The Thomas Jefferson Building: Secret Messages Students explore the Library's historic Thomas Jefferson building to discover some of the unusual objects in and around. From Fantasy to Flight. Use these Resources from the Library of Congress documenting the history of flight the dreams, fantasies, experimentation and inventions that came before and after the historic achievement of the Wright. Gwendolyn Wright is an award-winning architectural historian, author, and co-host of the PBS. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. 1981 (1983 paperback). New York: Pantheon (MIT Press paperback). ISBN 978-0-394-50371-4.

About Building The Dream For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves?

Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century?

How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define “family.”. Table Of Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL ORDER 1 1. The Puritan Way of Life 3 PART TWO: STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM 19 2. Row Upon Row in the Commercial City 24 3. The “Big House” and the Slave Quarters 41 4.

Housing Factory Workers 58 5. Independence and the Rural Cottage 73 PART THREE: ACCOMMODATIONS FOR AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 91 6. Victorian Suburbs and the Cult of Domesticity 96 7. Americanization and Ethnicity in Urban Tenements 114 8. The Advantages of Apartment Life 135 PART FOUR: DOMESTICATION OF MODERN LIVING 153 9. The Progressive Housewife and the Bungalow 158 10.

Welfare Capitalism and the Company Town 177 11. Planned Residential Communities 193 PART FIVE: GOVERNMENT STANDARDS FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES 215 12. Public Housing for the Worthy Poor 220 13. The New Suburban Expansion and the American Dream 240 14. A super hindi 10 fonts. Preserving Homes and Promoting Change 262 Notes 285 Further Reading 302 Index 319.