Tiffany Momon & Victoria Hensley | Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
The BCDA, a nationally-celebrated project changing the face of decorative arts and material culture scholarship, recently expanded the archive into Te...
Polk's America
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This podcast examines the life, times, and controversies surrounding the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk. The Polk's America lecture series was established in 1998 and features a new expert, historian, or museum specialist each month. Born in 1795, James Polk served 7 terms as a US Congressman, twice as Speaker of the House, the governor of Tennessee, and was the infamous Dark Horse candidate for president in 1844. Though he served one term (as a campaign promise), he oversaw the greatest expansion of US territory in United States history, the first US invasion of another country, and established the independent treasury.
Tiffany Momon & Victoria Hensley | Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
The BCDA, a nationally-celebrated project changing the face of decorative arts and material culture scholarship, recently expanded the archive into Te...
Sally Givens | South Union Shaker Village
The Shakers' American utopian experiment succeeded in creating an egalitarian culture contrary to societal norms in Polk's America. In 1807 ...
Sally Givens | South Union Shaker Village
The Shakers' American utopian experiment succeeded in creating an egalitarian culture contrary to societal norms in Polk's America. In 1807 ...
Alba Campo Rosillo | G. P. A. Healy's Portraits of the President
When U.S. artist George Peter Alexander Healy (1913-1894) painted the portrait of James Polk for the first time in 1846, the sitter was the President ...
Alba Campo Rosillo | G. P. A. Healy's Portraits of the President
When U.S. artist George Peter Alexander Healy (1913-1894) painted the portrait of James Polk for the first time in 1846, the sitter was the President ...
Katherine Hughes | David Drake and Edgefield Stoneware in Polk's America
In the early 1800s, South Carolinian businesses used enslaved labor to create a booming stoneware pottery industry in the Edgefield District. The arti...
Katherine Hughes | David Drake and Edgefield Stoneware in Polk's America
In the early 1800s, South Carolinian businesses used enslaved labor to create a booming stoneware pottery industry in the Edgefield District. The arti...
Brenda Hornsby-Heindl | Creating the Kitchen Garden
Consultant Brenda Hornsby Heindl shares her research behind the creation of a c. 1820 kitchen garden at the President James K. Polk Home & Museum. The...
Brenda Hornsby-Heindl | Creating the Kitchen Garden
Consultant Brenda Hornsby Heindl shares her research behind the creation of a c. 1820 kitchen garden at the President James K. Polk Home & Museum. The...