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It was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (History, 2013) [39] and was named one of the Christian Science Monitor 's 15 best nonfiction books in 2013. [40] In 2016, she appeared, as herself, in the fifth episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke, [41] and she made a cameo appearance playing herself as a teacher in the Simpsons episode ...
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (1966–73) American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (1973–76) The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic.
The medal produced from Saint-Gaudens certainly held a superior art aesthetic in comparison to the original medal produced by the Inaugural Committee. One side of the medal displays a distinguished portrait of Roosevelt and the other side holds a high-relief eagle. This is the same eagle that is later used for the $10 coins produced by the U.S ...
President Obama wrongly attributed the sentence to Angelou during the presentation of the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal. [56] 2017 Residence hall named in Angelou's honor at Wake Forest University. The first building at Wake Forest named for an African-American and the second named for a female faculty member. [57] 2018
Ralph J. Menconi (June 17, 1915 – November 18, 1972) was a prominent sculptor and medallist, who received many accolades during his lifetime. Among them were the Ellen P. Speyer award for original sculpture in 1941, the Freedom Foundation Award, the Michelangelo Award, the American Numismatic Association's Sculptor of the Year award in 1970, and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy ...
The 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts recipients include hip-hop stars ... Harjo was named the inaugural artist in residence ... Harjo is the author of 10 books of poetry and three award-win ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George H. W. Bush (January 18, 1993) [9] Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom by Republican U.S. senators [10] Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion by the Czech Republic (1999) [11] Order of the White Eagle by Polish President Lech Kaczyński (July 10, 2007) (in-memoriam) [12]
The States and the Nation series is a book series published in celebration of the United States Bicentennial by W. W. Norton & Company regarding the states of the United States of America. The first volume was published in 1975 and volumes continued to appear until 1984. [1]