American Man

When I skimmed the article about Charles Willson Peale, I was really excited to go and see his artwork. He had the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe support his artwork, that is something that probably 99% of the people who ever lived could say. He was also able to set up his museum in Independence Hall, which was the most famous building of the time. That's how well respected he was and just how smart he was. After seeing his artwork and hearing the history behind him, I thought about what Glassberg said about how memories get selected for us. I thought about Political and Place for this museum. He wanted the people to see the evolution of the country through the most prominent people of the Revolutionary Period. He only painted people who mattered and fit his "type" of male. White, wealthy, upper class. Also, the place. All these men shaped the country into what we know as the United States. Whether it was Science, Business, War, Philosophy, these men all did something that was worth recognition in United States history. One of the things that I really liked about this place was, they had both something about the person and something about an event significant related to the persons field. For example, John Marshall had a plaque for just him and also something that had to do with the Supreme Court, so it wasn't just about him. You learned about the person and at the same time about the field in which the person was important to. Going back to the sections, I really liked how they broke the people into them. You learned a lot more about the person and even more about the history behind the section they were broken down too. Overall, I really liked this place because it holds so much of the nations history, with just portraits of the people.