Rep. Butler Explores Springfield's Grand Army of the Republic Museum
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The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum at Seventh and Cook streets in Springfield is thought to be one of the few surviving museums of its kind in the country.
Opened in 1941 in a converted home, the current stone structure was built in 1963 at a cost of $75,000. The museum, staffed by volunteers in recent years, is just south of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
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The GAR Memorial Hall and Museum is a memorial to area veterans of the Civil War. Built in 1877-78, GAR Memorial Hall, Post 20, was closed in the mid-1990s because of structural concerns. But after a 15-year restoration project, the historic building at 23 E. Downer Place in downtown Aurora, re-opened for public viewing on Memorial Day.
The GAR Memorial Hall and Museum restoration project has focused on restoring and stabilizing the exterior of the building, and restoration and creation of exhibits for the Angel Room, the main display area. For the reopening, the Angel Room is filled with unique exhibits on the Civil War and the GAR, on the brave Aurora soldiers who joined in the fight, and on everyday life in post-Civil War America.
In celebration of the re-opening of the Grand Army of the Republic(GAR) Memorial Hall and Museum, the City of Aurora is opening the historic treasure for public viewing on an initial limited basis.
The first tour opportunity since it reopened on Memorial Day will be during the monthly First Fridays festivities in downtown Aurora on Friday, June 3. The public can take a self-guided tour between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. It will be open for every First Fridays event through November.
In addition, the GAR Memorial Hall and Museum will also be open for public viewing each Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. beginning on Saturday, June 4.
Group tours can be arranged for Wednesday-Friday by appointment only. For more information, call 630-256-INFO.
Tours are free and open to the public.
Grand Army of the Republic room, Douglas Co. Courthouse, Tuscola, IL
The Grand Army of the Republic Room is as it was when the last Civil War veteran died. Photos of artifacts, Regimental Flags and Civil War veterans. Open during Courthouse hours of business
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The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army , Union Navy , Marines and the U.S.Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War for the Northern/Federal forces.Founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois, and growing to include hundreds of posts across the nation, , it was dissolved in 1956 when its last member, Albert Woolson of Duluth, Minnesota, died.Linking men through their experience of the war, the G.A.R.
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Michigan's GAR Museum - Vol. II, Episode 4
A great way to experience the Civil War era is through the many smaller museums that exist across the country. Many focus on the local area and it's specific contributions. This episode is our first as we help you visit many of them. Michigan's GAR Memorial Hall and Museum is located in Eaton Rapids, MI, just a quick drive from the state capitol of Lansing. We visit with the Board President, Keith Harrison and share images of the museum, it's story, and collection.
We've only scratched the tip of the iceberg of what to see there. Go visit for yourself!
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List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic | Wikipedia audio article
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List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic
00:00:18 1 National
00:00:47 2 State
00:00:56 2.1 California
00:01:42 2.2 Connecticut
00:02:06 2.3 District of Columbia
00:02:49 2.4 Illinois
00:04:54 2.5 Indiana
00:05:27 2.6 Iowa
00:06:27 2.7 Kansas
00:07:05 2.8 Kentucky
00:07:20 2.9 Louisiana
00:07:40 2.10 Maryland
00:08:42 2.11 Massachusetts
00:09:12 2.12 Michigan
00:11:10 2.13 Minnesota
00:12:49 2.14 Missouri
00:13:16 2.15 Nebraska
00:13:32 2.16 New Hampshire
00:14:04 2.17 New Jersey
00:15:37 2.18 New York
00:17:07 2.19 North Dakota
00:17:21 2.20 Ohio
00:17:40 2.21 Oregon
00:18:00 2.22 Pennsylvania
00:19:00 2.23 Tennessee
00:19:17 2.24 Vermont
00:20:08 2.25 Washington
00:21:22 2.26 Wisconsin
00:22:01 3 See also
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FAMOUS GRAVE TOUR - Forest Lawn Glendale #5 (Ethel Waters, Robert Taylor, etc.)
Welcome to Hollywood Graveyard, where we set out to remember and celebrate the lives of those who lived to entertain us, by visiting their final resting places. Today we conclude our revisit to Forest Lawn Glendale, to fund such stars as Ethel Waters, Robert Taylor, Edith Head, and many more.
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William Demarest, Art Acord, George Westmore, Jimmy MacDonald, Caryll Ann Ekelund, Maria Ouspenskaya, Cyril Delevanti, Betty Bronson, Olive Borden, Blossom Rock, Joe Grant, Forrest J Ackerman, Lilli Palmer, Joe Besser, Al Simon, Gummo Marx, Mary Wells, Billy Barty, Harry Womack, Robert Taylor, Natalie Cole (revisit), Frank Nelson, William Wyler, Jack & Lottie Pickford, Earl Carroll, Buddy Adler, Anita Louise, Perc Westmore, Jay Ward, Wally Albright, Ethel Waters, Robert Alda, Edith Head.
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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln | Wikipedia audio article
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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln
00:00:15 1 Changing image
00:02:14 2 Organizations
00:03:12 3 Memorials
00:05:06 3.1 Desecration
00:05:54 3.2 Statue burning
00:06:14 4 Stamps, currency and coins
00:07:43 5 International
00:08:51 6 Birthday
00:09:34 7 Sculpture in the United States
00:13:45 8 See also
00:14:16 9 Notes
00:14:25 10 Further reading
00:17:02 11 External links
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Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president 1861–65, has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names, Along with George Washington, he is an iconic image of American democracy and nationalism.
Route 66 Pt. 1 - Missouri Life TV (Episode 3 - Season 5)
Welcome to a special episode of Missouri Life TV featuring the mother road, Route 66! In part 1 of this 2-part episode, we’ll revel in the beauty of the Mighty Mississippi river during a stroll across the Chain of Rocks Bridge. Taste a St. Louis staple at Ted Drewes Frozen Custard. Witness art that is larger than life in Cuba, Missouri - or “Mural City”, as it’s sometimes called. Wander through Bob’s Gasoline Alley, adorned with relics from the glory days of the Old Road. Snack on a variety of soda flavors and popcorn at Fanning Outpost. Stop by the quaint Wagon Wheel Motel and it’s beautiful neon sign. And see more of the rich beauty along America’s Main Street as we travel South through Pulaski County across the Devil's Elbow Bridge, making a stop at the Stagecoach Stop museum to reminisce on the many decades of history it honors.
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Abraham Lincoln | Wikipedia audio article
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the U.S. through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican–American War.
After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas.
In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860.
Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. U.S. troops refused to leave Fort Sumter, a fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, after the secession of the Southern States.
The resulting Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to rally behind the Union. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Democrats, who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp; anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him; and irreconcilable secessionists, who plotted his assassination.
Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other, by carefully planned political patronage and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial Ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair.
Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery.
An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.
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Modern display of the Confederate flag | Wikipedia audio article
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Modern display of the Confederate flag
00:01:30 1 Background
00:01:56 2 The vernacular Confederate flag
00:03:31 3 Revival and controversy
00:04:55 3.1 Unofficial military use
00:06:08 3.2 Political groups
00:09:27 3.3 Religious groups
00:09:49 3.4 Public opinion (2011-2017)
00:11:51 3.5 Historical and modern meaning
00:13:53 3.6 Popularity outside the southern U.S.
00:14:12 3.6.1 Pacific Northwest
00:15:39 3.6.2 At European far-right events
00:16:11 3.6.3 Southern pride in Italy's football stadiums
00:17:55 3.7 In film and television
00:18:18 3.8 Use by musicians
00:19:11 3.9 University of Mississippi statue
00:20:27 3.10 House bill banning flag at VA cemeteries
00:21:31 3.11 Six Flags Over Texas
00:22:09 3.12 Display at American University
00:22:36 3.13 Silent Sam controversy (North Carolina)
00:22:57 4 Official usage in southern U.S. states
00:24:10 4.1 State flags
00:24:18 4.1.1 Alabama
00:26:13 4.1.2 Arkansas
00:26:39 4.1.3 Florida
00:27:11 4.1.4 Georgia
00:28:22 4.1.5 Mississippi
00:29:40 4.1.6 North Carolina
00:30:05 4.2 State symbol
00:30:48 4.3 State seals
00:32:17 4.4 Vehicle license plates
00:34:01 4.5 Display at South Carolina State Capitol
00:38:11 5 Reactions to 2015 Charleston church shooting
00:40:23 5.1 Removal from South Carolina State Capitol
00:45:56 5.2 Retailer bans
00:48:33 5.3 NASCAR
00:49:45 5.4 Washington National Cathedral
00:50:44 6 Trump rallies
00:52:13 7 Display in South Carolina vandalized
00:53:02 8 See also
00:53:37 9 Further reading
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The display of flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the Southern cross used in the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, the Southern United States in general. Such displays have been made for a variety of reasons, with Southern heritage, states' rights, and historical commemoration among the stated reasons for particular uses. Displaying the flag has long been controversial in the United States, due to the flag's longstanding associations with racism, slavery, segregation, white supremacy, and treason. Many Southerners associate the Confederate battle flag with pride in their heritage and traditions, but for most outsiders it is impossible to separate the flag from its association with the defense of slavery and racial bias.
Despite the common belief that the Confederate flag has remained in uninterrupted use since the end of the American Civil War, its use was mostly limited to historical films, like Gone with the Wind (1939). Its revival in the 1950s and 1960s came about because of the American Civil War Centennial, but was also used to show opposition to the
Civil Rights Movement, starting with Senator Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats in 1948. Racism played a major role in its renewed popularity.
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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.
Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps | Wikipedia audio article
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Presidents of the United States have frequently appeared on U.S. postage stamps since the mid–1800s. The United States Post Office released its first two postage stamps in 1847, featuring George Washington on one, and Benjamin Franklin on the other . The advent of presidents on postage stamps has been definitive to U.S. postage stamp design since the first issues were released and set the precedent that U.S. stamp designs would follow for many generations.
The paper postage stamp itself was born of utility (in England, 1840), as something simple and easy to use was needed to confirm that postage had been paid for an item of mail. People could purchase several stamps at one time and no longer had to make a special trip to pay for postage each time an item was mailed. The postage stamp design was usually printed from a fine engraving and were almost impossible to forge adequately. This is where the appearance of presidents on stamps was introduced. Moreover, the subject theme of a president, along with the honors associated with it, is what began to define the stamp issues in ways that took it beyond the physical postage stamp itself and is why people began to collect them. There exist entire series of stamp issues whose printing was inspired by the subject alone.
The portrayals of Washington and Franklin on U.S. postage are among the most definitive of examples and have appeared on numerous postage stamps. The presidential theme in stamp designs would continue as the decades passed, each period issuing stamps with variations of the same basic presidential-portrait design theme. The portrayals of U.S. presidents on U.S. postage has remained a significant subject and design theme on definitive postage throughout most of U.S. stamp issuance history.Engraved portrayals of U.S. presidents were the only designs found on U.S. postage from 1847 until 1869, with the one exception of Benjamin Franklin, whose historical stature was comparable to that of a president, although his appearance was also an acknowledgement of his role as the first U. S. Postmaster General. During this period, the U.S. Post Office issued various postage stamps bearing the depictions of George Washington foremost, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, the last of whom first appeared in 1866, one year after his death. After twenty-two years of issuing stamps with only presidents and Franklin, the Post Office in 1869 issued a series of eleven postage stamps that were generally regarded by the American public as being abruptly different from the previous issues and whose designs were considered at the time to be a break from the tradition of honoring American forefathers on the nation's postage stamps. These new issues had other nonpresidential subjects and a design style that was also different, one issue bearing a horse, another a locomotive, while others were depicted with nonpresidential themes. Washington and Lincoln were to be found only once in this series of eleven stamps, which some considered to be below par in design and image quality. As a result, this pictographic series was met with general disdain and proved so unpopular that the issues were consequently sold for only one year where remaining stocks were pulled from post offices across the United States.In 1870 the Post Office resumed its tradition of printing postage stamps with the portraits of American Presidents and Franklin but now added several other famous Americans, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton and General Winfield Scott among other notable Americans. Indeed, the balance had now shifted somewhat; of the ten stamps issued in 1870, only four offered presidential images. Moreover, presidents also appeared on less than half of the denominations in the definitive sets of 1890, 1917, 1954 and 1965, while occupying only a slight major ...
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. Lindbergh covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. This was not the first flight between North America and Europe, but he did achieve the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the Crime of the Century and was described by H. L. Mencken as the biggest story since the Resurrection. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim. By late 1935, the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist.
Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three German women (two from Bavaria, one from East Prussia) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world.
The Civil War Touches Southern Illinois - Ken Carr
Ken Carr narrates the history of General John A. Logan and how the Civil War influence Southern Illinois' history in his piece The Civil War Touches Southern Illinois: A Portrait of General John A. Logan, performed by the combined John A. Logan Community Band and Orchestra under the direction of Michael Hanes at their annual spring concert.
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Sacco and Vanzetti | Wikipedia audio article
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Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian-born American anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. Both men adhered to an anarchist movement that advocated relentless warfare against a violent and oppressive government.After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of first-degree murder and they were sentenced to death by the trial judge. Anti-Italianism, anti-immigrant bias, and anti-left political motives were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict. A series of appeals followed, funded largely by the private Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. The appeals were based on recanted testimony, conflicting ballistics evidence, a prejudicial pre-trial statement by the jury foreman, and a confession by an alleged participant in the robbery. All appeals were denied by trial judge Webster Thayer and also later denied by the Massachusetts State Supreme Court. By 1926, the case had drawn worldwide attention. As details of the trial and the men's suspected innocence became known, Sacco and Vanzetti became the center of one of the largest causes célèbres in modern history. In 1927, protests on their behalf were held in every major city in North America and Europe, as well as in Tokyo, Toronto, London, Sydney, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Auckland.Celebrated writers, artists, and academics pleaded for their pardon or for a new trial. Harvard law professor and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter argued for their innocence in a widely read Atlantic Monthly article that was later published in book form. Sacco and Vanzetti were scheduled to die in April 1927, accelerating the outcry. Responding to a massive influx of telegrams urging their pardon, Massachusetts governor Alvan T. Fuller appointed a three-man commission to investigate the case. After weeks of secret deliberation that included interviews with the judge, lawyers, and several witnesses, the commission upheld the verdict. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair just after midnight on August 23, 1927. Subsequent riots destroyed property in Paris, London, and other cities.
Investigations in the aftermath of the executions continued throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The publication of the men's letters, containing eloquent professions of innocence, intensified belief in their wrongful execution. Additional ballistics tests and incriminating statements by the men's acquaintances have clouded the case. On August 23, 1977—the 50th anniversary of the executions—Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted and that any disgrace should be forever removed from their names.
Keynote by Don H. Doyle for Hybrid Republicanism: Italy and American Art, 1840-1918
The Republican Experiment: America, Italy, and the Perils of Self-Government, keynote talk by Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina and Director of ARENA, The Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalisms in America.
The keynote was part of “Hybrid Republicanism: Italy and American Art, 1840-1918,” an international conference hosted by the Centro Studi Americani and the American Academy in Rome. Conference talks considered the shared notions of republicanism and tyranny that animated American and Italian politics and visual culture from the nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts | Wikipedia audio article
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Cambridge ( KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), two of the world's most prestigious universities, are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College, one of the leading colleges for women in the United States until it merged with Harvard on October 1, 1999.
According to the 2010 Census, the city's population was 105,162. As of July 2014, it was the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell. Cambridge was one of two seats of Middlesex County until the county government was abolished in Massachusetts in 1997. Lowell was the other.
Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called the most innovative square mile on the planet, in reference to the high concentration of entrepreneurial start-ups and quality of innovation that have emerged there since 2010.