The city is home to fantastic caverns. Americas only drivethrough cave. Learn more about springfield all weekend here on American History tv. I begin researching the delaware townsite in 1998. One of the township records and some of the fieldnotes denoting the location of what became known as delaware town. Or delaware village. I believe it was 400 square miles in the southwest part of the state including springfield. And where delaware town was south of springfield just across the Greene County line. Over the course of five field seasons, we documented several delaware village site dating between 18221830. They probably were more europe and eyes to or americanized than most other groups because of the fact that they had been in contact with euroamericans very early. Where were they from . The delaware. Whatware valley became known as the delaware valley. And came in contact very early with english, dutch, french even peoples. And probably signed more treaties than any other group and
Is the last remaining structure of the pueblo. In the mid1770s, california at that time was settled by the spaniards. And they had two different establishments at the time. You had operated and founded by the military. And then you had the missions that were established by the priests. Up and down the california from san diego up to San Francisco. At the time. Until that time you had no civil basically a city type of establishment. And so during that time you had a lot of native Americans Still running throughout california. And it was the attempt of the spaniards to try and settle and christianize the original settlers the native americans that were established here. At this time also you had the intrusion from the french, british, and russian interest coming into the pacific coast. So the spaniards are looking at a way of settling and kind of controlling the region that we know of california at the time. The difficulty was sea travel going up the coast was against the trade winds. Fr
Nra nationalthe Sporting Museum at Bass Pro Shops in springfield, missouri. The largest firearms related venue in the country. There are about 1000 firearms on display here at the museum. Overall, the nra museums system has custody and takes care of almost 10,000 firearms. The theme of the museum is hunting, conservation and freedom. Visitors are going to see the evolution of firearms in terms of their use in hunting. They will also learn the story of conservation in america and for that aspect, we focus on our Theodore Roosevelt conservation gallery. Theodore roosevelt was considered the grandfather of the american conservation movement. A very active hunter and sportsmen but also a very vigorous conservationist, responsible for founding the National Park system. And one of the folks who began the concept of conservation of wildlife. A theme throughout the museum and the other nra museums is the role of firearms in American Life from the earliest days up through today. How they have b
Conservation in culpeper, virginia, preserves and provides access to the librarys vast collection of films, television, radio broadcast home and found recordings. American history tv visited the campus to learn about the earliest Public Affairs films, including u. S. President s the , spanishamerican war, world war i, and the first ever political ad created in 1912 by the democratic party. My name my nigh is mike mashon head of the , moving image section of the library of congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Today we are at the packard campus in culpeper, virginia, a facility that opened in the summer of 2007 dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. In the late 1880s, edison started thinking about doing for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear. So began a whole series of experiments with Motion Picture film. Most of that work was done by his engineer, a guy named dickson,ennedy sometimes an unjustly forgotten figure in history. It was dic
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