“American Architecture” as a Settler Colonial Project
PrincetonCharles L. Davis II is an assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His book manuscript, Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (University of Pittsburgh, 2019) traces the historical integrations of race and style theory in paradigms of “architectural organicism,” or movements that modeled design on the generative principles […]
2020 McMurtry Lecture: Lincoln & Democracy
WebinarAllen Guelzo (Humanities Council; James Madison Program) will deliver this year's lecture online. The word democracy occurs only 137 times in the collected writings of Abraham Lincoln. But nothing for Lincoln could be “as clearly true as the truth of democracy.” So, when the thunderous cloud of Civil War broke over his presidency, Lincoln had […]
