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Top 11. Best Tourist Attractions in Yorktown - Virginia: Colonial Parkway, Yorktown Battlefield, American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Yorktown Beach, Yorktown Victory Monument, Riverwalk Landing. Colonial National Historical Park, The Gallery at York Hall, Yorktown Farmers Market, Grace Episcopal Church, Moore House,
American Revolution Museum is 'At The Ready'
(12 Apr 2017) With muskets polishes, flags aloft and one very commanding tent in place, Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution is at the ready.
After nearly two decades of planning, the museum that tells the dramatic story of the founding of the United States opens April 19, the anniversary of the first shots fired at the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 that ignited the war
The museum also reveals how a diverse population -- including women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free blacks-- helped push the Revolution and shape the conversation about liberty. It does so with interactive exhibits, theater presentations and large-scale replicas, in addition to original artifacts and the occasional whiff of gunpowder.
It's 118,000 square feet of history, but here are a handful of can't-and shouldn't-miss exhibits, details that surprise and small gems not to pass by:
Visitors can put their hands on an actual piece of history with the museum's 18-foot-tall replica of Boston's Liberty Tree, the first in America. There were once 13 liberty trees - one in each of the original Colonies - where the Sonts of Liberty met and plotted the Revolution.
Visitors can walk beneath the branches and read broadsides like those posted on such trees in the build up to the Revolution and period reproduction lanterns made by tinsmiths at Colonial Williamsburg will hang from the branches evoking 1766 Boston.
An actual piece of the Annapolis, Maryland Liberty Tree is embedded on display, and passers-by are encouraged to touch it.
The Annapolis tulip poplar was the nation's last surviving Liberty Tree. It was so damaged by storms and decay it had to be cut down in 1999.
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Heights Hydraulic Elevator @ Yorktown Community & Cultural Center - Yorktown Heights, New York
Shot 4/17/15 on the Samsung Galaxy S4 before it died. When I was here in 2012, I thought this elevator was a Thyssenkrupp due the sticker on the panel. But Thyssenkrupp actually maintains this elevator. The actual elevator brand is Heights cause the Heights elevator company is literally only 2 minutes away from here. This may be one of the first Heights elevator installation since this elevator had the old Armor buttons. I thought they were GAL for a very long time. Heights elevator does indeed come from right here in Yorktown Heights.
2018: The fixtures have been replaced by PTL.
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Wake Up to Newport News, VA | Planning a Great Vacation
Newport News, VA is a. With varied, interesting museums you won't see anywhere else, like The Mariners' Museum and Park, The Virginia War Museum, The Virginia Living Museum, and Lee Hall Mansion, art galleries like the Peninsula Fine Art Center (PFAC), and over 30 parks and historic sites, it's no wonder why people are quickly waking up to why Newport News, VA is the best place to stay on your trip to Hampton Roads. History or the beach—centered between Virginia Beach and Williamsburg, Newport News is a great place to stay to experience the best of both worlds!
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Bradley Bebee- First Christian School's 8th grade Washington DC trip
This coming fall, Bradley will be in 8th grade. He will have the opportunity to go to Washington DC on a 7-day tour. Any money raised above and beyond the cost for Bradley will be used to help other classmates also attend the trip.
Trip details:
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Welcome to Philadelphia! - The city of brotherly love and once our nation’s capital.
A Soldier’s Life - Learn more about infantryman life during the American Revolution.
Opportunity - “We thank God for the opportunity to learn about our country’s godly foundations.”
Meal Included: Dinner
Monday, October 2, 2017
National Constitution Center - The first museum in the world dedicated to honoring the U.S. Constitution.
Liberty Bell - Symbol of freedom throughout the world, hear the Liberty Bell still ringing in hearts.
Independence Hall - Enter the room where Declaration of Independence and Constitution were signed.
Philadelphia Museum of Art - A quick stop to run up the 99 steps featured in the “Rocky” movies!
Depart for Gettysburg! - Home to one of the most well-known battles of the Civil War.
Worship - “We thank God for freedom to worship without fear of persecution in America.”
Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Gettysburg National Military Park - Experience one of the most famous battle sites of the Civil War.
Gettysburg Battlefield Tour - On Little Round Top see the fields where 51,000 fell in three days.
Gettysburg - A New Birth of Freedom - Enjoy this captivating State-Of-The-Art depiction of the battle.
Gettysburg Cyclorama - This circular painting depicts Pickett's Charge, the climactic moment of the battle.
Depart for Washington, D.C.! - Monuments, memorials and historic buildings await us in this historic city!
Holocaust Museum - Dedicated to millions of victims of Nazi atrocities of World War II - never forget.
White House Photo Stop - Photograph the home of every American President except George Washington.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial - View the site that honors the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
FDR Memorial - Waterfalls, statues, and carved quotes interpret President Roosevelt's four terms.
Jefferson Memorial - Stand beside the 19 foot high statue of our 3rd President and view the Tidal Basin.
Peace - “We take time to pray for God’s peace upon our Land.”
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Photo Stop - This marble building houses the highest court in the land.
Library of Congress - As the world's largest library, it was designed to be used only by the U.S. Congress.
United States Capitol - View the Rotunda and visit National Statuary Hall and the Crypt.
Smithsonian Museums - A gift from British scientist James Smithson that includes 16 museums and galleries.
National Archives - View the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
Vietnam Memorial - Like a scar in the earth, with over 58,000 names, this black wall reminds us of pain.
Lincoln Memorial - Stand between the temple columns where the memory of Lincoln is forever enshrined.
Korean Memorial - A stirring outdoor memorial to the veterans of this forgotten war of 1950-53.
Wisdom - “We take time to pray for godly wisdom for our elected officials and justices.”
Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Iwo Jima Memorial - The famous Marine Corps flag-raising depicted in a 78 foot high bronze sculpture.
Arlington National Cemetery - Tomb of Unknowns and Kennedy family graves are on its hallowed hills.
Mount Vernon - Visit George Washington's mansion and tomb on the banks of the scenic Potomac River.
World War II Memorial - The first national memorial dedicated to all who served during World War II.
Washington Monument Photo Stop - This tribute to George Washington stands over 55 stories tall.
Sacrifice - “We take time to thank God for those who sacrificed for our nation’s freedom.”
Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner
Friday, October 6, 2017
Ford’s Theatre Photo Stop - View the building that houses the Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot.
Depart for Williamsburg! - This historic city once served as the capitol to the state of Virginia.
Jamestown Settlement - Wander through a Powhatan Indian Village, James Fort and aboard three ships.
Amer Rev Museum at Yorktown - See a musket fired at a Revolutionary camp and wander through a 1780’s farm.
Colonial Williamsburg - Lanthorn Tour - Walk with candle lanterns into the past with a costumed guide.
Direction - “We thank God for His direction in the founding of this great country.”
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Colonial Williamsburg - Study Visit - Debate law, make buckets, or curl wigs as you study colonial life.
Depart for Airport - Time to head home after an exciting journey!
Safety - “We pray for the future of our country and a safe journey home.”
Meal Included: Breakfast
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 ...
The Best Civil War Story - Chapter 10 by Jim Surkamp Chillin' With Stonewall
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Only some young men came home alive from the “Baptism of Fire” at Bull Run.
Then, war came to Shepherdstown homes and families in the fall of 1861.
R. D. Shepherd, Jr. was taken away to Old Capitol Prison, while his wife and sister in law watched - mute.
In December, 1861 the two armies had gone into winter quarters, unless. . .
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Chapter 10: A Love-Prospecting Henry Kyd Douglas Writes Tippie Boteler from a 2nd Virginia Infantry Encampment Amid the Worst Winter Weather Conditions in West Virginia, Yet Perhaps Unable to Warm Her Heart.
January, 1862 – A Chilling Account of “Stonewall” Soldierhood
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The Daltons: Or, Three Roads in Life. Published 1859 by Chapman and Hall.
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Beyer, Edward. (1858). “Album of Virginia” Richmond, VA.: published by s.n. - Rockfish Gap and the Mountain House
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The Mud March, Giovanni Ponticelli
Mud March - Harpers Weekly, March 19 1864.
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Charles J. Faulkner - wikipedia.org
William W. Loring - wikipedia,org
The Vidette - from “The long roll” by Mary Johnston; with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Published 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press in Boston, Cambridge. p. 642.
Edwin Forbes sketch of a Civil War Soldier in Winter Camp. - Library of Congress
Rainy Day in Camp (also known as Camp near Yorktown) by Winslow Homer.
Winter quarters on the Rappahannock- army huts of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Falmouth, Va. Frank Leslie’s “Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War.” (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896).
Winter bivouac - “Battles and Leaders. Vol. 1.” (1887). Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (Ed.). New York, NY: Century Co. p. 483.
Map showing Bath, Va. and the surrounding region - “Battles and Leaders. Vol. 2″. (1887). Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (Ed.). New York, NY: Century Co. p. 284.
Men sleeping; Men standing in the cold - Horace Carpenter. “Experiences of War Prisoners. Plain Living at Johnson's Island.” The Century; a popular quarterly Volume 0041 Issue 5 (Mar 1891). p. 705; p. 711.
Autumn Scene in the North Carolina Mountains by William Aiken Walker
Sherry Sir? 1890 by Thomas Waterman Wood
Autumn Leaves 1870 by Thomas Waterman Wood
Autumn Scene on the Edge of A Cornfield by William Aiken Walker
Lying man, sick and thin - T. H. Mann. “A Yankee in Andersonville.” The Century; a popular quarterly Volume 0040 Issue 3 (July 1890). p. 447.
Harper's Weekly, September 7, 1861, p. 569.
Winchester, Va. during Civil War - The National Park Service
A Visit from the Old Mistress 1876 by Winslow Homer
(detail) Girl Eating Oysters by Jan Steen
Ear of rye - wikipedia.org
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The revolutionary transformation of the art of war (1974) | ARCHIVES
May 9, 1974: How has the art of war changed since the American Revolution? Forrest Carlisle Pogue explains.
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Lecturer:
Forrest Carlisle Pogue, Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research of the Smithsonian Institute
Lecture delivered at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
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Vermont C. Royster
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Susan R. Stein: Thomas Jefferson: Planting the Arts in America
Susan R. Stein, Richard Gilder Senior Curator, Monticello
September 12, 2018
As an architect, designer, collector, and patron of the arts, Thomas Jefferson understood the importance of the arts in forging an American identity, especially through the recognition of its founders. This talk explores how and why Jefferson recommended that Europe’s most famous sculptor, Antonio Canova, receive the commission to execute the sculpture of George Washington for North Carolina’s state capitol.
This lecture is supported by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
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Session 2 - Effects of the Civil War on American Art
This symposium examines the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on American landscape and genre painting, along with the period's new medium of photography. The program is free and open to the public, and is organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Civil War and American Art.
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George Washington | Wikipedia audio article
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George Washington
00:02:30 1 Early years (1732–1752)
00:08:04 2 Early military career (1752–1758)
00:10:14 2.1 French and Indian War
00:17:24 3 Marriage, civilian life and political beginnings (1759–1774)
00:22:38 3.1 American Revolution
00:24:44 4 Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
00:27:40 4.1 Quebec, Boston, and Long Island
00:33:08 4.2 Crossing the Delaware
00:35:52 4.3 Trenton campaign
00:38:53 4.4 Brandywine, Germantown, and Saratoga
00:41:55 4.5 Valley Forge, Monmouth, and Southern campaigns
00:45:59 4.6 Sullivan expedition and Hudson River
00:47:24 4.7 West Point espionage
00:49:33 4.8 Yorktown victory, peace treaty
00:52:43 4.9 Resignation
00:56:00 5 Early republic (1784–1789)
00:56:12 5.1 Military retirement
00:57:04 5.2 Constitutional Convention
00:59:16 5.3 First presidential election
01:00:38 6 Presidency (1789–1797)
01:04:00 6.1 Cabinet and executive departments
01:05:32 6.2 Domestic issues
01:06:56 6.2.1 National Bank
01:08:46 6.2.2 Jefferson–Hamilton feud
01:10:43 6.2.3 Whiskey Rebellion
01:12:49 6.3 Foreign affairs
01:15:03 6.4 Indian affairs
01:18:50 6.5 Second term
01:22:43 6.6 Farewell Address
01:26:02 7 Retirement (1797–1799)
01:28:35 7.1 Final days
01:32:38 8 Burial
01:34:18 9 Personal traits
01:36:19 10 Religion and the Enlightenment
01:40:16 11 Slavery
01:43:35 12 Historical reputation and legacy
01:46:33 12.1 Papers
01:47:18 12.2 Monuments and memorials
01:47:46 12.3 Postage and Currency
01:48:16 13 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was one of the Founding Fathers and the first President of the United States (1789–1797). He commanded Patriot forces in the new nation's vital American Revolutionary War and led them to victory over the British. Washington also presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the new federal government. For his manifold leadership he has been called the Father of His Country.Washington was born to a successful family of planters and slaveholders in colonial Virginia. He had educational opportunities and at age seventeen launched a successful career as a land surveyor. He then became a leader of the Virginia militia in the French and Indian War. During the Revolutionary War he was a delegate to the Continental Congress which unanimously appointed him commander-in-chief of the Army, leading an allied campaign to victory at the Siege of Yorktown which ended the conflict. Once victory was in hand, in 1783 he resigned as commander-in-chief, declining further authority and power out of his devotion to republicanism.
As the country's premier statesman, Washington was unanimously elected President by the Electoral College in the first two national elections. He promoted and oversaw implementation of a strong, well-financed national government, but remained impartial in the fierce rivalry between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. When the French Revolution plunged Europe into war, Washington proclaimed a policy of neutrality while sanctioning the controversial Jay Treaty. He set numerous precedents that have endured, such as the cabinet advisory system, the inaugural address, and his acceptance of the Congressional title The President of the United States. His Farewell Address strongly warned against political partisanship, sectionalism, and involvement in foreign wars.
Washington owned slaves throughout his life from age 11, but became increasingly troubled by slavery and freed his slaves in his will. He was a member of the Anglican Church and the Freemasons, and he urged tolerance for all religions in his roles as general and President. Upon his death, he was famously eulogized as first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Washington has been widely memorialized by monuments, art, places, stamps, and currency, and he has been consistently ranked by scholars among the four greatest American presidents.
The Hōkūle'a: Indigenous Resurgence from Hawai'i to Mannahatta
Copresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and The New School
In the summer of 2016, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a will be arriving to New York City—Lenape Territory—as a part of its worldwide voyage called Mālama Honua (to care for our earth). The Hōkūle‘a uses no modern navigational instruments, but instead ongoing Hawaiian creative practices that read the sun, moon, stars, clouds, winds, waves, and the patterns of a diversity of nonhuman species to find their way. The voyage is a part of a global movement for the resurgence of Indigenous knowledges, languages, and land-based practices that are ever needed in the production of alternative futures for this historical moment. This symposium, which took place on Thursday, March 31, 2016, was a means to think through possibilities existent when Indigenous “subjugated knowledges” chart new epistemes for the twenty-first century.
Panel 2 was hosted by New York University and featured Na'alehu Anthony (The Polynesia Voyaging Society), J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University), Steven T. Newcomb (Indigenous Law Institute), and was moderated by Dean Saranillio (NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis).
Learn more at apa.nyu.edu