Our Town: Huntingdon (1997)
John C. Frémont | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...
Disability History Video Exhibit Timeline
The Disability History Exhibit was created by Advocating Change Together as a museum quality display. Twenty three beautifully crafted panels bring viewers through an illustrated timeline showing society’s attitudes and how they affect the lives of people with disabilities. Video versions of each panel were created by Portland Community College Disability Services in partnership with our Multimedia Program. The videos feature the voices of our students and are all captioned. Note that an accessible html version of the exhibit is also available online.
Disability History Exhibit Video Series Credits
Executive Producer
Kaela Parks
Producer
Seth Bloombaum
Video Animation & Editing
Shelly Strunk
Closed Captioning Coordination
Donna Wolf
Administration
Cathy Murphy
Narrators
Kelly Clifton
Laura DiMare Alpizar
Gretchen Fargher
Will Maybury
Ramon McPherson
Seth Bloombaum
Special thanks to
Don Thompson, Studio Engineering Support
Mary Kadderly, performance of “Cripple Lullaby”
and
Portland Community College’s
Professional Music Program &
Multimedia Program
Books that Shaped America: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
University Professor of History Alan Kraut reprises his discussion of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for a special All American Weekend event. 10/22/16
4K 30fps: OTIS Hydraulic Scenic Elevator At Granite Street Parking Garage - Prescott, Arizona
This is the 30fps version of the 4K video that was recorded in 60fps. Here is the link to the original 60fps video for supported devices:
Brand: OTIS
Type: Hydraulic
Capacity: 2500 lbs.
Fixtures: Series 5
Motor: Unknown
Total Floors: 5 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Atlantic Elevator At Penthouse North,Deerfield Beach Fl
DO NOT GO HERE!!!! I WAS LUCKY!!!! There's a sign that says no trespassing. Violators will be prosecuted. Nice elevator though.
Jamal Cyrus Close to Home
In this talk, Cyrus will discuss his approach to materials (often employing the commonplace) and his research into and interest in issues of site and history, culture and geography. A member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates, Cyrus' work has been featured in national and international venues, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp; the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; The Kitchen, New York; the Museum of London Docklands, London; the New Museum, New York; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Presented in support of the Ulrich exhibition, looking at the overlooked, on view September 9-December 10, 2017.
Funding for this program is provided by the Kansas Humanities Council, a nonprofit cultural organization that connects communities with history, traditions, and ideas to strengthen civic life.
How to take the NYC subway from Laguardia Airport to Times Square in Manhattan in 2019
Follow me as I take public transportation to Times Square in Manhattan from Laguardia airport in Queens. I'll take the Q70 Laguardia Link bus which connects LGA directly to the Jackson Heights Roosevelt Avenue station where I transfer to the R train, but you can also transfer to the E, M, F, or 7 trains at the same station. You can get a free downloadable guide of all these steps to use while you're here at:
Video was shot on an iPhone 6S with an Osmo Mobile
2018 Bowen Lecture with Craig Steven Wilder - Colleges & Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Craig Steven Wilder is currently the Barton L. Weller Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is a historian of American institutions and ideas. Professor Wilder’s most recent book is Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.
For more than 90 years, Claremont Graduate University has been a leader in graduate education. 40 master’s and 19 doctoral degree fields. Limited enrollment, renowned faculty, and small class sizes devoted entirely to graduate study. At CGU we put students first.
WHAT LIES HAVE YOU BEEN TAUGHT? Full Panel Discussion
AACC Phi Theta Kappa Omicron Theta Chapter hosted this panel discussion entitled What Lies Have You Been Taught? The discussion concentrated on the evidence of bias in how students learned about the Civil War in Maryland and Virginia. This is the culmination of the chapter's Honors in Action project. Panelists included Dr. Russell Rockefeller, Dr. Lester Brooks, Dr. Mary McKiel and John Grady.
Recorded Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Humanities 112.
Benjamin Franklin | Wikipedia audio article
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Benjamin Franklin
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania.Franklin earned the title of The First American for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat. To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette at the age of 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he authored under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of British policies.
He pioneered and was first president of Academy and College of Philadelphia which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected president in 1769. Franklin became a national hero in America as an agent for several colonies when he spearheaded an effort in London to have the Parliament of Great Britain repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing shipments of crucial munitions from France.
He was promoted to deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, having been Philadelphia postmaster for many years, and this enabled him to set up the first national communications network. During the revolution, he became the first United States Postmaster General. He was active in community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. He initially owned and dealt in slaves but, by the 1750s, he argued against slavery from an economic perspective and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored more than two centuries after his death on coinage and the $100 bill, warships, and the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as countless cultural references.
Archaeology and Futurity Conference Session 1: Archaeologies of/in Crisis and Conflict
Friday, April 15, 2016
Session 1: Archaeologies of/in Crisis and Conflict
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
In a particularly troubling academic climate that is witnessing departmental amalgamation and a relative dearth in full-time faculty hires, how does the discipline of archaeology envision its future? What is its role beyond the walls of the academy? Should archaeology be useful and, if so, for what purposes? This conference addresses archaeology’s potential role in contributing to pressing world problems including climate change, economic inequality, human rights, neocolonialism, and militarism.
This conference also seeks to address how futurity plays a role in how archaeologists confront the past in the present. Through a departure from linear time, this conference will explore alternative notions of time, material vestiges of the past in the present, and embodied experiences that transcend temporalities. If we accept that archaeology is a discipline about the present, how are we to think about time and futurity?
Session Participants:
LouAnn Wurst (Michigan Technical University)
Should Archaeology Have a Future?
Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University)
Archaeological Revelations in the Enduring Post-Colonial/Post-Conflict State
Dimitris Papadopoulos (Columbia University)
Suspended Landscapes: Crisis, Urgency and Materiality at the Margins of Europe
**Some images used by presenters are copyrighted materials NOT owned by individual presenters. In these cases, images are depicted under the terms of fair use.
Toledo Hydraulic Elevator at Cabela's in Dundee, MI
Very basic generic elevator.
Mobile Documentaries
Panel Overview, Marc Ruppel, National Endowment for the Humanities
Michael Epstein, Walking Cinema
Shannon Carroll, Vivid Story
C. Morgan Grefe, Rhode Island Historical Society / Rhode Tour
Monica Muñoz Martinez, Refusing to Forget
Panel discussion moderated by Marc Ruppel
September 25, 2015 at Avon Cinema, Providence, RI
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Kentucky | Wikipedia audio article
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Kentucky
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Kentucky ( (listen) kən-TUK-ee), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the State of Kentucky in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.
Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, moonshine, coal, the My Old Kentucky Home historic national park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, college basketball, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Gordon Wood - Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
The James Madison Program's Annual Constitution Day Event
Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor; Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Down these Mean Streets Poetry Reading
Conference: “Redefining Urban Design: Barcelona as Case Study Part 2
The theme of this conference is the extent to which new, emerging issues are changing the principles of urban design and its practice at the scale of the city and territory. Topics to be explored include the future of the traditional city and modern districts constructed thus far; the new urban forms that have come into being along with the innovation economy; the potential influence of the hypermobility that global centers appear to promote; and forms of economic and urban development that may have been neglected amid the models of the widespread growth of housing and infrastructure that were so influential in the twentieth century.
By considering several different issues in Barcelona, including case studies in the concurrent exhibition Barcelona: Metropolis of Cities, the conference aims not only to examine the urban transformation of that city since the 1980s but also to reflect on how its recent history may shed light on the urban development of other cities across the globe. The conference will thus explore a new dimension of the urban design project as such, in which multidisciplinary reflections on the similarities and differences between a specific case study and innovative trends in other cities may disclose new fields for reflection, orientation, and coordination of the various disciplines and scales involved in the design and management of the city. Organized by Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design.
MFA Products of Design 2016: Thesis Show
13:30 Opening Remarks, Allan Chochinov
Group 1
36:42 Marianna Mezhibovskaya, Outsiders: Designing Engagement with the Incarcerated
51:24 Adem Önalan, Vakit: On the Elasticity and Subjectivity of Time
1:07:38 Leila Santiago de Oliveira Santos, Here, There & Elsewhere - A Design Journey around Travel and Place
1:21:45 Isioma Iyamah, In Flux: Identities Under the Influence
1:35:22 Oscar De La Hera Gomez, Marrying the Physical & the Emotional in Order to Process Trauma
1:49:37 Hung Wan Jung, Do It Now: Overcoming Procrastination
2:04:49 Eden Lew - Masterminds & The Art of Misbehaving
Group 2
2:45:33 Souvik Paul - Unbound: Psychophysical Design for Paralysis and Disability
3:01:00 Judy Chi - Permanism: Towards the Obsolescence of Disposable Furniture
3:17:29 Chelsea Stewart - Atto: An Exploration of Movement and Design
3:29:03 Belen Tenorio - ReMind: Re-evaluating ADD and ADHD in a Quick-Fix Societ
3:42:51 Lijia Yang - Reload: Triggering your Passion for Life and Gamification
3:59:05 Roya Ramezani - Exponent: Amplifying Female Voices in Tech Discourse
4:13:12 Natsuki Hayashi - Sincerely, Toward a Contemporary Design of Assisted Suicide
Group 3
5:02:09 Panisa Khunprasert - Hereafter: Remapping the Landscape of Death and the Way It is Remembered
5:16:56 Ziyun Qi - Animate: Bringing Charm and Magic to the Everyday Life
5:30:34 Adam Fujita - XENO: From the Foreign to the Familiar
5:45:32 Louise-Anne van 't Riet - Side Step: A Momentary Escape From the Real World
6:01:07 Tahnee Pantig - This Great Violence
6:16:31 Jonathan Lung - At the Ready: Preparation for Just About Anything
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The MFA Products of Design Masters Thesis is a unique, year-long design pursuit that investigates a chosen subject matter or territory. Student work is instantiated through speculative design; expert research; product prototyping; information architecture; service, interaction, and experience design; user testing; branding, and business modeling. Valuing the strategic, the social, and the environmental, the thesis stands as a testament to the need for a holistic and critical approach to creating the products of design.
Thyssenkrupp Hydraulic Elevator at Village Theatre in Highl
Thyssenkrupp Elevator Video