1957 a look at the issue of housing discrimination. All of the way home dramatizes the flurry of rumors and prejudice that arrive in a fictional white suburb. Written by political activist it was promoted by over a dozen civil groups including the naacp and the National Urban league. A quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in the middle of the 20th century. When you look for a house, what are you looking for . What do you see . People who lived in square fine ample houses. The ferocious slums. Many still stand, many torn down, rebuilding among the people and neighbors. A way being made for the projects. Signs of change in all of the cities. And still, the dark red blindness of walls. The cities reach out. The ghettos burst out after a long while. Every kind. Borders into the sunny pushing out into the new country waiting for the filters. Some of us still live in uniformity. But the sifting has begun. When you look further, when you look for a house, you see the citys reach. What are you
The suburbs, almost as much written about as madison avenue, and just as much in need of reflection. Like madison avenue, life in the suburbs has its good moments, and others not so good. Oh, no oh discouraged, disgruntled . Heck, no. Theyre glad to be here. Remember . Weve got to move and so they joined the stream of family life in the suburbs, soon to become part of this familiar sight. Soon to be a part of its familiar sounds. Anybody home . [ laughter ] [ whistling ] [ humming ] [ laughter ] [ sound of Running Water ] these are what redbook means by its young adults. People in a certain living situation with particular interests and particular goals. These young adults begin to discover redbook about the time they apply for their marriage license, start life in their own homes, have their first baby, take out their first loan, and they stay with redbook through their busiest years. As redbook sees them, theyre an energetic lot, a carefree lot. Even though so suddenly plunged into f
Production of houses, and the rise of automobiles helped great an alternative to urban living. His class is about an hour. Today we are talking about the suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Almost all of you. What kind of activities would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Proud okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Like being from nowhere. Friss good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. A utopia. Friss a utopia. Family oriented. Friss family oriented. Nicholas were you gonna Say Something . I love this. Good. Some people utopia. Maybe this is different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary suburbia. This is an engagement shoot. A young couple, taken to the suburban street for their engagement. People get married, they take engagement photos. This went around the internet for a while and lots of people, including myself, laughed at it.
As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
Threetoone. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Welcome back to the emerging civil war symposium. Callext speaker i fondly professor henry hill, because by day he is a music teacher. Henry hill no relation to ambrose powell. Nevertheless a delight. Dan welch is the secretary of organization. Hes the author of the book the last roads north and he works as a historian at the gettysburg park. He is here to talk about one of the lesserknown, but vital actions of the battle on coal s hill. Culp ladies and gentlemen, dan welch. I want to begin by thanking all of my friends and colleagues at emerging civil war, chris, chris weitz at the American Battlefield trust for having me to present this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. Over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of joshua chamberlain, Little Round Top, Seminary Ridge, but what will often get lost of the stories on the union right and l