National Veterans Art Museum featuring new 'Artifacts' exhibit
The National Veterans Art Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of art inspired by combat and created by veterans.
Chicago's National Veterans Art Museum a finalist for top honor
By Tammy Theringer/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Chicago's National Veterans Art Museum is one of 30 finalists for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. It's the highest honor conferred on museums and libraries for service to the community.
“Veterans in the Arts” with Carol Williams and Mike Helbing---usvapART
Carol Williams (from the United States Veterans Art Program in Chicago) interviews Army Vietnam Veteran and Chicago sculptor Mike Helbing, who has been involved with the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago since its inception, as chairman of the board, curator and member artist. His works can be viewed on his website: mikehelbing.com
Original airdate on CAN TV Veterans Issues: June 9, 2011
The Lionhearted - A Safariland Film
Together We Save Lives. To some, these may be mere words, remnants of a time when companies embraced their history and delivered on their promises. But, at The Safariland Group we live those values every day. We live them when we empower over a thousand people to design, engineer, research and deliver our protective equipment products to those that protect us. We live them as we continuously seek new innovations to add to the premier group of Safariland brands that have been protecting law enforcement, military and security professionals for over 50 years. We live them when we help save lives. From the front lines to back home, our veterans have made tremendous sacrifices for their families, their communities and our country. But the brave and determined have become increasingly lost and forgotten. The ravages of PTSD, body mutilation due to IEDs, and nightmares resounding with echoes of the battlefield are often the private hells of our returned heroes and warriors.
A short narrative film is being produced that spotlights these warriors’ stories of courage, combat and comradery while in Afghanistan, Iraq and other active war zones. The video features interviews conducted veteran-to-veteran, as well as footage of both combat and their present day home and work life. The project is being released on Veteran’s Day at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, Illinois, where the film crew is set to capture the unveiling of the veterans’ individual art pieces and celebration of their service. Visit
Art therapy helps heal Northwest soldiers and veterans
Wounded soldiers and veterans are learning to express themselves and heal through art therapy. KING 5's Drew Mikkelsen reports from Madigan Army Medical Center.
20th Anniversary National Tribute, Washington, DC
In April 2013, the Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary. On Monday, April 29, Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans, rescuers, and other Museum supporters gathered in Washington, DC, for a National Tribute Ceremony honoring survivors and veterans. Afterward, visitors were able to attend a wide range of programs where they learned about the Museum's varied activities. Throughout the day, our youngest visitors were reminded that the future of Holocaust memory is in their hands.
“Veterans in the Arts” with Carol Williams and Konrad Hack---usvapART
Carol Williams (from the United States Veterans Art Program in Chicago) interviews Army Vietnam Veteran and combat artist Konrad Hack, showing illustrations of his portrait work both in Vietnam and throughout his career as a painter. Hack was the founding member of the Chicago Air Force Artists Association, and is a member of the NASA Fine Art Program. He teaches at the Robert Morris College near Niles, Illinois.
Original airdate on CAN TV Veterans Issues: May 12, 2011
President Reagan’s Arrival in Illinois with visits to Deerfield and Chicago on October 10, 1985
Full Title: President Reagan’s Arrival in Illinois with Cuts of his Speech at Sara Lee and his Press Statement on the Achille Lauro in Deerfield and Cuts of his visit to the Gordon Technical High School in Chicago on October 10, 1985
Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent)
Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
Collection: Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration), 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989
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Production Date: 10/10/1985
Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600
Phone: 800-410-8354, Fax: 805-577-4074, Email: reagan.library@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier:52852690
Citizen Soldier: In Our Voices, Veterans from WWII, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan
Sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
A collaboration between the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Pritzker Military Library, we present a powerful conversation between veterans from World War II, Vietnam and the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear these veterans discuss the ways in which military service has changed in the last 60 years, the ways in which it will never change, and how their sacrifice shapes our world today.
Panelists are David H. Hymes, former National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA and World War II veteran; James Mukoyama, who served over thirty years on active and reserve duty in the United States Army including service in Vietnam and was the first Asian-American to command a U.S. Army division; and Rodrigo Garcia, Assistant Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Places to see in ( Madison - USA )
Places to see in ( Madison - USA )
Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin, lies west of Milwaukee. It’s known for the domed Wisconsin State Capitol, which sits on an isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona. The Wisconsin Historical Museum documents the state’s immigrant and farming history. The city's paved Capital City State Trail runs past Monona Terrace, a lakefront convention center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin, 77 miles (124 km) west of Milwaukee and 122 miles (196 km) northwest of Chicago. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, the City of Monona, and the villages of Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills. Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland, and Fitchburg. The city's boundaries also approach the city of Verona and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee.
The city is sometimes described as The City of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota (Fourth Lake), Lake Monona (Third Lake), Lake Waubesa (Second Lake) and Lake Kegonsa (First Lake), although Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but just south of it. A fifth smaller lake, Lake Wingra, is within the city as well; it is connected to the Yahara River chain by Wingra Creek. The Yahara flows into the Rock River, which flows into the Mississippi River. Downtown Madison is located on an isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona. The city's trademark of Lake, City, Lake reflects this geography.
Local identity varies throughout Madison, with over 120 officially recognized neighborhood associations, such as the east side Williamson-Marquette Neighborhood. Neighborhoods on and near the eastern part of the isthmus, some of the city's oldest, have the strongest sense of identity and are the most politically liberal. Historically, the north, east, and south sides were blue collar while the west side was white collar, and to a certain extent this remains true. Students dominate on the University of Wisconsin campus and to the east into downtown, while to its south and in Shorewood Hills on its west, faculty have been a major presence since those neighborhoods were originally developed. The turning point in Madison's development was the university's 1954 decision to develop its experimental farm on the western edge of town; since then, the city has grown substantially along suburban lines.
A lot to see in Madison Wisconsin such as :
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Wisconsin State Capitol
Henry Vilas Zoo
University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
Lake Mendota
Lake Monona
Lake Kegonsa State Park
State Street
Madison Children's Museum
National Mustard Museum
Governor Nelson State Park
Chazen Museum of Art
Pheasant Branch Conservancy
Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison
Ice Age Trail Alliance
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Friends of Pope Farm Conservancy
Vilas
Allen Centennial Garden
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Lake Waubesa
Pheasant Branch Road
Elver Park
Warner Park
Cherokee Marsh - North Unit
Memorial Union
Capital Springs State Recreation Area
Olin Park
Lake Wingra
Tenney Park
University of Wisconsin Geology Museum
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Picnic Point
Aldo Leopold Nature Center
McKee Farms Park
Vilas Park
Token Creek County Park
Madison Masonic Center
James Madison Park
Crawdaddy Cove Indoor Water Park
Badger Prairie County Park
Wisconsin Governor's Mansion
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Lower Yahara River Trail
City of Madison Parks
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House
Vilas Park Drive
Devils Lake Climbing Guides
Edna Taylor Conservation Park
Wisconsin Historical Museum
( Madison - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Madison . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Madison - USA
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Drawn to Yellowstone
In association with Wyoming PBS, Raechel Donahue of Wild West Productions has produced, written and directed a documentary loosely based on the Peter Hassrick book Drawn to Yellowstone, the story of how the art of Thomas Moran and the photography of William H. Jackson were used to persuade Congress to make Yellowstone into the world's first national park. Beginning with the native Americans who frequented the area, through the early expeditions in the 1800s and eventually traveling up to the present day, scholars and artists tell the story of this amazing 2.5 million acre wilderness and the incredible pull it has always held for artists of every kind.
Visit the DC National Museum of the American Indian
Heinz History Center Exhibit: Vietnam War
A new exhibition on the Vietnam War that tells the stories of the men and women impacted.
Letters from Siberia | Part Two
Dedication
The Hope and Spirit series is dedicated to the millions of victims of Soviet deportations--the men, women and children from all Soviet-occupied nations, and of all nationalities, religions, and races--who suffered two indignities: the brutality of forced exile, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and genocide, and the injustice of the subsequent denial, minimization and suppression of their suffering and victimization.
All of letters and photographs were graciously provided by the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Chicago. We would like to acknowledge the assistance of LRSC staff members, Dr. Augustinas Idzelis, President, Ms. Kristina Lapienyte, Executive Director, and Ms. Skirmante Migliniene, Archives Director.
Hope and Spirit exhibit and program
Curated by Audrius V. Plioplys MD
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
Chicago, Illinois
June 2011 through April 2012
Narrators:
Luka Saparnis, Sam De Sando, Audrius V. Plioplys MD
Copyright 2012 Audrius V. Plioplys
Washington DC - USA
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. Washington is the principal city of the Washington Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 6,131,977. Washington is described as the political Capital of the World, owing to its status as the seat of the United States Federal Government and numerous international institutions, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Washington is one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million annual tourists.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Citizen Soldier: The Prisoner of War Experience
Sponsored by Hillshire Brands.
Moderated by John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, this distinguished panel featured three American veterans who were prisoners of war in different conflicts. They discussed their experiences as POWs and how they endured their time in captivity.
John Borling is a highly decorated, retired Air Force Major General. He served worldwide in high level command and staff positions. A fighter pilot, he graduated from the Air Force Academy, National War College, and was a White House Fellow. During the Vietnam War, he was shot down by ground fire. Seriously injured, he was captured while trying to evade and spent over 6 ½ years as a POW in Hanoi. Currently, he occupies leadership positions in multiple civic and business organizations.
Donald E. Casey volunteered for the Aviation Cadet program of the U.S. Army Air Corps in December, 1942 at age 18 and was called for active duty in February 1943. On completing aerial navigation school on October 23, 1943 he was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant and was awarded his silver navigator's wings, still age 18 by two weeks. He flew as a navigator in B-17 Flying Fortress bombers on 28 combat missions out of England with the 379th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force until June 18, 1944 when his aircraft was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and he was captured by German soldiers and spent six months in Stalag Luft III the Great Escape prison camp in Zagan, Poland with 10,000 captured Allied flying officers. On returning to the United States in June of 1945, he was mustered out of the Army in time to enroll in Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in the Fall where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in June 1948. In 1952 he returned to his home city in Chicago, Illinois where he worked for a large life and health insurance company for three years while attending law school at the University of Loyola graduating in 1957.
Rhonda Cornum, Ph.D., M.D., recently retired from the US Army, and runs a large cattle and thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky, as well as serving as a consultant for health strategy and wellness initiatives in both governmental and private organizations. Trained as a biochemist, and later as a Urologist, she served in numerous positions over a 30 year career. Most notably as the commander of the Landstuhl Medical Center from 2003-2005, at the height of the War in Iraq. And from 2008 to 2012, as the founder and director of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness in the Army Staff G-3/5/7 division. During Operation Desert Storm, then Major Cornum served as a flight surgeon with an Apache unit, the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment. Sent on a search and rescue mission for a downed F-16 pilot, her helicopter was shot down on February 27, 1991. Five of the eight man crew died in the crash; Major Cornum was taken prisoner, with both arms broken, a serious knee injury, a gunshot wound, and other injuries. She recounted her experiences in the Gulf War in her 1993 book She Went to War.
Washington DC, USA | Street Walk 2019
Washington DC, USA | Street Walk 2019
Washington, DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. It’s defined by imposing neoclassical monuments and buildings – including the iconic ones that house the federal government’s 3 branches: the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court. It's also home to iconic museums and performing-arts venues such as the Kennedy Center.
Inside The Ku Klux Klan: KKK Explain Their Plan For Expansion
Inside The Ku Klux Klan: KKK Explain Their Plan For Expansion
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A GROUP of Ku Klux Klan members says it is planning military style combat training for the FIRST time in KKK history - exactly 60 years after the birth of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Klan bosses say an influx of military troops - existing members and new KKK recruits - will return to the US from overseas campaigns in a matter of weeks and plan to train the Loyal White Knights (LWK) faction, which has Klan members made up of men, women and children across at least three states. LWK leaders say they are preparing for a race war they believe will break out soon with the collapse of modern society, and will learn armed combat, hand-to-hand combat and survival skills. The controversial organisation is also targeting kids as part of a modern recruitment drive. Unlike members of the 20th century, today's KKK use social media and the internet alongside traditional methods like nighttime leaflet drops in local neighbourhoods to attract new members, including 13-17 year olds. These exclusive images show a recent KKK rally held at a secret location in a forest near Parkersburg, West Virginia. KKK expert Brian Levin says the main danger from the modern KKK doesn't come from the group forming an army, but from individual splinter groups with desperate new leaders trying to make a name for themselves. He said they can draw inspiration from extremist acts like a recent massacre in a Jewish Community Center in Kansas. Frazer Glenn Miller Jr., a former Klan faction leader, was arrested and charged in April with killing three people in the shootings, a 14-year-old boy with his grandfather and a woman.
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The 2018 National Memorial Day Parade - Live Stream
Now in its 14th year, the National Memorial Day Parade highlights American honor and sacrifice from across generations. The parade is the largest Memorial Day event in the country, and calls attention to the true meaning of the holiday - honoring our nation's fallen heroes.
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History of Chicago and The Great Migration: Carol Adams & Timuel Black - Shimer College Ideas Series
▶️ The documentary and oral history of Chicago & The Great Migration, a discussion between Dr. Carol Adams & Historian Timuel Black; Presented by The Illinois Institute of Technology in collaboration with Shimer College.
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This year Shimer College joins the City of Chicago in celebrating the centennial of the Great Migration during black history month and beyond. In anticipation for 2016, we are kicking off the remembrance and festivity with this video of two celebrated American contemporaries, Dr. Carol Adams and historian Timuel Black. In this talk, Adams and Carol draw on both oral narrative and documentary accounts of this watershed moment in American History, to paint a vibrant picture of pre & post civil rights movement Chicago—the struggles it faced and continues to face. Touching on the eclipse of slavery through the injustice insidious Jim Crow, the speakers relate how their own legacies of flight from the South were intimately born of the American racial story. As the battle against everyday racism as well as institutionalized racist culture & law persists into this century, this video talk assists in broadening public discourse past Martin Luther King and Malcom X toward a richer historical context in which these figures had and continue to have meaning for national dialogue.
This video talk is brought to you by Shimer College's new youtube program Bright Ideas: a Thought Series from Chicago. Check out and subscribe to our channel for free lectures, talks, symposia, artistic performances, and more.
----- Many Thanks to:
Zenobia Johnson-Black, Danielle Broadwater, Osa Buchner, Vanessa Harris, Patricia Martin, Pattie Petrowski, Isabella Winkler
Illinois Tech Undergraduate Admissions; Office of Student Access, Success and Diversity Initiatives; National Society of Black Engineers; Information Technology Services; and Black Student Union
Shimer College Office of Admission, Office of Student Life, and Quality of Life Committee
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Lisa Montgomery
Director of the Illinois Tech Center for Diversity and Inclusion
Stuart Patterson
Associate Professor of Liberal Arts, Shimer College
--About Shimer--
For those of you who are just discovering Shimer for the first time, Shimer is an alternative liberal arts College where students study a comprehensive “Great Books” program. This is just to say that our students take all seminar style classes instead of lectures, reading and discussing transformative books of the various fields of the liberal arts--math, science, philosophy, art, literature, psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science. We offer traditional four-year degrees, early entrance, and transfer paths. Oh, and of course, the financial aid and scholarships you need to make such a real education possible. Our biggest scholarship opportunities are the Dangerous Optimist Scholarship for transfer students transferring in the spring, and the Montaigne Scholarship for new students beginning in the fall. These scholarships, like our education, are designed to take you seriously—to meet you halfway and acknowledge the real seriousness of purpose and (in all honesty) the risk you take in applying.
[From: Wikipedia]
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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities; and, after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration (1940–1970), in which 5 million or more people moved from the South, including many to California and other western states. Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, to the other three cultural (and census-designated) regions of the United States. According to US census figures, Georgia was the only Deep South state which suffered net declines in its African American population for three consecutive decades from 1920–1950. More townspeople with urban skills moved during the second migration...
A reverse migration has gathered strength since 1965...As early as 1975 to 1980, seven southern states were net black migration gainers. African-American populations have continued to drop throughout much of the Northeast, particularly with black emigration out of the state of New York, as well as out of Northern New Jersey as they rise in the Southern United States.
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Wikipedia contributors, Great Migration (African American), (accessed November 2, 2015).