Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the citys history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. Then in about an hour, we will tour West Virginias capital building. Later, we hear the true life story of the movie Hidden Figures. In an africanamerican woman played in putting a man on the moon. We begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. Welcome to the West Virginia state museum at the state Cultural Center in c
Campaign. We have at last arrived 2022 the year of olmsted and we invite everyone from coast to coast to participate in a vast array of programs conferences tours and more around the country. Please visit olmsted 200. Org to learn more today we are going to start in mr. Olmsteads neighborhood the community of brookline, massachusetts. Some rare neighborhoods. Holy unique place in our history because they were home to an extraordinary confluence of talented individuals and that is surely the case in the green hill neighborhood of brookline, massachusetts there Frederick Law Olmsted henry. Richardson and Charles Sprague sergeant and others worked in close proximity shaping 19th and early 20th century architecture and Landscape Design in ways that continue to reverberate today. Thats why the National Association of olmsted parks and other organizations across the country fought hard to oppose proposed plans that surfaced in 2020 to destroy henry hopson richardsons home and properties asso
My book starts and ends with my own narrative of growing up on maui and Harbor Lights and just trying to find out why we dont have land. And so instead of feeling like disempowered about that, having gone through the documents and just being immersed in all that information, it, i feel more empowered to know that we knew what was going on then and we can figure out our way now in 1848, Hawaiian King kamehameha, the third set aside 1. 8 million acres of land on the islands known as crown land to be managed by the hawaiian monarchs. A group of businessmen assisted by the United States military overthrew through the monarchy and took control of the crown lands. In 1893, a five years later, it fell under territorial control by the u. S. Government. In 1910, queen lili oku lani sued t united stes, claiming her ownership of the crown lands. Queen lili uokalani is our last reigning sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was overthrown in 1893 and she passed away in 1917. So i look at all the
He is very explicit about this. He says what is not now decided is whether these provisions could be upheld under the congress clause. That is not decided as well. What is clear is that bradleys favorite of the law comment reaches less far juridical he\\\ly that has been imagined. Bradley is preserving it in the context where republican administrations are making headway and are using the Voting Rights theory that he has already provided. This context, we are using 15th amendment exemption and federal elections law i am keeping this concept available. He is the one who first made available in 1874, and it was the klan lawyers who attacked his theory in 1876. This is his first chance since then to rearticulate it. It is vital to see newspapers sevis see this. Newspaper coverage sees this concept. I have given you an excerpt the tribune the black citizen enjoys everywhere the same clinical and civil rights they are calling the vote a civil right. The same political and civil rights under