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Ocean of people falls in the line of march. Perhaps for a picnic to end this day, a truly special day our countrys birthday. As the last of the rockets red glare fades in the night sky the city looks forward to next year when it celebrates a day in old milwaukee and becomes again americas fourth of july capital. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts take you to museums and historic places. Next, we travel to philadelphia to learn about the museum of the American Revolution. Located ...

Oversee the creation of these exhibits. He is a ph. D historian in the American Revolution. At the same time, he has been a screenwriter for historical productions and hes created exhibits. So, hes deeply experienced, not just in the history and meaning of the revolution but the material culture, the objects, artifacts, the equipment that were used to bring about the revolution. Scott so, i pulled together a selection of objects from the collection. To give you some of the highlights and also gi...

Firefighters tell me has burned today. And there was a structure in there, as well. That may bring our structure loss total up to four buildings. The places evacuated south of the incident and over here west of the incident. We are on dam road, which is about here. Now, i tell you, that is about a threemile distance from the ridge line. One of the concerns were talking about is the ash and the embers. Our equipment, you can see just the amount of ash that was collected on this gray foam and if t...

We think its really important to document the everyday life of women and their diaries are wonderful ways to do that. Sometimes perhaps but they dont contain. So the first example that i want to share is a diary written by Eleanor Hamlin from portland this diary is from the 1940s and its unremarkable nest. January 51945. Cloudy and rainy downtown. That jim im assuming this is her son and brought him home to listen to president trumans message to congress. Rested for a while and then helen became...

Heart breaking plea to the thieves. And we are also watching the situation in north korea this morning. The u. N. That country with serious sanctions. In response to the missile testing that continues in that country. We will have more on the sanctions and what they are targeting coming up in a moment. And you watched giants last night. The panda, that guy is back. He was back on the field for the giants last night for the First Time Since 2014. And he had a big hit. Good to see. It started a ra...

This past weekend alone in philadelphia. Workers are working to see if the deaths in falls township may be linked to a possible bad batch of heroin. They are starting to cut it with fentanyl, much more powerful than heroin and they think they are getting heroin and not realizing its heroin. And its much more powerful. Even if the drug dealers are solved. Its no closer to solving the problem. We take one drug dealer off the street there are a couple more to take their place. We have to attack it ...

Takes you to museums and historic places. Up next we traveled to philadelphia to look at the museum of the American Revolution, we see highlights of the artifact collection. The idea goes back a century with the descendents. It was acquired by a minister at a valley forge area. It also launched the idea of the museum to tell the whole story of the revolution. They really have no peer. We have objects related that are truly unique. They bring to life his leadership, his incredible role in keeping...

But how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fi...

The text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that ...

As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with Rebecca Harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. Today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. So the text itself ...