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    Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity

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    Dodd, Virginia
    Abstract
    The knowledge that Washington was a city for all Americans and a representative of the ideals and values of this country drove the members of the Senate Park Commission to make Washington the most beautiful, the most healthful, and the most successful city in the nation. In their manufacture of a comprehensive plan for the city, they were influenced by District residents and citizens nationwide alike, and they were under an immense amount of pressure, personal, political, and professional, to present a product of unrivaled quality and expertise. This paper argues that as citizens shaped the District into their idea of an ideal capital, they revealed deep-seated values, including the importance of education, the efficacy of social activism, and the value of nature, which have become fundamental aspects of a uniquely American identity. Chapter 1 summarizes the field of Washingtoniana study and presents the sense of historical discomfort surrounding the capital's ambiguous aesthetic identity. Chapter 2 follows the rise of Americans' patriotic loyalty to their capital city in the first hundred years of its existence. Chapter 3 examines the national and local reform movements that fed the Senate Park Commission's thrust toward the ideal city and society, and Chapter 4 explores how the Plan's reform initiatives specifically altered the capital's foundational plan and legitimized its American loyalties. As a study of the capital district, this paper attempts to extrapolate meaning from the Senate Park Commission's plan for Washington in order to better understand American identity.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3852
    Subject
     History; American history; Urban planning; District of Columbia; McMillan Plan; Park planning 
    Date
    2012
    Citation:
    APA:
    Dodd, Virginia. (January 2012). Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3852.)

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    Dodd, Virginia. Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2012. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3852. August 11, 2022.
    Chicago:
    Dodd, Virginia, “Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2012).
    AMA:
    Dodd, Virginia. Progressive Politics, the McMillan Plan, and the Expression of an American Identity [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2012.
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    East Carolina University

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