolution of three American communities and how they have helped shape the American identity

    • A More Perfect Union at the National Museum of American History (3rd floor)--an exhibit on the Japanese Internment during WWII

  • At the National Gallery you might want to check out the following exhibit:

    • Goya: Images of Women focuses Francisco Goya y Lucientes late 18th and early 19th century images of women.

    • A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWittDegas to LeWitt. The most outstanding 20th-century drawings in the National Gallery's collection, including works of Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Jasper Johns.

    • Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Includes preparatory drawings, collages, scale models, and photographs of the artists' large-scale projects, as well as several of Christo's early packages and wrapped objects.

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