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August Brown Bag Series Explores Capitol, Metro, and Art O ur annual August brown bag lecture series drew on the work of USCHS staff, Capitol Fellows, and longtime friends of the Society to give attendees a look at several different facets of the Capitol and the capital city. On August 1, Capitol Fellow Debra Hanson examined "Daniel Boone in the Capitol" by connecting Boone's various depictions in Capitol art to changing understanding and depictions of westward expansion in the nineteenth-century United States. Boone's idealized image portrayed, at different times, an Indian fighter, a pathfinder or trailblazer, and a forest philosopher. On August 21, USCHS Associate Historian William diGiacomantonio brought the discussion back to Capitol artwork with an impres- William diGiacomantonio sionistic tour through the National Statuary Hall Collection. During his work on a book about the collection for USCHS, DiGiacomantonio has noticed themes and groups of questions that can help us dig deeper into the portraits in the collection, Mark Ozer including interrogating states' motivations in choosing honorees, relationships between artists and subjects, and the collection's role as a custodian of other cultures, particularly in its depictions of Native Americans. Don Hawkins On August 7, Mark Ozer discussed what he learned about public transportation in Washington, DC while he researched his most recent book on the Metro system. His talk focused on the way that some metro lines followed the older trolley lines and some of the ways that metro stations have affected the neighborhoods that surround them. Don Hawkins, a Capitol Fellow, explored the early years of the capital city and visualizaDebra Hanson tions of the Capitol on maps and in the 1792 design contest. A more 4 THE CAPITOL DOME detailed version of his talk appeared in the Summer 2013 special edition of The Capitol Dome, which is available on our website, www.uschs.org. C-SPAN recorded all four talks, which are now available in the C-SPAN archives at http://c-spanvideo.org/. You can search by the speakers' names, or search for "U.S. Capitol Historical Society" to find all our talks in the archives; then, use the date filter to find the August talks. 2014 USCHS CAPITOL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Applications are requested for the 2014 United States Capitol Historical Society Capitol Fellowship Program. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2014, with the start date for fellowship awards in September 2014. Full details of the program and instructions for applying can be found under the History tab on www.uschs.org. Inaugurated in 1986, the Capitol Fellowship Program has provided financial support to more than fifty scholars researching important topics in the art and architectural history of the United States Capitol Complex. Fellowship support permits scholars—selected on the basis of their qualifications and research proposals—to use the extensive documents housed in the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. The Fellowship is funded by the United States Capitol Historical Society and jointly administered by the Architect of the Capitol. A full listing of fellowship awards, 1986 through 2013, can be found under the History tab on www.uschs.org. FALL 2013