Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
Public service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. For nearly 60 years, route 66 campbell ferry travelers across the country. Drivers may have been getting their kicks on route 62. The story in historian john sellers shares that story with us. Road, fora for a good a good, easily traveled, easily identified highway across the country came with the very first motorcars. Burgeoning this building of automobiles that every small town was filling out these roads, and the demand to be able to open up a map and go from place to place on a map was just so strong that the government said we are going to start this deal of numbered highways. Known as thed was birthplace of route 66. Absolutely. Springfield had a man named john whoodruff, an attorney, would come near is an attorney for the railroad and was entrepreneur. He was an absolute genius marketing and making things happen. He was one of the committee of people that were p
Against the contrasting trajectories of the north and south, the growth of the cotton kingdom against the gradual you can watch this and other American History programs on her website where all of our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. Welcome to springfield, missouri on American History tv. Our cspan cities tour producers recently visited springfield to explore its rich history and literary culture. This city is located in the southwest part of missouri in the ozark mountain region. It is the thirdlargest city in the state, with a population of about 167,000. With help from our Cable Partners, in the next hour we will share some of the cities tour three with you. We begin by riding along with john sellers as he explains the citys key connections to the historic route 66. The idea for a good road, for a good, easily traveled and easily identified highway across the country came with the very first motorcars. Burgeoning this building of automobiles in every small town, he was fillin
Missouri, we took a driving tour museumcity with history on the square executive director john sellers. Were driving around the in springfield. And this Public Square is interesting. Its designed with the streets it in the center of each side, which is kind of rare. The corners. In but it was designed by one of the founders of springfield, campbell, who came here in 1830 with his family and wanted this to be the county designated newly Greene County of southwest donated 50 acres of land and the city sold 48 acres to get enough money for the courthouse and these two town remain, the county square. They built the courthouse in the center of the square and that became the side of Greene Countys county seat. And kind of got things started 1835 and 1838, the city was chartered. It all came about because what by now whicho go is an Historical Marker in the on whatsa building called water street. The reason its called water is was thethis intersection of several native american trails, becaus
Birthday february 23rd of this year. Swre the original handwritten lyrics on display. While most people recognize the song as a sing along from our Elementary School days, usually they didnt involve singing the fourth and the sixth verses which were much more a social commentary about how things really could be improved in our society. Yes, woody thought we had a beautiful land and he paints this gorgeous landscape of the things that he saw as he traveled from coast to coast. But he also wants to point out about things about the people and how were treating the people and how we should be taking care of each other better. There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me sign was painted, said private property but on the back side it didnt say nothing this land was made for you and me the idea of a land owner seeing people who were starving outside this beautiful land that he had and saying no, you have to keep out, this is private property didnt really go along with what woody tho