Detailed Description of Rice Ancestors in the Civil War, Bedford County, PA
Detailed description from Shreve's Chapel in Bedford County, PA of Rice's who served in the Civil War.
The Underground Railroad
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Chris Saunders discussed “The Underground Railroad” in the Archives and History Library of the Culture Center in Charleston.
The State of Ohio had more area bordering slave states than any other state in the Union. Lawrence County, the southernmost county in Ohio, bordered the slave states of Virginia and Kentucky. Countless enslaved African Americans first tasted freedom after crossing the Ohio River into Burlington and Ironton, Ohio. Chris Saunders identified and gave biographical sketches of the individuals of various ethnicities and religious beliefs who worked together in an informal network of safe houses and escape routes to help enslaved African Americans to freedom in the northern states and Canada.
Saunders is a graduate of Ohio University and a local historian who has spent the past 16 years researching Civil War-era history in the tri-state area. During the past five years, his primary focus has been the local Underground Railroad. He has identified more than 70 local Underground Railroad conductors and is currently in the process of compiling brief biographies of each.
In 2011, Saunders was contacted by PBS to help research the family history of nine-time Grammy winning R&B singer John Legend for the show Finding Your Roots, which led him to the Polley family, who after legally obtaining their freedom were kidnapped and held captive in Wayne County, Virginia. After the show aired, his research helped obtain a retroactive finding of freedom for the Polley children in the Wayne County (West Virginia) Circuit Court after 162 years, a legal conclusion the longest active fugitive slave case in U.S. history.
Saunders is the co-author of the article “Burlington 37 Cemetery” in Tri-State Living (2012). For the past five years, he has portrayed Underground Railroad conductor Jim Ditcher in the Ironton Woodland Cemetery Ghost Walk. He also has made presentations to local schools, historical societies, and other groups. Saunders served as a trustee for the Lawrence County Historical Society, 2013-2014, and provides tours to individuals, schools and civic groups.
Finding Your Roots in Washington: Prince George's County Genealogical Society
In Prince George's County, Maryland, a special community is open to all who want to find their roots. In 45 years, this community -- the Prince George's County Genealogical Society -- has grown from five people and 49 books to over 5,000 books, periodicals, and maps, and monthly meetings full of people who want to learn more about their ancestors. Participants love the fun of finding family facts, sharing research findings, and helping each other with the search!
Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Confederate symbols are still celebrated despite the ugly history they symbolize. John Oliver suggests some representations of southern pride that involve less racism and more Stephen Colbert.
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Russell Wilson with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at The Richmond Forum
In a live Richmond Forum exclusive, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the roots of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.
On April 2, 2016 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sat down in front of a Richmond, Virginia audience of 4,500 with Richmond’s native son and two-time Super Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson for a discussion and discovery of the family legacy and influences that have made Wilson the man he is today.
Broadcast in Richmond on WCVE PBS, this Richmond Forum program is a homecoming celebration that mixes sports, genealogy, and American history...along with a few family surprises.
The Map Thief
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business. Author Michael Blanding, in his book The Map Thief, describes the life of E. Forbes Smiley, a once considered respectable antiquarian map dealer, who spent years doubling as a map thief—until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. A book signing follows the program.
Prof. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Vexing & Awkward Dilemma: The Legacy of a Confederate Landscape”
An invited lecture by Professor W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His talk is titled A Vexing and Awkward Dilemma: The Legacy of a Confederate Landscape.
Edward Ball | Life of a Klansman || Radcliffe Institute
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Edward Ball RI ’17 investigates the life of a fighter in the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana—a member of Ball’s own family—and examines the role of this participant in the race terror that spread through the South during Reconstruction.
Ball is the 2016–2017 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Florida Frontiers TV - Episode 1 - The Civil War in Florida
Florida’s involvement in the Civil War includes the Battle of Olustee and the sinking of the Maple Leaf.
Ford Oval of Honor: Gerry Waite interview
Ford Oval of Honor interview with Gerry Waite, a Vietnam War veteran who served in the United States Army.
This collection contains oral history videos and transcripts for interviews with local World War II, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and Iraq War veterans between 2013 and 2016. The interviews were conducted by Chris Reidy of WIPB-TV as part of its Oval of Honor award series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Also included are annual Ford Oval of Honor programs about the award recipients for 2013-2015.
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2016 Grant Wood Symposium Morning Session
Kerry Dean Carso (State University of New York at New Paltz) presents Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture; James Swensen (Brigham Young University) presents On Common Ground: Grant Wood and the photography of the Farm Security Administration; and Annelise K. Madsen (Art Institute of Chicago) presents 'Something of color and imagination': Grant Wood, Storytelling, and the Past's Appeal in Depression-Era America at the 2016 Grant Wood Symposium held at the University of Iowa. Learn more at
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Jasper Thompson's Destiny Day by Jim Surkamp with Monique Crippen-Hopkins
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STORY 1 - INTRODUCTION: Jasper Thompson’s Destiny Day September 6, 1906
STORY 2 - PROSPECT HILL AND THE THREE BROTHERS WASHINGTON 3:56
STORY 3 - JASPER THOMPSON’S EARLIEST ANCESTORS 6:22
STORY 4 - 3 WASHINGTON FAMILIES HERE - 1820 ON 8:53
STORY 5 - “WHO ALL” OWNED MOUNT VERNON? 10:22
STORY 6 - BLAKELEY & CLAYMONT 13:18
STORY 7 - “GRAND-MOTHER JANE” 17:07
STORY 8 - THE BYWORD WAS . . . 23:23
STORY 9 - THE SOBER FACTS, BUT GEORGE JOHNSON “GETS CLEAR” 25:06
INTERMISSION 27:28
STORY 10 - JASPER THOMPSON BEGINS LIFE 28:47
STORY 11 - A YEAR’S WORK IN 1850 31:28
STORY 12 - JASPER COMES OF AGE 35:36
STORY 13 - WHEN SOMBER MEN WEEP 36:50
STORY 14 - THE STORM BREAKS AT HOME 40:54
STORY 15 - JOINING AN ARMY 43:21
STORY 16 - FARMING IN THE FIELD OF WAR 45:50
STORY 17 - WAR STRIKES DOWN A WASHINGTON 50:14
STORY 18 - A TWELVE-MINUTE MEDITATION ON WAR 55:40
STORY 19 - JASPER’s NEW LIFE COME JULY GETS OFF WITH A BIG BANG 1:08:33
STORY 20 - SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA: NETTA LEE “MEETS” THE 19th U.S.COLORED TROOPS 1:17:36
STORY 21 - TRAINED AT CAMP CASEY & A “LINCOLN MOMENT” 1:29:00
STORY 22 - MANASSAS CAMP - THE MEN BECOME ONE 1:35:30
STORY 23 - LEE’s MEN FIRST FACE BLACK MEN IN BLUECOATS 1:43:06
STORY 24 - THE CRATER CLIMAX 1.47:41
STORY 25 - JASPER THOMPSON’s DESTINY DAY 2:01:29
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Frederick Douglass | Wikipedia audio article
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Frederick Douglass
00:02:03 1 Life as a slave
00:06:46 2 From slavery to freedom
00:10:10 3 Abolitionist and preacher
00:13:40 3.1 Autobiography
00:14:53 3.2 Travels to Ireland and Great Britain
00:17:59 3.3 Return to the United States
00:20:07 3.4 Women's rights
00:23:43 3.5 Douglass refines his ideology
00:26:12 3.5.1 Photography
00:26:54 4 Religious views
00:32:38 5 Civil War years
00:32:48 5.1 Before the Civil War
00:33:15 5.2 Fight for emancipation and suffrage
00:35:37 5.3 After Lincoln's death
00:37:21 6 Reconstruction era
00:41:39 7 Family life
00:43:18 8 Final years in Washington, D.C.
00:47:23 9 Death
00:48:30 10 Legacy and honors
00:54:13 11 In arts and literature
00:57:04 12 Works
00:57:13 12.1 Writings
00:58:06 12.2 Speeches
00:58:36 13 See also
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union With Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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