Every saturday night, American History tv takes you to College Classrooms around the country for lectures in history. Why do you all know who Lizzie Borden is, and raise your hand if you had ever heard of this murder, the gene harris murder trial before this class . The deepest cause where well find the true meaning of the revolution was in this transformation that took place in the minds of the American People. So were going to talk about both of these sides of this story here, right . The tools, the techniques of slave owner power, and well also talk about the tools and techniques of power that were practiced by enslaved people. Watch history professors lead discussions with their students on topics ranging from the American Revolution to september 11th. Lectures in history on cspan3, every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv and lectures in history is available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcast podcasts. Approximately 4,000 seminole indians who live
Across america. Here is the recent program. I think people around here know a lot about ranching history. Texas tends to be about itself with its own history but this history is about middle american regional stories that havent really been told. It is almost like the isolation of the ranching history. It lookinghed without instead of looking within. Museumin the historical that is the largest Historical Museum in the state of texas if you count it by the number of artifacts. Cowboys,ition title is cattle, and culture. Here whenime curator we set up the show, both of us are native to kansas city. In why thisested space felt so familiar to us. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the permanent collection. And it turns out that there were over 1000 objects in the database. We started looking at what kinds of objects there were and we found such a good array of a variety of options. We needed to do a show that pulled the sister city hood. That amarillod might grow up lo
In we woke, oklahoma, to learn the story of the western tribe. Hello. My name is Louis Johnson and i am with the seminole nation of oklahoma. We are here at the Seminole Nation Museum located in the , capital of the seminole nation of oklahoma wewoka, oklahoma. What we have here today are different exhibits that portray the history of the people. As a people, before we were separated from our homes from , our original homes in florida. I am actually the twin chief. I am the assistant chief. Of the seminole nation of oklahoma. I came into office in 213. My 219, and im in second term. I have two more years to fulfill my term. Of over 500 native tribes in america, the seminoles are a tribe of people of interest. Part of that interest is the defiance the seminole put up during the conflicts and earlier history. To not be defeated. The only tribe in American History to Never Surrender when there was a war being fought against them. Would Never Surrender to the United States north side offic
Largest Historical Museum in the state of texas if you count it by the number and the exhibition title is cattle, cowboys and culture, kansas city and the Amarillo Building in urban west. The fulltime curator here and i are natives to kansas city. We were always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us. Michael started looking at the number of objects in the panhandleplains Permanent Collection that related to kansas city. It turns out there were over 1,000 objects on a database that he pulled up. We looked at the objects and we found a good array of a variety of objects we thought we needed to do a show that told and sterhood of amarillo kansas city. This closeness is basically around the train system and cattle industry that drew those two cities together. We tell the story of that in this show. In 1870, cattle being driven by the cowboys, meaning walked across the plains, like for example from texas to montana. So for example longhorns were the best kind of walking cattle
It runs from here to silverton. Case that the canyon is at least 80 miles in length. The river is probably more like 120 miles. It is the second largest canyon in the United States after the grand. It is not a single canyon. There are many canyons that branch off to the sides. We are standing in an area or we can see three canyons from where we are at right now. It is a much bigger system than people realize even with a brief visit to the state park. I grew up here in amarillo. As a young kid, i remember coming out in elementary school. And after that, as soon as i got my drivers license, i was driving out here every time i could, ringing friends. We would explore some of the caves. We explored some of the caves right down there. I can tell you it is much bigger than what you think it is from looking at it. When you get into the canyon with your hiking stick and boots, you better make sure you have a lot of water because it is much farther than you think. There are all kinds of treasur