Chester Arthur's Grave - Albany, NY
Chester Arthur's grave at Albany Rural Cemetery in Albany, NY on April 13, 2009
Remarks at the Grave of Chester Alan Arthur, Albany Rural Cemetery, October 5, 2019
Author and historian David Pietrusza (davidpietrusza.com) delivers the keynote address at ceremonies marking the 190th birthday of President Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) at Menands, New York's historic Albany Rural Cemetery (albanyruralcemetery.org). Saturday, October 5, 2019.
A wreath from the White House was presented at the gravesite by Brig. Gen. John Adonie, Director, Joint Staff of the New York Army National Guard, from the Division of Military and Naval Affairs in Latham, New York.
(Excuse the reference to subway; streetcar was meant.)
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The Polk Tomb
This video is part of the Tennessee State Capitol: Grounded in Tradition video documentary project, initiated by the Tennessee General Assembly and produced by the Secretary of State's Office, chronicling the history of this extraordinary building. Copies of the documentary were distributed to school districts in Tennessee's 95 counties, and are also available online along with supplementary educational content. Click the following link to learn more about this project: capitol.tnsos.net.
President john adams tomb quincy ma
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James A. Garfield's Grave - Cleveland, OH
James A. Garfield's grave at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, OH on 9/12/2008.
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Danielle at President James Buchanan's Grave in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; then my batteries died in the camera.... oh dismay.
Chester A. Arthur | Wikipedia audio article
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Chester A. Arthur
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- Socrates
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Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885; he was the 20th Vice President of the United States and became president upon the death of President James Garfield in September 1881.
Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, grew up in upstate New York, and practiced law in New York City. He served as quartermaster general of the New York Militia during the American Civil War. Following the war, he devoted more time to Republican politics and quickly rose in New York Senator Roscoe Conkling's political machine. Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878, the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system in New York. When Garfield won the Republican nomination for president in 1880, Arthur, an eastern Stalwart, was nominated for vice president to balance the ticket. Six months into his term Arthur assumed the presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor by a mentally ill Stalwart.
At the outset, Arthur struggled to overcome a negative reputation as a Stalwart and product of Conkling's machine. To the surprise of reformers, he took up the cause of civil service reform. Arthur advocated for and enforced the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. He presided over the rebirth of the United States Navy, but was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus, which had been accumulating since the end of the Civil War. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which resulted in denying citizenship to Chinese Americans until 1898 and barring Chinese immigration until 1943. Building on the 1875 Page Act, which barred Chinese women from entering the country, it was the first total ban on an ethnic or national group from immigrating to the country.
Suffering from poor health, Arthur made only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination in 1884; he retired at the close of his term. Journalist Alexander McClure later wrote, No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe. Although his failing health and political temperament combined to make his administration less active than a modern presidency, he earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office. The New York World summed up Arthur's presidency at his death in 1886: No duty was neglected in his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the nation. Mark Twain wrote of him, [I]t would be hard indeed to better President Arthur's administration. Over the 20th and 21st centuries, however, Arthur's reputation mostly faded among the public. He is generally ranked as an average president by historians and scholars. Arthur's obscurity has caused some historians and journalists to describe him as the Most Forgotten U.S. President.
James K. Polk's Grave - Nashville, TN
James K. Polk's grave at the State Capitol in Nashville, TN on 2/24/2008.
Woodrow Wilson's Grave - Washington, D.C.
Woodrow Wilson's grave at Washington National Cathedral Washington, D.C. on 3/4/2008.
Martin Van Buren's Grave - Kinderhook, NY
Martin Van Buren's grave at the Kinderhook Reformed Cemetery in Kinderhook, NY on April 13, 2009.
Warren G. Harding's Grave - Marion, OH
Warren G. Harding's grave at the Harding Tomb in Marion, OH on 9/11/2008.
Benjamin Harrison's Grave - Crown Hill Cemetery - Indianapolis, IN
Benjamin Harrison's grave at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, IN on November 7, 2009.
Purdue's 2008 highlights captured on video
The 54rd edition of the Purdue Newsreel, a video collection of university highlights from 2008, is now available.
The 18.5-minute program, produced by the Broadcast Services unit of the Office of Marketing and Media, can be viewed on the Web or is available from the Purdue Undergraduate Library. The video also can be purchased from the Purdue Alumni Association.
Before & After '68: The Poor People's Campaign, Then & Now
Participants in the Poor People's Campaigns of 1968 and 2018 -- scholars, cultural workers and documentarians -- discussed Martin Luther King Jr.'s original mass action for human rights and justice on it's 50th anniversary and its contemporary counterpart.
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love | Audio book with subtitles
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Nat LOVE
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white coworkers, he was an unrepentant racist! Convinced that the only good Indian was a dead one, and that all Mexicans were greasers and/or bums, he rarely passed up a chance to shoot a member of either group, whether in self-defense or cold blood, and shows no sign of having appreciated the difference. At one point, he fell in love with a Mexican girl but, apparently unable to tolerate this reality, considered her Spanish. Nat Love was a fascinating character who lived in equally interesting times, and one only wishes his autobiography was much longer and more detailed. summary by ohsostrange
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Clara Barton | Wikipedia audio article
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Clara Barton
00:00:37 1 Early life
00:03:22 2 Early professional life
00:06:08 3 American Civil War
00:09:40 4 Post American Civil War
00:11:07 5 American Red Cross
00:15:53 6 Final years
00:16:24 7 Religious beliefs
00:16:57 8 Clara Barton National Historic Site
00:18:02 9 Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
00:19:16 10 Fictional depictions
00:20:38 11 Places named for Clara Barton
00:20:48 11.1 Schools
00:22:34 11.2 Streets
00:23:13 11.3 Other
00:24:40 12 Published works
00:25:22 13 Notes
00:25:31 14 Further reading
00:29:24 14.1 Historiography
00:29:43 15 External links
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- Socrates
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Clarissa Clara Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
Kirk Cameron - Liberty University Convocation
On October 5, 2012 at Convocation, North America's largest weekly gathering of Christian students, Kirk Cameron shared his personal testimony as a recovering atheist with students and alumni during Homecoming Weekend.
Cameron is an actor/producer who first became famous when he starred as Mike Seaver on ABC's Growing Pains in the 1980s. He is also well known for his role in Fireproof, the highest grossing independent film of 2008 that focused on the importance of Christian values in marriage, as a star in the Left Behind movies, created from the bestselling books by longtime Liberty supporter Tim LaHaye, and as producer of the new documentary, Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure. He continues to impact the world for Christ through marriage seminars and speaking engagements across the country, as co-host of The Way of the Master television series, and through interviews with major television news networks.
Ulysses S. Grant | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:11 1 Early life and education
00:06:51 2 Early military career and personal life
00:07:02 2.1 West Point and first assignment
00:10:21 2.2 Marriage and family
00:11:26 2.3 Mexican–American War
00:14:41 2.4 Post-war assignments
00:17:49 3 Civilian struggles and politics
00:21:32 4 Civil War
00:22:34 4.1 Early commands
00:24:26 4.2 Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson
00:29:01 4.3 Shiloh and aftermath
00:34:26 4.4 Vicksburg campaign
00:38:36 4.5 Chattanooga and promotion
00:41:55 4.6 Overland Campaign and Petersburg Siege
00:47:16 4.7 Appomattox campaign, and victory
00:49:25 4.8 Lincoln's assassination
00:50:44 5 Commanding General
00:51:45 5.1 Reconstruction
00:53:22 5.2 Break from Johnson
00:56:27 5.3 Election of 1868
00:58:57 6 Presidency (1869–1877)
01:01:49 6.1 Later Reconstruction and civil rights
01:08:38 6.2 Native American iPeace/i policy
01:12:10 6.3 Foreign affairs
01:16:49 6.4 Gold standard and gold conspiracy
01:20:32 6.5 Election of 1872 and second term
01:24:05 6.6 Panic of 1873 and loss of Congress
01:27:15 6.7 Scandals and reform
01:34:34 6.8 Election of 1876
01:36:14 7 Post-presidency
01:36:24 7.1 World tour and diplomacy
01:38:08 7.2 Third term attempt
01:40:26 7.3 Business reversals, speculation and confidence men
01:43:33 7.4 Memoirs, pension, and death
01:49:48 8 Historical reputation
01:53:12 9 Memorials and presidential library
01:55:44 10 See also
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. During the American Civil War, General Grant, with President Abraham Lincoln, led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. During the Reconstruction Era, President Grant led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism, racism, and slavery.
From early childhood in Ohio, Grant was a skilled equestrian who had a talent for taming horses. He graduated from West Point in 1843 and served with distinction in the Mexican–American War. Upon his return, Grant married Julia Dent, and together they had four children. In 1854, Grant abruptly resigned from the army. He and his family struggled financially in civilian life for seven years. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Grant joined the Union Army and rapidly rose in rank to general. Grant was persistent in his pursuit of the Confederate enemy, winning major battles and gaining Union control of the Mississippi River. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to Lieutenant General, a rank previously reserved for George Washington. For over a year Grant's Army of the Potomac fought the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee in the Overland Campaign and at Petersburg. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, and the war ended.
On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. Grant continued his service under Lincoln's successor President Andrew Johnson and was promoted General of the Army in 1866. Disillusioned by Johnson's conservative approach to Reconstruction, Grant drifted toward the Radical Republicans. Elected the youngest 19th Century president in 1868, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. He appointed African-Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871, Grant created the first Civil Service Commission. The Democrats and Liberal Republicans united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was handily re-elected. Grant's new Peace Policy for Native Americans had both successes and failures. Grant's administration successfully resolv ...
AMAZING GRACE - Official Trailer - Aretha Franklin Concert Film
Witness Aretha Franklin as you’ve never seen her before. Experience an electrifying performance in the brand new concert film AMAZING GRACE – only in cinemas this May.
Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium, Panel 3: Power, Capital, and People
Panel 3 Participants:
Seng Kuan, moderator
Edward Eigen: “I. M. Pei and the ‘Big Plan’: The Several Lives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum”
André Bideau: “Between the Superblock and the Pyramid. I. M. Pei and Araldo Cossutta at La Défense”
Cole Roskam: “The Fragrant Hill Hotel: Reassessing the Politics of Tradition and Abstraction in China’s Early Reform Era”
Shirley Surya: “Pei's Office and Singapore's Urban Core: Corporate Architecture, Symbolic Aestheticization and Economic Pragmatism”
Kellogg Wong: “I. M. Pei & Partners, the Pei Team, and Singapore”
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage points. Organized by the Harvard GSD with M+, Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most celebrated yet under-theorized architects of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although Pei’s six-decade career is mostly identified with his unwavering interest in cultural synthesis and the power of pure geometrical form, his modes of practice demand further investigation of their intertwinement with the multiple historical and discursive moments of modern architecture. The two-day symposium will include panel discussions and scholarly presentations that showcase new research on Pei’s manifold contributions to the built environment. Notable alumni from Pei’s office will discuss the emergence of a new kind of architectural practice in the postwar era. Among the topics to be addressed in the paper sessions are technological innovations with concrete, the glass curtain wall, and structural designs; Pei’s longstanding affinities for China’s landscape and vernacular traditions; his legacy on major urban spaces in Boston and other cities around the world; and the increasingly global and transnational conditions of architectural production that Pei successfully navigated. Organized with M+, the new museum for visual culture being built in Hong Kong, this symposium is part of a yearlong celebration of the 100th birthday of Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei MArch ’46. Both I. M. and his wife, Eileen Pei GSD ’44, studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as did their sons Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, AB ’68, MArch ’72, and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, AB ’72, MArch ’76. Pei was also an assistant professor of architecture at the GSD. In March the GSD held a panel discussion, led by Harry Cobb AB ’47, MArch ’49, which focused on the formative years of I. M. Pei’s career as well as some of his special friendships, influences, and projects.
A second symposium, co-organized by M+ and the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will be held in Hong Kong on December 14-15.
These two symposia are made possible with the generous support of the C Foundation.