THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

WASHINGTON MONUMENT COMPLETION

The most prominent landmark in Washington, DC, the Washington Monument, stands as the centerpiece of the National Mall. At 555 feet tall, it towers over the skyline as the tallest structure. Authorized by Congress in 1833 and designed by architect Robert Mills, construction began in 1848. In 1854, with the Civil War looming, construction halted for almost 25 years. It took until 1878 for building to resume under the auspices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Marble from two different quarries was used, resulting in a change of color about one-third of the way up. The exterior of the obelisk was finally completed in 1884. President Chester A. Arthur dedicated the landmark in 1885. The interior opened to the public in 1888. Today, an elevator takes visitors on the 70 second trip up to the 500 foot landing for magnificent views of the city.

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ORGINS OF THANKSGIVING

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America. (History.com)

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Emperial Nation: Learning History Through T-Shirts

by Dan Gould

The street wear world is often filled with iconography from pop culture, hip-hop and sports. Since the cultural capital is being sucked dry from these reference points, it’s good to see a company dipping into other pots for graphic inspiration. Emperial Nation makes t-shirts using imagery from historic instances of upheaval including the Civil War, French Revolution, Ottoman Empire, The Wild West and The Gangs of New York. Though some of their subjects are well known, others (such as infamous Five Points gang founder Paul Kelly, seen above) are interesting characters that don’t often appear in the history books. Who’d have thought that a simple t-shirt could teach you a history lesson?

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Emailed on: Tuesday November 18, 2008

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From time immemorial, men have commemorated seminal figures and moments through books, and statues, and other stuff that, if you wore it, would totally chafe your nips. Celebrating history through something more comfortable, Emperial Nation t-shirts.

Inspired by five tumultuous historical periods, EN's the debut line from an eagle-eyed group of NY aesthetes who "noticed a demand...for sophisticated and meaningful designs inspired by historical events" (you're totally kicking yourself for not pouncing on this first). The graphic journey starts with two French Revolution numbers (a gold-inked Napoleon, and a guillotine silhouette) and three Ottoman tees covering the Empire's priceless contributions to culture: lawmaker Constantine XI, a concubine, and a hookah. Stateside, EN covers 20th Century New York crime (gold-framed mugshot of Five Points Gang founder Paul Kelly, burning Model Ts, the ghost of a cop protecting a living comrade as he reloads his rifle) and the Civil War, including a griffin reloading a musket before a purple cannon, and a pixelated photo of the ghost of soldier Andrew Benton, whose lackluster Google search results suggest this memorial tee's about as good as it's gonna get.

EN's tightest U.S. line's Wild West, with pistol-pointing cowboys and a huge graphic of John Salmon Ford, the journalist who coined "R.I.P" -- though Ford'll be resting anything but peacefully once he finds out you haven't washed him in weeks.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the "Gettysburg Address"

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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