Gordon S. Wood: 2018 National Book Festival
Gordon S. Wood discusses Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson with David M. Rubenstein at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: An emeritus professor of history at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood is the author of Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. He has since written several critically acclaimed and widely read histories, including Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. His new book is Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Penguin).
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President Kennedy and His Legacy
Presidential scholars and historians discuss both the accomplishments and disappointments of the Kennedy presidency and its impact on following administrations. The conversation is moderated by Steven M. Rothstein, executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Canova's George Washington
Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, provides an introduction to the current exhibition, 'Canova's George Washington,' on view at The Frick Collection from May 23, 2018 to September 23, 2018.
75th Anniversary of D-Day Electronic Field Trip
Commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and embark on a virtual transatlantic adventure to the sites where D-Day history was made. Guided by student reporters from the United States, England, Canada, and France, this journey provides insights into the greatest amphibious invasion in history, in only one hour.
Discover the lessons and legacies of Operation Overlord, explore the coast of southern England and the iconic invasion sites in Normandy, France, and participate in a special remembrance at the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach.
Perfect for grades 7-12. Additional curriculum materials available at nationalww2museum.org/dday-eft.
Ring Figure Ceremony
Second class cadets receive their rings during a ceremony in Cameron Hall.
HARRY COOPER: THE 4TH REICH & AUTHOR OF HITLER IN ARGENTINA STILL ALIVE AFTER WWII
I will be interviewing Harry Cooper on Friday December 1st at 1pm PT.
Harry Cooper served for 4 years in the U.S. Air Force and 12 years Coast Guard (Aux.) and was a Flotilla Commander.
He has written 21 books and we talk about his bestselling book HITLER IN ARGENTINA with documented evidence that Hitler was still alive long after WWII.
Short bio written by Harry Cooper:
I am the world's foremost expert on the history of the German U-Boats and now also on the escape of Adolf Hitler. Unlike other researcher/writers who read a few documents and other people's books to produce their own book, which are almost always just their theories without proof or substance - I read the documents then I go where the history was made. I go to Germany and Austria on average two times each year since 1988 and have been to South America nine times in the past eight years where I take photos of these historic places and interview people who were there and give me first-hand information. I have just been contacted by a major television production company in Buenos Aires who will fly me down there to do a documentary on the tragic loss of the submarine ARA SAN JUAN and I have another fact-finding expedition scheduled in March 2018 to Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay. We are peeling back the layers like onion skin - peel back one layer and another is there with questions waiting to be answered.
Our biggest advantage lies in the fact that we have several thousand Members in 77 countries and many are active or retired Intel people. They are my eyes and ears in various locations to lay the groundwork and take me to the people who have the first-hand history.
For more info go to then to PREVIOUS TOURS. There are thousands of photos and explanations of this research.
KERRY CASSIDY
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Mary Surratt: Guilty or Not Guilty (Lecture)
In 1865, Mary Surratt became the first woman executed by the Federal Government. Join Ranger Karlton Smith and examine Mary Surratt's guilt or innocence in connection with the Lincoln Assassination conspiracy. Was she completely innocent or did she, as stated by President Andrew Johnson keep the nest that hatched the egg?
Christina Ferando: Displays of Power: Canova’s Sculptures of Greatness
Displays of Power: Canova’s Sculptures of Greatness by Christina Ferando, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University
June 13, 2018
One of the most talented sculptors of the early nineteenth century, Canova was frequently called on to immortalize the political, civic, and cultural leaders of Europe. When it came to his sculptures of powerful men and beautiful women, the artist was equally concerned with their display as he was with their form and carving. This lecture considers Canova’s heroic George Washington in light of his other depictions of greatness.
This lecture is supported by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
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Alonzo Cushing and Pickett's Charge - Ranger Karlton Smith
Join Ranger Karlton Smith for a special battle walk program, Faithful Unto Death - Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing and Pickett's Charge. Ranger Smith focuses on Cushing and the actions of Battery A, Fourth U. S. Artillery during Pickett’s Charge, the climactic moment of the battle. Alonzo Cushing became the sixty fourth recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions performed during the battle of Gettysburg.
Pettigrew's Brigade - Ranger Philip Brown
Ranger Philip Brown discusses the men of Pettigrew's Brigade on July 3, 1863.
Mario Lanza - Because
Mario sings one of his best known popular songs and he is accompanied by paintings appropriate to the lyrics.
Many June brides have included his song in their wedding ceremonies.
Guy d' Hardelot (pseudonym for Helen Rhodes) (circa 1858 - 1936) wrote the originally French song and Edward Teschemacher wrote an English version of the lyrics.
The original French lyrics:
Lorsque j'entends ton pas, comme en un rêve
Le fol espoir de te revoir s'élève,
Et vainement vers toi je tends les bras,
Quand j'entends ton pas.
Et quand divinement ta voix m'enchaîne,
Je vois s'évanouir toute ma peine,
Et tout ton être chante, et vibre en moi,
Quand j'entends ta voix.
Et puis tu viens à moi et je frissonne,
Tu prends ma main, et tout mon coeur se donne
A toi en un baiser brûlant d'émoi,
Car tu viens à moi!
recorded in French by Caruso, go to to listen
Photos of Mario Lanza are from his film, The Great Caruso. This and his other films are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies.
About THOMAS SULLY:
Six paintings used in this video are by Thomas Sully. Sully was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to the actors Matthew and Sarah Sully. In March 1792 the Sullys and their nine children immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Thomas's uncle managed a theater.... at age 12 or thereabouts Sully began painting and studied with his brother-in-law Jean Belzons (active 1794--1812), a French miniaturist, until they had a falling-out in 1799. He then returned to Richmond to learn miniature & Device painting from his elder brother Lawrence Sully (1769--1804). After Lawrence Sully's death, Thomas Sully married his sister-in-law, Lawrence's widow, Sarah Annis Sully and not only took on the raising of Lawrence's children but fathered an additional nine children with Sarah himself.... Sully became a professional painter at age 18 in 1801. He studied portrait painting under Gilbert Stuart in Boston for three weeks. After some time in Virginia with this brother, Sully moved to New York, after which he moved to Philadelphia in 1806, where he resided for the remainder of his life. In 1809 he traveled to London for nine months of study under Benjamin West.
Sully's 1824 portraits of John Quincy Adams, who became President within the year, and then the Marquis de Lafayette appear to have brought him to the forefront of his day.... Sully's own index indicates that he produced 2,631 paintings from 1801, most of which are currently in the United States. His style resembles that of Thomas Lawrence. Though best known as a portrait painter, Sully also made historical pieces and landscapes. An example of the former is the '1819 Passage of the Delaware', now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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A list of the artists and their paintings used in the order of their appearance in the video:
1) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) -- Fanny Kemble, 1834
2) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) - Lady with Harp (Eliza Ridgely), 1818
3) George Sheridan Knowles (1863 - 1931) -- title unknown
4) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) -- Mrs. James Montgomery, Jr.
5) Marie-François Firmin-Girard (1838-1921) -- title unknown
6) Julius Sergius von Klever (1850 -- 1924) -- title unknown
7) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) -- Francis Hopkinson
8) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) -- Miss Susan Hall, 1837
9) Charles Edward Perugini (1839 -- 1918) -- Lovers in a Garden
10) Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848 -- 1925) - Gather Ye Rosebuds Whilst Ye May, 1905
11) artist unknown, [Circle of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783 -- 22 July 1853)] - Portrait of A Young Couple
12) Thomas Sully (1783-1872) -- Mary Ann Paton (Mme. Wood)
13) Peder Severin Kroyer (1851 - 1909) - Edvard And Nina Grieg At The Piano, 1892
14) Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852 - 1929) - Blessing Of The Young Couple Before Marriage
15) Franz Xavier Winterhalter (1806-1873) - Pauline Sandor, Princess Metternich
9/11 Memorial Ceremony Part 1
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Hitler and Eva Braun's Disturbing Wedding
For 14 years, Hitler refused to marry his mistress Eva Braun, fearing it would alienate his female fans. Toward the end of his reign, he changed his mind--but their wedding came with a sinister caveat.
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12/11/18 MNPS Board Meeting
Coverage of the MNPS Board Meeting held December 11, 2018
Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:56 1 Biography
00:04:05 1.1 Early life: 1914–34
00:10:04 1.2 GALCIT Rocket Research Group and the Kynette trial: 1934–38
00:18:12 1.3 Embracing Thelema; advancing JATO and foundation of Aerojet: 1939–42
00:31:02 1.4 Foundation of JPL and leading the Agape Lodge: 1942–44
00:40:48 1.5 L. Ron Hubbard and the Babalon Working: 1945–46
00:50:10 1.6 Work for Israelis and espionage accusations: 1946–52
01:00:21 1.7 Death: 1952
01:04:46 2 Personal life
01:04:55 2.1 Personality
01:06:47 2.2 Professional associations
01:07:20 3 Philosophy
01:07:29 3.1 Religious beliefs
01:10:52 3.2 Politics
01:15:47 4 Legacy and influence
01:24:16 5 Patents
01:24:24 6 See also
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John Whiteside Jack Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
Born in Los Angeles, Parsons was raised by a wealthy family on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena. Inspired by science fiction literature, he developed an interest in rocketry in his childhood and in 1928 began amateur rocket experiments with school friend Ed Forman. He dropped out of Pasadena Junior College and Stanford University due to financial difficulties during the Great Depression, and in 1934 he united with Forman and graduate student Frank Malina to form the Caltech-affiliated Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT) Rocket Research Group, supported by GALCIT chairman Theodore von Kármán. In 1939 the GALCIT Group gained funding from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to work on Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) for the U.S. military. Following American entry into World War II, in 1942 they founded Aerojet to develop and sell their JATO technology; the GALCIT Group became JPL in 1943.
After a brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to Thelema, the English occultist Aleister Crowley's new religious movement. In 1941, alongside his first wife Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). At Crowley's bidding, he replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Avenue. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 due to the Lodge's infamous reputation, along with his hazardous workplace conduct.
In 1945 Parsons separated from Helen after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for L. Ron Hubbard, he conducted the Babalon Working, a series of rituals designed to invoke the Thelemic goddess Babalon to Earth. He and Hubbard continued the procedure with Marjorie Cameron, whom Parsons married in 1946. After Hubbard and Sara defrauded him of his life savings, Parsons resigned from the O.T.O. and went through various jobs while acting as a consultant for the Israeli rocket program. Amid the climate of McCarthyism, he was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry. In 1952 Parsons died at the age of 37 in a home laboratory explosion that attracted national media attention; the police ruled it an accident, but many associates suspected suicide or murder.
Parsons' occult and libertarian writings were published posthumously, with Western esoteric and countercultural circles citing him as one of the most significant figures in propagating Thelema across North America. Although academ ...
City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting December 3, 2019
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Symposium of Architectural History The Whiteness of 19th Century American Architecture
This symposium examines the racial discourses that subtended American Architecture movements during the long nineteenth century. Explore this site to learn more about the specific themes, case studies and speakers that will be featured at this event. The Whiteness of American Architecture is organized by Charles Davis II, UB assistant professor of architecture.
About the symposium
“The Whiteness of 19th Century American Architecture” is a one-day symposium in architectural history organized by the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. This symposium is an outgrowth of the Race + Modern Architecture Project, an interdisciplinary workshop on the racial discourses of western architectural history from the Enlightenment to the present.
Participants
- Professor Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia GSAPP
- Dianne Harris, senior program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, architectural historian
- Kathryn ‘Kate’ Holliday, architectural historian
- Charles Davis, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University at Buffalo
Race + Modern Architecture Project
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The “Whiteness & American Architecture” symposium continues the research that began with the Race + Modern Architecture Project, a workshop conducted at Columbia University in 2013. The forthcoming co-edited volume, Race and Modern Architecture presents a collection of seventeen groundbreaking essays by distinguished scholars writing on the critical role of racial theory in shaping architectural discourse, from the Enlightenment to the present. The book, which grows out of a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-year research project, redresses longstanding neglect of racial discourses among architectural scholars. With individual essays exploring topics ranging from the role of race in eighteenth-century, Anglo-American neoclassical architecture, to 1970s radical design, the book reveals how the racial has been deployed to organize and conceptualize the spaces of modernity, from the individual building to the city to the nation to the planet.
Sponsors
- Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture - Columbia University
- Darwin D. Martin House Complex - Buffalo, NY
- School of Architecture - Victoria University of Wellington
- UB Humanities Institute - University at Buffalo, SUNY
- School of Architecture and Planning - University at Buffalo, SUNY
Purpose and Themes
Our symposium will outline a critical history of the white cultural nationalisms that have proliferated under the rubric of American Architecture during the long nineteenth century. This theme will be explored chronologically from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and regionally from representative avant-garde movements on the East Coast to the regionalist architectural styles of the Midwest and West Coast. Such movements included the neoclassical revivals of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, the Chicago School of Architecture and the Prairie Style, the East Bay Style on the West Coast, the Arts & Crafts movement across the continent, and various interwar movements that claimed to find unique historical origins for an autochthonous American style of building.
The five architectural historians in attendance have been charged with providing some preliminary answers to the central question of these proceedings:
What definitions of American identity have historically influenced the most celebrated national architectural movements of the long nineteenth century, and how was this influence been manifested in the labor relations, ideological commitments and material dimensions of innovative architectural forms?
Vision & Justice | Friday | Part I || Radcliffe Institute
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
“Vision & Justice: A Convening” considered the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice. Wynton Marsalis opened the morning session on Friday, April 26, with a musical performance. Later that morning, discussions covered a range of topics: representation in civic spaces, the “adultification” of black girls, the Flint water crisis, and more.
MORNING SESSION: Sanders Theatre
Welcome Remarks: Alan M. Garber (0:01)
Darren Walker (6:53)
Sarah Lewis (13:29)
Video by Lance Oppenheim (19:40)
Musical Opening
Wynton Marsalis, Dan Nimmer, Taurien (TJ) Reddick, and Phillip Norris (30:30)
Cultural Citizenship
Wynton Marsalis, Diane Paulus, and President Emerita Drew Gilpin Faust (41:44)
Race, Culture, and Civic Space
Introduction: Mohsen Mostafavi (1:15:20)
David Adjaye, Theaster Gates, and Sarah Lewis (1:23:44)
Tribute to LaToya Ruby Frazier
Teju Cole (1:49:02)
Video by LaToya Ruby Frazier (1:56:53)
Race, Justice, and the Environment
Focus: Discovering the Flint crisis
Introduction: Sarah Lewis (2:00:59)
Chelsea Clinton and Mona Hanna-Attisha (2:03:50)
Race, Childhood, and Inequality in the Political Realm
Introduction: Claudine Gay (2:29:13)
Robin Bernstein, Yara Shahidi, and Naomi Wadler (2:36:18)
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2018 Bowen Lecture with Craig Steven Wilder - Colleges & Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Craig Steven Wilder is currently the Barton L. Weller Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is a historian of American institutions and ideas. Professor Wilder’s most recent book is Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.
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