Glass to let in more like an interior spaces. This class is an hour and a half. Professor leslie lets get started. Good afternoon to everyone and our expanded classroom today. I want to start quickly with where we are in the course and how this intersects with American History in particular. We have been looking at the history of Building Construction in the west, and we have gotten to the point where we have it developed still amount a fair amount of building structures. We have a couple of new materials we are working with iron and also glass. Finally, we have this conception that we talked about last week from the french theorist who is thinking about iron and iron framing in particular, realizing that late in his career that there is a possibility of having a metal frame that is self structured with a shrill around its meet of masonry that may be selfsupporting. With a shell around it made of mtetal masonry. We wont see how that is developed in a particular place in a particularly
Thomas leslie talks about the changes in 19thcentury Architecture Design and technology. New materials and Foundation Methods allowed buildings to be built collar and built taller and incorporate more more glass to let in more light in interior spaces. This class is an hour and a half. Professor leslie lets get started. Good afternoon to everyone and our expanded classroom today. I want to start quickly with where we are in the course and how this intersects with American History in particular. We have been looking at the history of Building Construction in the west, and we have gotten to the point where we have it developed still amount a fair amount of building structures. We have a couple of new materials we are working with iron and also glass. Finally, we have this conception that we talked about last week from the french theorist who is thinking about iron and iron framing in particular, realizing that late in his career that there is a possibility of having a metal frame that is
I would say, happy womens history month. I will say instead, happy very last hours of womens history month. We are delighted to be here tonight. I hope some of you have taken the opportunity to see the exhibit upstairs. Its absolutely fantastic. I hope that you can take a look at the wonderful archive and the museum that we have on the corner of second and constitution. Our program tonight will allow us to talk in greater detail about the intersections between temperance and suffrage. They are a little bit hazy in history. What we have found as we have been preparing for this is that there is not a whole lot of recent scholarship on this. The track we decided to take was to look at the women themselves. It was the women whose thoughts and origins and what they were fighting for, for their families and their nation, went into the organizations they were able to move forward and that became the movement themselves. We will talk a little bit about the way the women galvanized for social,
Language so that you can take language and put it into high gear and then slow down. That is something shakespeare lets you do if you are a politician. The night, the night. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Iowa State University professor Thomas Leslie talks about the changes in 19thcentury Architecture Design and technology. New materials and Foundation Methods allowed buildings to be built taller and incorporate more glass to but in more light to interior spaces. This class is an hour and a half. Professor leslie lets get started. Good afternoon to everyone and our expanded classroom today. I want to start quickly with where we are in the course and how this intersects with American History in particular. We have been looking at the history of Building Construction in the west, and we have gotten to the point where we have it developed a fair amount of building structures. We have a couple of new materials we are working with iron and also glass. Finally, we have this conception that we
Churchill said to kennedy he held out his hand and he said i am so sorry for your loss. Joe junior had died during the war and churchill was sincere and he said to churchill, what good was it all . Churchill looked at him unbelieving world war ii had destroyed in churchills mind hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy. It had saved western civilization so churchill thought. Kennedy lazed hatred at him. As booktv looks back at our 15 years on cspan2 we bring you programs from our archives. Erik larson appeared on booknotes in 2003 to talk about the devil in the white city. In the book mr. Larson tells the story of two men architects Daniel Burnham and. Or henry h. Holmes who played prominent roles in the history of 1893 chicago worlds fair. This is about an hour. Cspan erik larson, author of the devil in the white city, you write early in your book that this book is about the evanescence of life. Whats that mean . Guest really, what i was struck by, as the book pr