44th Georgia Infantry - Gettysburg Living History Program
Major Clark J. Van Buskirk, commanding the 44th Georgia Vol. Infantry, Company C reenacting unit, leads a talk about the infantry unit and features a live-fire demonstration.
Recorded in late summer 2018. The video has captions.
Little Round Top - Ranger Matt Atkinson
Join Ranger Matt Atkinson for a tour of one of the most famous locations on the Gettysburg battlefield - Little Round Top. Explore the hill as Matt interprets the fighting that occurred there on July 2nd, 1863.
Pettigrew's Brigade - Ranger Philip Brown
Ranger Philip Brown discusses the men of Pettigrew's Brigade on July 3, 1863.
Longstreet and Sickles: Together Again for the First Time (Lecture)
The Grand Reunion of 1888, held on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, was hailed as a time of reunion and reconciliation. It would also prove to be the first real meeting of many Union and Confederate veterans, Daniel Sickles, Henry Slocum, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet and John B. Gordon among them. All these former enemies joined together in feelings of brotherhood and pride in the accomplishments of a reunited nation. Join Ranger Karlton Smith and explore the events, interactions, and episodes of this important moment in Gettysburg history.
The Fight for Devil's Den - Ranger Scott Adrian
Join Ranger Scott Adrian for a guided tour through one of the most unique and visited sites within Gettysburg National Military Park, Devil's Den. The scene of horrific fighting late in the day on July 2, 1863, the rocky crags of the Den were captured by Confederate troops and held by them for the remainder of the battle.
How Does The Civil War Qualify as the First Modern War?
For 5,800 years of recorded history, wars were fought with pre-modern forms of transportation ad communication, where the world was powered by windmills, watermills, literal horse power and human muscle. However, this all changed with the invention of the steam engine and its implementation in the 19th century. In fifty short years, macadamized roads, canals, steam trains, steam boats, steam presses and telegraph communication revolutionized the transfer of energy and power. By the 1850s, every aspect of western civilization looked and functioned differently than it had for thousands of years. It was in this milieu the Civil War was fought. What did the first modern war look like and how did it differ from previous wars? How did wartime observations by foreign emissaries alter the course of future wars?
New York City draft riots
The New York City draft riots, known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops from following up after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The rioters were overwhelmingly working-class men, primarily ethnic Irish, resenting particularly that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 commutation fee to hire a substitute, were spared from the draft.
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List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials | Wikipedia audio article
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List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials
00:00:15 1 Washington, D.C.
00:02:39 1.1 U.S. Currency
00:03:38 1.2 US military
00:03:47 1.2.1 Bases
00:04:19 1.3 Gallery
00:04:27 2 Arizona
00:04:52 3 Arkansas
00:06:02 4 California
00:06:11 4.1 Schools
00:06:25 5 Colorado
00:06:49 6 Connecticut
00:07:14 6.1 Schools
00:07:32 7 Delaware
00:08:02 8 Florida
00:09:21 8.1 Schools
00:09:47 9 Illinois
00:10:26 9.1 Schools
00:10:58 10 Indiana
00:11:40 11 Iowa
00:12:57 11.1 Schools
00:13:09 12 Kansas
00:14:52 13 Kentucky
00:16:02 14 Louisiana
00:16:17 15 Maine
00:16:39 16 Maryland
00:17:07 17 Massachusetts
00:17:44 18 Michigan
00:18:22 19 Minnesota
00:18:34 20 Mississippi
00:19:45 21 Montana
00:19:58 22 Nebraska
00:20:24 23 New Hampshire
00:20:45 24 New Jersey
00:20:54 24.1 Schools
00:21:06 25 New Mexico
00:21:19 26 New York
00:22:13 27 North Carolina
00:22:23 27.1 Schools
00:22:35 28 North Dakota
00:22:48 29 Ohio
00:23:42 30 Oklahoma
00:24:43 31 Oregon
00:25:06 31.1 Schools
00:25:26 32 Pennsylvania
00:29:58 32.1 Schools
00:30:10 33 Rhode Island
00:30:36 34 South Dakota
00:30:50 35 Tennessee
00:31:05 36 Texas
00:31:17 37 Utah
00:31:34 38 Vermont
00:31:50 39 Virginia
00:32:46 40 Washington
00:33:24 41 West Virginia
00:33:56 41.1 Former
00:34:19 42 Scotland
00:34:33 43 See also
00:35:15 44 External links
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This is a list of American Civil War monuments and memorials associated with the Union. Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list.
Porcellian Club
The Porcellian Club is a men-only final club at Harvard University, sometimes called the Porc or the P.C. The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name the Argonauts, or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as the Pig Club was formally founded. The club's motto, Dum vivimus vivamus is literally Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems. The club was originally started by a group of 30 students from Massachusetts who wanted to avoid the dining halls and their food by roasting pigs.
The Porcellian is the iconic hotsy-totsy final club, often bracketed with Yale's Skull and Bones, Princeton's Ivy Club, Dartmouth's Sphinx Club, Rutgers' Cap and Skull, Cambridge's Pitt Club, and Oxford's Gridiron Club. A history of Harvard calls the Porcellian the most final of them all. Also, an urban legends website mentions a belief that if members of the Porcellian do not earn their first million before they turn 40, the club will give it to them.
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First inauguration of Barack Obama | Wikipedia audio article
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First inauguration of Barack Obama
00:02:27 1 Context
00:03:51 2 Planning
00:04:20 2.1 Joint Congressional Committee
00:06:56 2.2 Presidential Inaugural Committee
00:08:33 2.2.1 Fundraising
00:10:38 2.3 Invitations and tickets
00:13:09 3 Pre-inaugural events
00:13:19 3.1 Train ride: Commemorating Lincoln
00:16:39 3.2 We Are One concert
00:17:35 3.3 King Day of Service
00:19:05 3.4 Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future
00:20:14 4 Inaugural events
00:20:23 4.1 Ceremony: A New Birth of Freedom
00:23:24 4.2 Oath of office
00:25:41 4.2.1 Second oath ceremony
00:27:02 4.2.2 Inaugural address
00:31:05 4.2.3 Prayers
00:32:16 4.3 Post-ceremony traditions
00:33:27 4.3.1 Luncheon
00:35:15 4.3.2 Parade
00:37:07 4.3.3 Inaugural balls
00:41:46 4.3.4 National prayer service
00:43:21 5 Unofficial events
00:44:21 6 Attendance
00:44:29 6.1 Dignitaries, family and celebrity guests
00:46:35 6.2 Crowds and general ticket holders
00:50:00 6.3 Security
00:54:07 7 Viewership
00:54:15 7.1 Television audience
00:56:19 7.2 Internet traffic
00:57:50 8 International reaction
01:01:40 9 See also
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The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet traffic, it was among the most-observed events ever by the global audience.
A New Birth of Freedom, a phrase from the Gettysburg Address, served as the inaugural theme to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth year of Abraham Lincoln. In his speeches to the crowds, Obama referred to ideals expressed by Lincoln about renewal, continuity and national unity. Obama mentioned these ideals in his speech to stress the need for shared sacrifice and a new sense of responsibility to answer America's challenges at home and abroad.
Obama and others paid homage to Lincoln in the form of tributes and references during several of the events, starting with a commemorative train tour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C. on January 17, 2009. The inaugural events held in Washington from January 18 to 21, 2009, included concerts, a national day of community service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the swearing-in ceremony, luncheon and parade, inaugural balls, and the interfaith inaugural prayer service. The presidential oath as administered to Obama during his swearing-in ceremony on January 20 strayed slightly from the oath of office prescribed in the United States Constitution, which led to its re‑administration the next day.
In addition to a larger than usual celebrity attendance, the Presidential Inaugural Committee increased its outreach to ordinary citizens to encourage greater participation in inaugural events compared with participation in recent past inaugurations. For the first time, the committee opened the entire length of the National Mall as the public viewing area for the swearing-in ceremony, breaking with the tradition of past inaugurations. Selected American citizens participated in the train tour and other inaugural events, and a philanthropist organized a People's Inaugural Ball for disadvantaged people who otherwise would be unable to afford to attend the inaugural festivities. Among the celebrations for the inauguration, the committee hosted a first-ever Neighborhood Inaugural Ball with free or affordable tickets for ordinary citizens.