Poe's Charleston
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Fort Moultrie
Fort Moultrie
South Carolina
Fort Moultrie is a unit of Fort Sumter National Monument. The site is located on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, SC.
Where The American Civil War Began
Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later. Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back.
Defender of Charleston Harbor
On June 28, 1776, as British warships moved to conquer the South Carolina city of Charleston, Colonel William Moultrie and a force of Patriot soldiers stood behind unfinished palmetto log walls and prepared to defend the city.
Moultrie had been warned by General Charles Lee that the British guns would
knock his fort down around his years, but the fiery officer replied that he would fight from the rubble.
For nine hours Moultrie withstood the fire of nine British warships, returning fire with cannon shots that swept the decks of the enemy vessels. The palmetto logs of Moultrie's fort did not shatter from the impact of British cannon balls, but instead the soft logs absorbed the iron balls much as a
sponge absorbs water.
The flag of the fort was shot down at one point, but Sergeant William Jasper braved a storm of shot and shell to retrieve it and return the colors to their place over the works.
In the end, Moultrie and his men prevailed. The badly battered fleet withdrew and the fort on Sullivan's Island became a landmark of the American Revolution. Named Fort Moultrie in honor of the brave colonel who had defended it in 1776, it is a place of honor for South Carolinians. Moultrie's blue flag with a white crescent in the corner - with the addition of a palmetto tree - was adopted as South Carolina's official state flag.
The original fort was replaced by a newer work in 1798, but that Fort Moultrie was destroyed by a hurricane in 1804. Work on the present structure was completed in 1809.
Held by the U.S. Army for the next fifty years, Fort Moultrie served as a prison for the great Seminole Chief Osceola. He died there and is buried just outside the gate.
Other prominent 19th century individuals who spent time as soldiers at Fort Moultrie included General William Tecumseh Sherman and the noted writer, Edgar Allen Poe.
Evacuated by U.S. troops on December 26, 1860, Fort Moultrie was quickly occupied by Southern forces. Confederate gunners here fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and the fort was one of the few points around the harbor that received return fire from Sumter.
Confederate engineers covered the old brick walls with massive embankments of sand. This proved to be a good tactic when Fort Moultrie, along with nearby Fort Sumter, was bombarded for 20 straight months by Union forces. Unlike Fort Sumter, which was wrecked by the bombardment, Fort Moultrie remains in excellent condition today.
The fort remained an important U.S. military post until the end of World War II and was modernized with each new generation. Today it preserves an array of fortifications ranging from the original brick walls of the 1809 fort to concrete batteries and observation posts used through World War II.
Today Fort Moultrie is the only unit in the National Park system where the entire 190 year history of the U.S. military's coastal defense efforts can be explored.
Part of Fort Sumter National Monument, the fort is located on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.
2017 National Book Festival Gala
Celebrate reading and literacy as Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden hosts presentations by fantasy-sci-fi novelist Diana Gabaldon (Outlander series), historian David McCullough (The American Spirit), children's book author Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code), nonfiction writer Margot Lee Shetterly (Hidden Figures) and thriller writer Scott Turow (Testimony). David Rubenstein, the National Book Festival's leading sponsor, presents the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, to be given posthumously to novelist Denis Johnson, is announced as well.
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2007 Interview with Ella Mae Lentz
Summarized by Joan Naturale. This video is from the Miriam and Kenny Lerner collection. Lentz is interviewed by Miriam Lerner. Lentz discusses ‘Deafhood’, social justice, the Deaf community, colonialism, the popularity and awareness of sign language, stem cells, education of parents with Deaf children, Deaf culture, mainstreaming, captioning and voicing of videos, a Deaf museum imaginative story, her poetry work, Deaf poets, the influence of a Gallaudet professor, John Canney, ASL poetry conferences, and her Deaf school background in Berkley where she was exposed to civil rights protests daily on her treks to school. Visual description: Ella has short gray curly hair and glasses. She is wearing an olive green shirt with 3/4 sleeves.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (often abbreviated as UVA, UVa, Virginia, or The University) is a research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Its initial Board of Visitors included U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. UVA's campus and original course offerings were conceived and designed entirely by Jefferson, and established in 1819. President Monroe was the sitting President of the United States when the university was founded, and previously owned the land and original buildings of Brown College, a residential college at the university.
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00:08:19 2 History
00:08:28 2.1 Early years
00:14:03 2.2 Reputation as urban bohemia
00:23:15 2.3 Postwar
00:31:09 2.4 Preservation
00:34:10 2.4.1 Rezoned areas
00:39:31 2.4.2 NYU dispute
00:41:38 3 Demographics
00:45:56 4 Points of interest
00:50:39 5 Police and crime
00:52:13 6 Fire safety
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Greenwich Village ( GREN-itch, GRIN-, -ij) often referred to by locals as simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, New York City, within Lower Manhattan. Broadly, Greenwich Village is bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.
In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. Groenwijck, one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning Green District), was Anglicized to Greenwich. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School.Greenwich Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization; the four ZIP codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes, with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m2) in 2017.
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00:02:01 1 Geography
00:02:11 1.1 Boundaries
00:03:56 1.2 Grid plan
00:06:55 1.3 Political representation
00:07:23 2 History
00:07:32 2.1 Early years
00:12:23 2.2 Reputation as urban bohemia
00:20:26 2.3 Postwar
00:27:18 2.4 Preservation
00:29:59 2.4.1 Rezoned areas
00:34:45 2.4.2 NYU dispute
00:36:38 3 Demographics
00:40:28 4 Points of interest
00:44:34 5 Police and crime
00:45:56 6 Fire safety
00:46:28 7 Health
00:49:12 8 Post offices and ZIP codes
00:50:26 9 Education
00:52:00 9.1 Schools
00:53:12 9.2 Libraries
00:54:03 10 Transportation
00:55:09 11 Notable residents
00:55:31 12 In popular culture
00:55:41 12.1 Comics
00:56:50 12.2 Film
00:59:59 12.3 Games
01:00:16 12.4 Literature
01:01:53 12.5 Music
01:02:56 12.6 Television
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01:05:57 13 See also
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Greenwich Village ( GREN-itch, GRIN-, -ij) often referred to by locals as simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, New York City, within Lower Manhattan. Broadly, Greenwich Village is bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.
In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. Groenwijck, one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning Green District), was Anglicized to Greenwich. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School.Greenwich Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization; the four ZIP codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes, with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m2) in 2017.
19th century
The 19th century was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, First and Second French, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the United States, the German Empire, the Second French Colonial Empire and the Empire of Japan.
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