Visit North Dakota Heritage Center, Museum in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
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Basin Electric supports North Dakota Heritage Center expansion
In a celebration of history and an exciting new chapter for the future, groundbreaking ceremonies were held today for the North Dakota Heritage Center expansion project. The $52 million project will nearly double the size of the current facility with the addition of 97,000 square feet.
Located on the state capitol grounds, the ND Heritage Center is the headquarters of the state's history agency, the State Historical Society of North Dakota. It is also the state's history museum, and its largest museum.
Basin Electric contributed $500,000 toward the project.
In the video below, you can see remarks from some of today's speakers:
ND Governor John Hoeven
Former Governor William Guy
Former First Lady Grace Link
Former Governor Allen Olson
Former Governor Ed Schafer
Basin Electric's Mike Eggl
Director of the ND Dept. of Mineral Resources Lynn Helms
Owen Piehl, who testified during the 2009 Legislature
Executive Director of the Foundation Virginia Nelson
Keelboat Park on Missouri River
This video taken 6-13-15 is about Keelboat Park on Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota. Video taken with Yuneec Q500 and edited in iMovie.
I Make America 2018 Town Hall Tour (Bismarck, ND)
The I Make America Town Hall Tour made its second stop on Thursday, August 16, at the Doosan Bobcat Acceleration Center in Bismarck, North Dakota. For more details and to watch the full town hall video visit
Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Minnesota
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Capital: Saint Paul
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Minimum wage: 7.75 USD per hour (1 Aug 2016)
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Prairie Pulse 1034; Eileen Lisko; Jamestown Area Grief Support Team
Eileen Lisko with the Jamestown Area Grief Support Team. She, along with others, established this network 11 years ago to help area residents deal with grief and loss of all kind. Also, Willmar, Minnesota sculptor Fred Cogelow is profiled as he displays his impressive work.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
Funded in part by the North Dakota Humanities Council, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the website do not necessarily reflect those of the North Dakota Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
German Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:44 1 History
00:03:29 1.1 Colonial era
00:04:49 1.1.1 Palatines
00:06:49 1.1.2 Louisiana
00:08:47 1.1.3 Southeast
00:10:49 1.1.4 New England
00:11:23 1.1.5 Pennsylvania
00:13:54 1.2 American Revolution
00:14:53 1.3 19th century
00:16:09 1.3.1 Jews
00:17:09 1.3.2 Northeastern cities
00:17:25 1.3.3 Cities of the Midwest
00:19:08 1.3.4 Deep South
00:19:22 1.3.5 Texas
00:21:29 1.3.6 Germans from Russia
00:24:18 1.3.7 Civil War
00:25:53 1.3.8 Farmers
00:28:05 1.3.9 Politics
00:30:20 1.4 World Wars
00:30:28 1.4.1 Intellectuals
00:31:41 1.4.2 World War I anti-German sentiment
00:33:56 1.4.3 World War II
00:35:47 1.5 Contemporary period
00:37:35 2 Demographics
00:38:17 2.1 German-American communities
00:38:47 2.1.1 Communities with highest percentages of people of German ancestry
00:40:45 2.1.2 Large communities with high percentages of people of German ancestry
00:41:38 2.1.3 Communities with the most residents born in Germany
00:45:22 3 Counties by percentages of Germans
00:54:17 4 Culture
00:55:39 4.1 Music
00:58:24 4.2 Turners
00:59:31 4.3 Media
01:02:03 4.4 Athletics
01:02:55 4.5 Religion
01:06:27 4.6 Language
01:09:01 5 Assimilation
01:09:10 5.1 Introduction
01:09:29 5.2 The apparent disappearance of German American identity
01:22:22 5.3 Factors making German Americans susceptible to assimilation
01:31:32 5.4 Persistence of unassimilated German Americans
01:34:12 6 German-American influence
01:38:24 7 Education
01:38:55 8 Notable people
01:42:46 8.1 German-American presidents
01:43:32 9 See also
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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. German-Americans account for about one third of the total ethnic German population in the world.None of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s, the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million German Americans, reflecting a jump of 6 million people since 2000.
There is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia), founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry.
They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Germany by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America.The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Am ...
The 2018 National Memorial Day Parade - Live Stream
Now in its 14th year, the National Memorial Day Parade highlights American honor and sacrifice from across generations. The parade is the largest Memorial Day event in the country, and calls attention to the true meaning of the holiday - honoring our nation's fallen heroes.
For more information, visit nationalmemorialdayparade.com
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Standing with Standing Rock: Allyship and the Environment
March 13, 2019
Speakers: Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, director of the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College & Rachel Waters, graduate student at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs
The Dakota Access Pipeline protests, also known as #NODAPL or the Standing Rock protests, began after Energy Transfer Partners gained approval to build a pipeline running from Bakken oil fields in North Dakota down to Illinois, passing beneath near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Its construction results in devastating environmental impact and threatens the region's waters as well as ancient burial grounds and sacred sites. In reaction, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe began a series of grassroots movements against the pipeline's constructions, and were joined by protestors from across the country. The presenters will address the ongoing resistance movements lead by indigenous people and allies of different cultures and faiths not only at Standing Rock but also around other sites of possible oil pipelines and where resource extracting threatens land, water, sacred sites and lives.
Part of the Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture Series
Part of the KHC/NEH 2018-19 Colloquium
Survivance on Turtle Island: Engaging with Native American Cultural Survival, Resistance, and Allyship
Richard Mentor Johnson | Wikipedia audio article
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Richard Mentor Johnson
00:02:45 1 Early life and education
00:05:03 2 Career
00:05:34 3 Marriage and family
00:10:37 4 Political career
00:10:47 4.1 Early years
00:15:51 4.2 War of 1812
00:16:00 4.2.1 Initial service
00:19:21 4.2.2 Battle of the Thames
00:23:34 4.2.3 Return to Washington
00:25:20 4.3 Post-war career in the House
00:31:46 4.4 Senator
00:31:55 4.4.1 Monroe years (1819–1825)
00:37:09 4.4.2 Adams opponent (1825–1829)
00:42:14 4.5 Return to the House
00:44:37 4.6 Election of 1836
00:48:25 4.7 Vice presidency
00:50:23 4.8 Election of 1840
00:52:06 5 Later life and death
00:54:01 6 Legacy
00:54:39 7 See also
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- Socrates
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Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780[a] – November 19, 1850) was the ninth Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He is the only vice president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; he began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1806. He became allied with fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay as a member of the War Hawks faction that favored war with Britain in 1812. At the outset of the War of 1812, Johnson was commissioned a colonel in the Kentucky Militia and commanded a regiment of mounted volunteers from 1812 to 1813. He and his brother James served under William Henry Harrison in Upper Canada. Johnson participated in the Battle of the Thames. Some reported that he personally killed the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, which he later used to his political advantage.
After the war, Johnson returned to the House of Representatives. The legislature appointed him to the Senate in 1819 to fill the seat vacated by John J. Crittenden. As his prominence grew, his interracial relationship with Julia Chinn, an octoroon slave, was more widely criticized. It worked against his political ambitions. Unlike other upper class leaders who had African American mistresses but never mentioned them, Johnson openly treated Chinn as his common law wife. He acknowledged their two daughters as his children, giving them his surname, much to the consternation of some of his constituents. The relationship is believed to have led to the loss of his Senate seat in 1829, but his Congressional district returned him to the House the next year.
In 1836, Johnson was the Democratic nominee for vice-president on a ticket with Martin Van Buren. Campaigning with the slogan Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh, Johnson fell one short of the electoral votes needed to secure his election. Virginia's delegation to the Electoral College refused to endorse Johnson, abstaining instead. However, he was elected to the office by the Senate. Johnson proved such a liability for the Democrats in the 1836 election that they refused to renominate him for vice-president in 1840. President Van Buren campaigned for re-election without a running mate. He lost to William Henry Harrison, a Whig. Johnson tried to return to public office but was defeated. He finally was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1850, but he died on November 19, 1850, just two weeks into his term.