USS Harpers Ferry departs from Naval Base San Diego
Credit: Seaman Christopher Veloicaza | Date Taken: 02/12/2016
USS Harpers Ferry departs from Naval Base San Diego a regularly scheduled deployment.
APMEX Silver Coins | 2016 5 oz Silver ATB Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, WV
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is the third release in 2016 of the U.S. Mint's popular America the Beautiful series. Click here to view and purchase these Silver Harper's Ferry Coins.
This coin commemorates the efforts of John Brown and his men capturing the fire house, now known as John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, West Virgina, in an effort to supply weapons for an army of abolitionists. These coins are sought after by investors for their .999 fine Silver content, and demanded by collectors for their artistic value.
Coin Highlights:
Contains 5 oz of .999 fine Silver.
Individual coins come in capsules. Multiples of 10 come in mint-issued tubes without capsules. Orders of 100 come in mint-issued monster boxes also without capsules.
Eligible for Precious Metals IRAs.
Obverse: Portrait of George Washington originally designed by John Flanagan, with the inscriptions of United States of America, Liberty, In God We Trust and Quarter Dollar.
Reverse: Depicts the armory where abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to secure arms and mobilize an abolitionist army deep into the heart of the Old Dominion.
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Harpers Ferry Information
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia was chosen for the America The Beautiful series for its historical significance and beautiful natural surroundings. Declared a National Park in 1963, the park includes the historic town of Harpers Ferry and the surrounding area. Harpers Ferry was also a notable center of industry in the 19th century. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led an armed group in the capture of the armory where he hoped to arm a group of slaves in an attempt to overthrow slavery. The landmark is often seen as one of the early flash points of the Civil War.
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One of the most scenic views in the Eastern United States
An overlook of the Shenandoah River within Harpers Ferry National Historical Park that can allow you to see nearly 50 miles into the Shenandoah Valley on a clear day. These bluffs were fortified by Union forces during the Civil War. January 2013
WN@TL - Mapping Monumental Mysteries:Exploring Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds. Amy Rosebrough. 2018.08.01
Between AD 750 and 1200, communities across much of Wisconsin and portions of adjoining states created earthen burial mounds in the form of animals and spirits—Wisconsin’s famous ‘effigy’ mounds. Thousands of such monuments were created, transforming southern Wisconsin into what some early settlers described as a sculpted landscape. Effigy mounds were built by nearly two dozen communities, many located where Wisconsin’s major cities and towns stand today.
Since their discovery by Euro-American settlers, the mounds have fascinated non-Native peoples. In the late 1800s, a number of eccentric individuals competed to document effigy mounds before the land was broken and developed. The sculpted landscape itself now survives only in the records they left behind, and in fragments saved by early preservationists, rugged terrain, and sympathetic landowners. Today, recent changes in Wisconsin’s burial sites protection law have extended increased protection to the surviving mounds. LiDAR technology has greatly enhanced our ability to locate and monitor damage to the last effigy mounds—while simultaneously changing our interpretations of how effigy building may have come to an end.
Each community seems to have built mounds in its own way, drawing from various artistic and ritual traditions. Though broadly shared enough to comprise a larger Effigy Mound Ceremonial Complex, mound ritual and design varied in discernable ways. Mound form, in particular, reflects the social geography of Wisconsin’s Late Woodland communities, documenting the presence of different social groups in different regions. With the arrival of Middle Mississippian peoples from Cahokia ca. AD 950, some effigy-building communities seem to have retreated and intensified effigy ritual while others quickly abandoned effigy ritual in favor of Cahokian ceremonies and life ways.”
About the Speaker
Dr. Amy L. Rosebrough is a native of the Ozark mountains of southern Missouri who developed an interest in archaeology at a young age. After attending Missouri State University and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, she moved to Madison and received her Doctorate from UW-Madison for her research into spatial patterning in effigy mound symbolism and Late Woodland ceramic design. She currently works as a staff archaeologist in the State Historic Preservation Office of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where she assists landowners, researchers, and archaeological consultants and maintains archaeological components of Wisconsin’s Historic Preservation Database.
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Professor Eric Foner at ACS event The Road from Lincoln to Obama
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University speaks at a January 14, 2009 ACS event.
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The congressionally-declared theme of the inaugural ceremony of President-elect Obama, A New Birth of Freedom, commemorates President Lincoln's vision in the Gettysburg Address. Developing this theme, ACS, together with NAACP LDF, MALDEF and Constitutional Accountability Center, co-sponsored a program on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 entitled The Road from Lincoln to Obama: The Constitution and the New Birth of Freedom. Leading historians, constitutional law experts and civil rights leaders discussed how the new birth of freedom that Lincoln spoke of at Gettysburg took form in the Civil War Amendments, which protected liberty and equality, how those Amendments have been interpreted (and in some cases misinterpreted) since their ratification, and how their promise can be fulfilled today.
The 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - from Deadly Shootouts
A detailed accounting of the Wednesday October 26th 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral which took place in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other.
This is a showcase of our Historical Recreations work for the limited TV-Series Deadly Shootouts.” Dramatic Recreations produced by LionHeart FilmWorks and directed by Kevin R. Hershberger. Costumes by Historical Wardrobe of Richmond, Virginia.
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Copper Creek Trestles Trains and Surroundings Speers Ferry VA between Gate City and Duffield
Opening shots of the video show the setting, then there is a sharp angle view of a train on the high trestle high above, after that we cut to a siding a few miles away where an coal train of empties (not shown at that point ) waits for a full train which we see has been aided by helper locomotives, a short clip of the helper engines returning, then back to the trestle, for the final clips of that coal train of empties that had been waiting goes over the lower trestle, and a different train passes over the high trestle.
In Virginia along US highway 23 there is between Gate City, VA and Duffield, VA there is a scenic overlook that overlooks a pair of trestles, actually for much of the year only one high trestle that can be seen, as the lower trestle is blocked by trees that grow alongside the Clinch river. The trestles don’t span the Clinch river, they span the mouth of a valley through which Copper Creek runs (and therefore Copper Creek is spanned too). If the Clinch River sounds like a familiar name, perhaps it is because many folks have heard of the Clinchfield Railroad The following details are given on a “place of interest type of marker” at the overlook, which reads
The Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway built the taller of the two structures which stand before you in 1908. At 167 feet over the Copper Creek-Clinch River junction, the Copper Creek Viaduct was then one of the tallest railroad bridges in the eastern United States. Construction of this trestle - and many other bridges and fifty-five tunnels - by the CC&O opened up coal deposits in Virginia and Kentucky via a superbly engineered direct rail route to numerous cities in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Prior to its completion, alternate rail routes to these markets were over one hundred miles longer and featured some of the steepest grades in the United States.
More than a century later this viaduct is still a vital link in the rail network of Clinchfield's successor company, CSX Transportation. An average of 18 to 24 coal trains currently pass daily over this bridge, keeping the lights on in such major cities as Charlotte, Columbia, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Charleston. Northbound coal empties are returning to the rich coal seams of Eastern Kentucky, Virginia, and Southern West Virginia. Additional trains carrying general merchandise, grain, plastics, lumber, chemicals, and aggregates also pass over this trestle.
The lower bridge was constructed by the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad around 1890 and is currently owned by Norfolk Southern Corporation. Close to one hundred per cent of the business handled by Norfolk Southern consists of both empty and loaded coal cars to and from Virginia coal mines. Contractual agreements between CSX and Norfolk Southern, though they are competitors, allow each to use the other's tracks, so trains of both railroads can often be seen on either of the Copper Creek trestles.
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Segways Come to West Virginia's Stonewal Resort
The individualized transport of the Segway is usually associated with urban environments. But since the arrival of seven Segways at Stonewall Resort in Roanoake, W.Va., you can Segway your way through the hills and trails of the Mountain State. This Sunday Gazette-Mail video takes you through a Segway class at the resort, culminating in a dash onto trails and into the woods.
From Rick Steelhammer's companion article:
Everyone who has been on one of our Segways has really enjoyed the experience, said Jennifer Nelson, who leads hourlong tours aboard the two-wheeled electric vehicles starting from Stonewall Resort's new Roanoke Activities Plaza. Each group of riders is a little different in how fast they pick it up, and how much they want to do ...
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
00:00:44 1 Brown's preparation
00:04:05 2 Advance knowledge of raid
00:06:59 3 The raid
00:07:08 3.1 October 16
00:08:40 3.2 October 17
00:10:29 3.3 October 18
00:12:41 3.4 October 19
00:13:30 4 Aftermath
00:16:31 5 Casualties
00:16:40 5.1 John Brown's raiders
00:22:05 5.2 Others
00:23:00 6 Liberated slaves
00:23:20 7 Legacy
00:23:29 7.1 Heritage Area
00:24:01 7.2 In Popular Culture
00:24:44 8 See also
00:25:00 9 Notes
00:25:09 9.1 Citations
00:25:17 10 Further reading
00:27:41 11 External links
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry) was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Colonel Robert E. Lee was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his transformative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid, but Tubman was prevented by illness and Douglass declined, as he believed Brown's plan would fail.
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The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)
Professor Blight narrates the momentous events of 1857, 1858, and 1859. The lecture opens with an analysis of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Next, Blight analyzes the Dred Scott decision and discusses what it meant for northerners--particularly African Americans--to live in the land of the Dred Scott decision. The lecture then shifts to John Brown. Professor Blight begins by discussing the way that John Brown has been remembered in art and literature, and then offers a summary of Brown's life, closing with his raid on Harpers Ferry in October of 1859.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
04:04 - Chapter 2. A House Divided: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
10:12 - Chapter 3. Implications of the Dred Scott Decision and the Panic of 1857
23:48 - Chapter 4. John Brown: His Early Life and Beliefs
45:13 - Chapter 5. Planning the Raid on Harpers Ferry
50:34 - Chapter 6. Brown's Capture and Conclusion
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Effigy Mounds flyover
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MOOC | The Mexican War & Expansion of Slavery | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1861 | 1.4.1
Discover how the issue of slavery came to dominate American politics, and how political leaders struggled and failed to resolve the growing crisis in the nation.
A House Divided: The Road to Civil War, 1850-1861, is a course that begins by examining how generations of historians have explained the crisis of the Union. After discussing the institution of slavery and its central role in the southern and national economies, it turns to an account of the political and social history of the 1850s. It traces how the issue of the expansion of slavery came to dominate national politics, and how political leaders struggled, unsuccessfully, to resolve the growing crisis. We will examine the impact of key events such as Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, and end with the dissolution of the Union in the winter of 1860-1861.
This course is part of the series, The Civil War and Reconstruction, which introduces students to the most pivotal era in American history. The Civil War transformed the nation by eliminating the threat of secession and destroying the institution of slavery. It raised questions that remain central to our understanding of ourselves as a people and a nation — the balance of power between local and national authority, the boundaries of citizenship, and the meanings of freedom and equality. The series will examine the causes of the war, the road to secession, the conduct of the Civil War, the coming of emancipation, and the struggle after the war to breathe meaning into the promise of freedom for four million emancipated slaves. One theme throughout the series is what might be called the politics of history — how the world in which a historian lives affects his or her view of the past, and how historical interpretations reinforce or challenge the social order of the present.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the most prominent historians in the United States. Professor Foner is the author or editor of over twenty books concentrating on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history and the history of American race relations. His recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!: An American History, a widely-used survey textbook of U. S. history published by W. W. Norton. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. He is one of only two persons ever to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Society of American Historians. As co-curator of two award-winning historical exhibitions, and through frequent appearances in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television discussion programs, he has also endeavored to bring historical knowledge to a broad public outside the university.
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