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Exhibition Reviews
"Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America." Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540-4570.
Temporary exhibition, July 24Nov.
29, 2003. 600 sq. ft. Ronald Grim, principal curator; Gerald Gawalt,
curator; Rosemary Fry Plakas, curator; Chermayeff & Geismar, exhibition
design; Cheryl Regan, exhibition director; Debbie Durbeck, production
officer; Christopher O'Connor, lead exhibition production specialist;
Betsy Nahum-Miller, online exhibition coordinator; Tambra Johnson,
registrar; Susan Mordan, education specialist; James P. Ronda, John
Logan Allen, and Carolyn Gilman, consultants.
Public programs included a film series, teachers' institutes, and scholarly symposia.
Internet: checklist of the exhibition and other interpretive materials <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/> (April 2, 2004).
"Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West." Organized
by the Washington State Historical Society, 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma,
WA 98402; with the Kansas Historical Society, U.S. Army Center of
Military History, Virginia Historical Society, and Frontier Army
Museum.
Traveling exhibition, July 1Dec.
31, 2003, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.; Feb. 14Oct.
31, 2004, Washington State Historical Museum, Tacoma, Wash.; Dec.
10, 2004Aug. 14, 2005, Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, Kans.;
Oct. 8Dec. 31, 2005, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis,
Mo.; beginning April 2006, Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth,
Kans. John W. Listman Jr., managing curator; Redmond J. Barnett,
project manager; Threshold Studio, exhibition design; James P. Ronda,
consulting historian; Stephanie Lile, coordinator; AnnMarie Price,
registrar; Lynette Miller, image acquisition; Mary Madden, educational
publications; Steven M. Bavisotto, contracting officer.
Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West. By James P. Ronda. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. 106 pp. $14.95, ISBN 0-295-98356-6.)
Internet: visitor information, account of army exploration, Washington State Historical Society <http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshm/exhibit-blc.htm> (April 1, 2004); Kansas Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission <http://www. lewisandclarkinkansas.com/exhibits.html> (April 1, 2004).
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| On June 20, 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Capt. Meriwether Lewis outlining the goals of an expedition into the interior of the country. "The object of your mission," it began, "is to explore the Missouri River,... it's course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean...." And the rest, as they say, is history. |
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The depiction of this history in the current bicentenary celebrations of the expedition involves many exhibitions, publications, and spectacles. Two of the more scholarly affairs are the exhibition at the Library of Congress entitled "Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America" and the traveling exhibition entitled "Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West," which was organized by the Washington State Historical Society, together with the Kansas Historical Society, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Frontier Army Museum. |
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