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Original Technorati articles tagged “american history”

• in Videos
  Bradley Manning: The Unlikely Hero
  You might be surprised.
  by kdbarclay / on Jul 7, 2012
• in Entertainment
  The Impact of 9/11 on the Convergence of Technology & Entertainment
  Storytellers tell the tales of 9/11 using text messages to satellite surveillance.
  by JerryFlattum / on Sep 12, 2011
• in TV
  The Civil War — 150th Anniversary Edition by Ken Burns
  Will the South rise again?
  by fcetier / on Apr 24, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “american history”

 

• Global Go Skateboarding Day Celebrates 10th Anniversary

  
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  The 10th annual Go Skateboarding Day will feature a series of...
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• When you see Count MOOCbot, scream and run away!

  
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  Daniel Luzer on Jeffrey J. Selingo’s College (Un)bound:   The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students , in a review entitled “ Revolution for Thee, Not Me :” [I]f we’re expanding access to college through alternative, technology-based systems, is this really expanding access to college ...
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• Ruins of William Carnochan’s Sugar Mill & Rum Distillery, Circa 1800

  
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  Though somewhat known locally, these ruins were new to me until I ran across a mention of them on Buddy Sullivan’s Coastal Georgia history website. I’ve driven by the area a hundred times and never thought to stop until yesterday and was I surprised! Text of Historic Marker on nearby Georgia Highway 99: “The ...
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• ‘A Post-Civil War View of Free Blacks’“This painting was...

  
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  ‘A Post-Civil War View of Free Blacks’ “This painting was created during Reconstruction, before racist imagery would re-emerge as the standard.” (Frank Buchser, The Volunteer’s Return, 1867. Oil on canvas, 97 x 77 cm. Basel, Kunstmuseum.)
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• Excerpt: The Strange History of the American Quadroon, by Emily Clark

  
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  Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popul ar historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. ...
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• Events May 21-23: A WWII Fighter Pilot’s Tale, Asian Pacific American Culture and the Mississippi River

  
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  Learn the history of the Mississippi River and our influence on it in the documentary Troubled Waters: Mississippi River Story, on view at the Anacostia Community Museum this Thursday. Photo courtesy of Flickr user bluepoint951 . Tuesday, May 21: Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture: Bud Anderson Aircraft ...
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• “Jefferson now tried to tone the Frenchman down, but it was like arguing with a tornado.”

  
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  [from the stabenow.com vaults, 3/29/2010] I went to Philadelphia a few years ago and saw Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and City Tavern where Paul Revere came galloping up with news of the British blockade of Boston. When I got … Continue reading →
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• Dust, Drought, and Depression #5.

  
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  Dust storm near Williston, North Dakota; October 1937; photo by Russell Lee ; Library of Congress image Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma; April 1936; photo by Arthur Rothstein ; Library of Congress image . Liberal (vicinity), ...
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• SC Slave Cabin Dismantled for Smithsonian Display

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave ...
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• Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Comanche

  
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  Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Comanche Book title: Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Comanche Author: Charles River Editors Book Description: *Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the ...
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• The Nostalgia Trap

  
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  I’ve written about the ways in which many conservatives seem to yearn for yesteryear. This morning, historian Stephanie Coontz offered a fascinating and compelling article in the NY Times on the dangers of nostalgia: In society at large, however, nostalgia can distort our understanding of the world in dangerous ...
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• The IRS Inquisition

  
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  On July 10th, the IRS held a press conference to formally apologize for elements and/or individuals within the organization who they now admit were specifically targeting conservative organizations during the 2012 election season for additional scrutiny. Any organization using the title “tea” or “patriot” was ...
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• Top 10 Powwow Dances

  
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  Native American culture is alive and well these days. It thrives in its own traditions, merits and creative output. The Powwow is a social gathering that combines all these aspects and more into one cohesive moment that lasts well into the memories of those that attend. This list here is what I consider to be [...]
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• Fast and Syrious: Obama’s Gun-Running Benghazi CIA Operation With Syrian Rebels Strawmen for Al-Qaeda — Videos

  
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    Rand Paul: I Believe Part of Cause for Benghazi Attack Was Gun-Running Operation Going Syrian rebel group Al-Nusra allies itself to al-Qaeda Nusra Front and al-Qaeda in Iraq are joining forces to bring back the Caliphate. A Caliphate Is Coming – GBTV George Galloway In Syria Rebels are ...
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• This Weeks New Books--Beggar Thy Neighbor and As American as Shoofly Pie

  
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  Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From the Roman Empire to the most recent financial crisis, this...
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• Friday funny: “Divisive gender and quota stuff” is all we do around here.

  
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  Don’t miss the cameo by Elaine Showalter, who appears in this video to restage one of my favorite scenes in American film history. Comedy gold! (Via Sophylou at True Stories Backward .)
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• The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

  
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  Like many Americans, Mark Mizruchi had grown increasingly distressed by the state of our politics. He was unhappy with the gridlock in Washington, the inability to accomplish even the most routine tasks of government, and the intransigence of those who have managed to hold the nation hostage to their extreme views. In ...
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• Win A Free Copy of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia

  
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  Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, by economic development consultant Gregory L. Heller, is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. "Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentless and determined of all planners, believed that...
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• Eyes of the Great Depression 091

  
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  Lower Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska; photographed by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration in November 1938. Library of Congress image .
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• Alex Trebek On Why ‘Jeopardy’ Represents the American Dream

  
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  Alex Trebek says, in many ways, his show represents ordinary people fulfilling the American dream—wit and skill bring success. All photos by Leah Binkovitz Longtime host of “Jeopardy!” Alex Trebek, has often called game shows, “the best kind of reality television” for the way they encapsulate the American ...
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