The Old Homestead House Brothel Reveal - August 21, 2019
Join Old School Paranormal as they investigate the creepy goings-on at The Old Homestead House Brothel Museum in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
The Sporting Ladies on Meyers Avenue of Cripple Creek
From the documentary Treasure of The Cripple Creek Mining District, this segment is on legal prostitution in the City of Cripple Creek, Colorado during the gold rush in the late 1800's.
Colorado Experience: Doc Susie
After earning her physician's license in 1897, Anderson struggled to find work in Denver where people didn't believe in women doctors. She did not let this stop her love of medicine and moved to Fraser, where she cured lumberjacks, tended to miners' injuries, and even cared for animals. Meet the tenacious treasure of Fraser, one of the first to practice medicine in the state of Colorado
Illinois Adventure #1605 Jersey County Historical Museum
Operated by the Jersey County Historical Society, the Jersey County Historical Museum is located at the Cheney Mansion site just north of downtown Jerseyville. The Mansion was built after the Civil War and incorporated the 'Little Red House'. 'The Little Red House, constructed in 1827, was the first frame structure in Jersey County. The building served as a tavern, stagecoach stop, and a bank. The Cheney Mansion is furnished with 19th century pieces, houses a collection of ladies and gentlemen's clothing, and features a complete kitchen from the 1800-1900 era. The Little Red House was utilized as a station for the Underground Railroad until the end of the Civil War and included a false cellar that was used to hide slaves searching for freedom.
9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries
9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries.
1. The Murder of Arnold Rothstein at the Park Central Hotel.
Known by many names – A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain - Arnold Rothstein seemed more myth than man....
2. The Wall Street Bombing.
At the stroke of noon on Sept. 16, 1920, a bomb exploded along Wall Street, killing 38 people and maiming hundreds more. It was the worst terrorist bombing in the United States until the Oklahoma City attack in 1995, the worst in New York until the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center....
3. The 1964 World’s Fair's Buried Underground Home
It's a spacious, secure home that could probably fetch a pretty penny on today's NYC real estate market - the only problem is that no one knows if it still exists. The mystery centers around The Underground World Home....
4. The American Museum of Natural History Jewel Heist
On the night of October 29, 1964, three young Americans from Miami, Florida, made the national headlines in what America called the 'jewel heist of the century'. The target was a jewel collection taken from the American Museum of Natural History in New York...
5. The Lost Eagles of Pennsylvania Station.
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965....
6. The Lost Locomotive in the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.
With continued silence from the DOT, we are dead in the water, with the potential of a major historical find right under our feet in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month, Bob Diamond....
7. The Cow Tunnels of New York City
In the late 19th century, there were some two million cows being herded in the streets of New York City. It’s long been rumored that underground “cow tunnels” were created to ease the congestion, but evidence (archeological or otherwise) has been hard to come by and exact locations have not been verified...
8. The Lost Bogardus Building
A building that once stood in downtown New York City in the Washington Market area was stolen not once, but twice in its history. The area was targeted for urban renewal in the 1960s, but because the Bogardus Building....
9. The Cornerstone of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Much is known about the cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. As the Archdiocese of New York embarks on a five-year, $175 million renovation of what has been described as the nation’s largest Roman Catholic Gothic sanctuary, architects and historians have meticulously reviewed every detail of James Renwick Jr.’s original blueprints.....
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What's in a Name? Encampment - Our Wyoming
Small towns with storied histories dot the Wyoming landscape. In this episode we look at Encampment and how it’s past present and future help make Wyoming unique.
Adam Reich ─ Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
Join co-author Adam Reich for a discussion of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart.
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their working conditions and their lives.
In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.
Adam Reich is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Hidden Truth: The Young Men Navigating Lives in and out of Juvenile Prison (2010); With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital (2012); and Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States (2014).