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" We must grant the artist his subject,
his idea, his donné: our criticism is
applied only to what he makes of it. "
Henry James 1843-1916 |
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The act of imparting, transmitting,
exchanging ideas, information between
places or persons. Newspapers, radio,
television, telephones, sign language
and especially photography are many
forms of communication. Professor
Norman Thorpe, curator makes a
statement regarding photography: "The
photos show us things we would
otherwise have to imagine from verbal
descriptions." "That's why photos are
so important they tell us so much more
than any text does."
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Disasters |
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The United States has had it's
share of occurrences of major disasters
and catastrophes resulting from natural
causes and acts of man. The pain, loss
of life and suffering have been etched
in the hearts and minds of its people.
These notable events have served as
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How did the United States develop into
the world's richest and most powerful
nation from an inauspicious beginning as
a collection of colonies where currency
was in such chronically short supply
that all sorts of substitutes, e.g.
tobacco and wampum, had to be used as
money? Organized labor continues to be
an important political and economic
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Leaving their homeland behind, with only
the clothes on their back and valuable
things in their hearts and minds, such
as (family memories, songs, culture,
skills, stories from their home land,
traditions and foods) they went to
America, the gateway to the realization
of their hopes and dreams of a new and
better life. |
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American Indian Studies Programs were
created at a number of Universities,
which reflect the history, culture, and
richness of the Native American
experience in North America. |
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Individual States |
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"In dealing with the state we ought to
remember that its institutions are not
aboriginal, though they existed before
we were born: that they are superior to
the citizen: that every one of them was
once the act of a single man: every law
and usage was a man's expedient to meet
a particular case: that they all are
imitable, all alterable; we may make as
good; we may make better." R.W. Emerson
1841 |
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"For a people who are free, and who mean
to remain so, a well organized and armed
militia is their best security." Thomas
Jefferson: Message To Congress, Nov.,
1808 |
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"No man will ever bring out of the
Presidency the reputation which carries
him into it." Thomas Jefferson:
Letter to Edward Rutledge, 1796. This
section is a work in progress and will
be updated periodically.. |
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"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings
of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine
desire to impart to them what he himself believes to
be of value" Bertrand Russell |
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"Where slavery is, there liberty cannot
be, and where liberty is, there slavery
cannot be." Charles Sumner: Speech in
New York, Nov. 5, 1864. |
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"The colonists, who came to the
New World, were by no means a
homogeneous band, but rather a variety
of different social and religious groups
which settled in different locations on
the seaboard. Each came to the new
continent for vastly different reasons,
and they created colonies with very
different
social,
religious,
political, and
economic structures." |
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"If there was ever a just war since the
world began, it is this in which America
is now engaged." Thomas Paine: The
Crisis, 1776. |
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Growth Of A New Nation 1789 |
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"The structure of the government was
profoundly changed in 1789, when the
states replaced the
Articles of Confederation with the
United States Constitution. The
Constitution was signed on Sept. 17,
1787, and ratified by the required
number of states (nine) by June 21,
1788. It superseded the original charter
of the United States in force since 1781
(see
Confederation, Articles of) and
established the system of federal
government that began to function in
1789." |
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The Civil War and
Reconstruction |
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"The 'peculiar institution,' more than
any other single thing, that separated
the South from the North, was the
African-American slavery. Following the
1860 election to the presidency of
Republican Abraham Lincoln, 11 southern
states eventually seceded from the
Federal Union in 1861.They sought to
establish an independent Confederacy of
states in which slavery would be
protected. Thus, slavery became the
focal point of a political crisis."
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The Industrial Revolution
and Progressive Era 1877-1913 |
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"Each morning sees some task begun, Each
evening sees it close; Something
attempted, something done, has earned a
night's repose." H. W. Longfellow: The
Village Blacksmith, 1841 |
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"Time! what an empty vapor' tis! And
days, how swift they are: Swift as an
Indian arrow_Fly on like a shooting
star; The present moment just is here,
then slides away in haste, That we can
never say they're ours, But only say
they're past. " Abraham Lincoln: Unnamed
poem, c. 1828 |
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The evolution of how people got around
in the United States |
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"A Woman's right to make choices of
professions and earn a living wage." |
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Worship |
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"Freedom of every person to worship God
in his own way, everywhere in the
world." excerpt from one of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's four essential
human freedoms. |
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