The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Black Hills
About 30-thousand young men worked for the CCC in South Dakota from 1933 until the program was ended in 1942. Completed CCC projects can be seen all over the state but the Black Hills area is especially rich with CCC history.
South Dakota CCC Images are courtesy of the CCC Museum of South Dakota, Hill City.
Other photos courtesy: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
Learn more at sdpb.org/imagesofthepast and at southdakotaccc.org
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CCC Display at Mount Rushmore
The Civilian Conservation Corps contributed much across the United States from 1933 to 1942. In The Black Hills of South Dakota the work of these men is still obvious today. Tourism in South Dakota would not have reached the level experienced today without the CCC.
Jay Hendrickson with Steve Long
Everyone associated with the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum of South Dakota and Hill City Visitor Information Center wish to thank Steve Long and KEVN for graciously allowing us to share this video with all of our friends and visitors from across the country and world, to the Museum, The Black Hills, and the State of South Dakota.
1937 CCC Annual
Official 1937 Civilian Conservation Corps Annual for Nebraska South Dakota District, Seventh Corps Area. This annual was donated to the CCC Museum of South Dakota by Melvin Hermanson who served in the Cs.
1933 CCC Yearbook
This Civilian Conservation Corps annual was donated to CCC Museum of South Dakota in November of 2016. It is an original that belonged to a CC Boy in the Service Company in South Dakota.
Goens Donates GMC
The family of Allen Goens have donated a restored 1935 GMC truck to the CCC Museum of South Dakota. The truck was built by GM for use in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Civilian Conservation Corps Shelter - Robbers Cave State Park
Originally built in 1935 by the CCC as a water treatment facility, this shelter was renovated in 1939 for its current purpose.
This CCC shelter is located at the south end of the equestrian campground at Robbers Cave State Park. Robbers Cave State Park is part of the Oklahoma State Parks system and is just a few miles from Wilburton in eastern Oklahoma.
Arlington National Cemetery-Tomb Guard History
A historical look at the soldiers who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally patrolled by a civilian guard, the elite 3rd United States Infantry, known as The Old Guard, took over the honor in 1948. Find out more in this fascinating one-minute Military History profile.
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Land of 10,000 Brews
Minnesota has a passion for beer - from the first ales brewed by settlers, to the modern craft beer movement. We spoke with historian Doug Hoverson and two Minnesotan brewers to learn about how beer has changed over time.
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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.
Guernsey State Park - Stop 1: One Man's Vision
Charles Guernsey and Elwood Mead had a dream to construct a dam in the North Platte area to help with farming and ranching in this part of the state. With the assistance of Senator John Kendrick, construction of the Guernsey Dam was completed in 1928. During the Great Depression, this region became two separate CCC camps and most of what is known as the park was developed during that time period.
Documents that Changed the Way We Live
Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, and our stories can be told through these objects. In Documents that Changed the Way We Live, professor Joseph Janes examines dozens of stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. A book signing will follow the program.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28. Robert Fechner was the head of the agency. It was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men, to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States while at the same time implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $30 a month.
The American public made the CCC the most popular of all the New Deal programs. Principal benefits of an individual's enrollment in the CCC included improved physical condition, heightened morale, and increased employability. Implicitly, the CCC also led to a greater public awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's natural resources; and the continued need for a carefully planned, comprehensive national program for the protection and development of natural resources.
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2019 Genealogy Fair session 5: Discovering and Researching Bureau of Indian Affairs School Records
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Session Description: Federally run schools for American Indian children first emerged in the mid-19th century and became a potent tool of cultural assimilation for decades, before slowly evolving alongside the general changes and improvements in Native American relations. This presentation will discuss the records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding and day schools, looking at both individual student case files as well as general administrative records, what was and was not saved, what can be found within them, and what privacy restrictions exist. Located at National Archives facilities across the country and often hidden within other BIA series, these records not only chronicle a student's academic career but often health, family, and life after school. General school records paint a portrait of school life and can further flesh out an individual's history at a particular school at a particular time.
Presenter: Cody White has been an archivist with the National Archives at Denver since 2012 and was recently named Subject Matter Expert for Native American Related Records for the National Archives. He holds a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of California Los Angeles and a BA in History from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Jocko Podcast 92 w/ Rob Jones: Ultra-Winning Mindset of a Marine Corps Combat Engineer
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History of Minnesota | Wikipedia audio article
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History of Minnesota
00:02:20 1 Native American inhabitation
00:06:12 2 European exploration
00:11:36 3 Territorial foundation and settlement
00:11:46 3.1 Land acquisition
00:13:34 3.2 Fort Snelling and the establishment of Minneapolis and Saint Paul
00:19:16 3.3 Early European settlement and development
00:21:15 3.4 Minnesota Territory
00:22:55 3.5 Statehood
00:26:24 4 Civil War era and Dakota War of 1862
00:29:33 5 Economic and social development
00:29:43 5.1 Farming and railroad development
00:33:51 5.2 Industrial development
00:35:34 5.3 Mayo Clinic
00:36:55 5.4 Urbanization and government
00:38:46 5.5 Great Depression
00:41:52 6 Modern Minnesota
00:42:01 6.1 Arts and culture
00:44:05 6.2 Minnesota in World War II
00:46:21 6.3 Modern economy
00:48:11 6.4 The digital state
00:49:40 6.5 Postwar politics
00:57:59 7 See also
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The history of the U.S. state of Minnesota is shaped by its original Native American residents, European exploration and settlement, and the emergence of industries made possible by the state's natural resources. Minnesota achieved prominence through fur trading, logging, and farming, and later through railroads, and iron mining. While those industries remain important, the state's economy is now driven by banking, computers, and health care.
The earliest known settlers followed herds of large game to the region during the last glacial period. They preceded the Anishinaabe, the Dakota, and other Native American inhabitants. Fur traders from France arrived during the 17th century. Europeans moving west during the 19th century, drove out most of the Native Americans. Fort Snelling, built to protect United States territorial interests, brought early settlers to the area. Early settlers used Saint Anthony Falls for powering sawmills in the area that became Minneapolis, while others settled downriver in the area that became Saint Paul.
Minnesota gained legal existence as the Minnesota Territory in 1849, and became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858. After the upheaval of the American Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862, the state's economy started to develop when natural resources were tapped for logging and farming. Railroads attracted immigrants, established the farm economy, and brought goods to market. The power provided by St. Anthony Falls spurred the growth of Minneapolis, and the innovative milling methods gave it the title of the milling capital of the world.
New industry came from iron ore, discovered in the north, mined relatively easily from open pits, and shipped to Great Lakes steel mills from the ports at Duluth and Two Harbors. Economic development and social changes led to an expanded role for state government and a population shift from rural areas to cities. The Great Depression brought layoffs in mining and tension in labor relations but New Deal programs helped the state. After World War II, Minnesota became known for technology, fueled by early computer companies Sperry Rand, Control Data and Cray. The Twin Cities also became a regional center for the arts with cultural institutions such as the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Walker Art Center.
VMI Graduation Ceremony 2017
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Sally Jewell on Health and Nature
On Thursday, October 26, a sold out crowd at Benaroya Hall heard former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell deliver the 2017 Doug Walker Lecture. Secretary Jewell spoke on the the role public lands and nature play in our lives, and the importance of connecting all people to the natural world.
The 2017 Doug Walker Lecture is presented by the UW College of the Environment, in partnership with the REI Co-op and Seattle Foundation.
Theodore Roosevelt | Wikipedia audio article
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ROH-zə-velt; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore, alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. In polls of historians and political scientists, Roosevelt is generally ranked as one of the five best presidents.Roosevelt was born a sickly child with debilitating asthma, but he overcame his physical health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle. He integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a cowboy persona defined by robust masculinity. Home-schooled, he began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard College. His book, The Naval War of 1812 (1882), established his reputation as both a learned historian and as a popular writer. Upon entering politics, he became the leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state legislature. Following the near-simultaneous deaths of his wife and mother, he escaped to a cattle ranch in the Dakotas. Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. Returning a war hero, he was elected Governor of New York in 1898. After the death of Vice President Garret Hobart, the New York state party leadership convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously, and the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity, and conservation.
After taking office as Vice President in March 1901, he became President at age 42 following McKinley's assassination that September, and remains the youngest person to become President of the United States. As a leader of the Progressive movement, he championed his Square Deal domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. Making conservation a top priority, he established many new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America, where he began construction of the Panama Canal. He expanded the Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to project the United States' naval power around the globe. His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. He avoided controversial tariff and money issues. Elected in 1904 to a full term, Roosevelt continued to promote progressive policies, many of which were passed in Congress. Roosevelt successfully groomed his close friend, William Howard Taft, and Taft won the 1908 presidential election to succeed him.
Frustrated with Taft's conservatism, Roosevelt belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination. He failed, walked out and founded a third party, the Progressive, so-called Bull Moose Party, which called for wide-ranging progressive reforms. He ran in the 1912 election and the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election. Following his defeat, Roosevelt led a two-year expedition to the Amazon basin, where he nearly died of tropical disease. During World War I, he criticized President Wilson for keeping the country out of the war with Germany, and his offer to lead volunteers to France was rejected. Though he had considered running for president again in 1920, Roosevelt's health continued to d ...
Jewel Cave National Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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Jewel Cave National Monument
00:00:25 1 History
00:02:36 2 Exploration
00:03:54 3 Geology
00:05:43 4 Access
00:06:16 5 See also
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Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the third longest cave in the world, with 198.00 miles (318.65 kilometers) of mapped passageways. It is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota. It became a national monument in 1908.