Created a political and Economic System unique among nations, a system that has led the United States to the pinnacle and wealth and world leadership. This series of programs is being presented to help all of us understand our advantages under our american way of life. For todays topic, lets join now a group of young people at the National Education Program Workshop in circe, arkansas. At of a notedom lectern young historian. The american adventure is an unusual one for a course of economics. While the american way of life is rather unusual, there is nothing quite like it in all of the world. All of us want to know more about our country but what , why is it the best place on earth . Why is it worth understanding, why is it worth saving . Why have wars been fought to protect it . During the 13 weeks of this course in the american adventure, our general purpose will be to answer many questions about the american way of life, and explore the workings of the American Economic and politica
In 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth england to america. And the pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony on the coast of massachusetts. We talked to robert stone about the virtual mayflower project, which uses Virtual Reality to recreate the ship and harbor from which they set sail using , avatars and 360degree images of the Virtual World, professor stone described what life might have been like for the pilgrims and crew. Some historic features we will port,e the 17thcentury plymouth castle, at a ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america but was deemed on seaworthy and returned to port. Prof. Stone virtual 1620 has been a labor of love, to use Virtual Reality to bring up part of england, the west of the country, black to life. So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship . And made their way out into the treache
History. In 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth, england, to america. And the pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony on the coast of massachusetts. We talked to robert stone about the virtual mayflower project, which uses Virtual Reality to recreate the ship and harbor from which it set sail, using avatars and 360degree images of the Virtual World, professor stone describes what life might have been like for the pilgrims and crew. Some historic features we will see in the virtual rendering are the 17thcentury report called the barbie can century port called the barbican, plymouth castle, and a ship that was set to sail with the mayflower to america but was deemed on seaworthy and returned to port. Prof. Stone virtual 1620 has been a labor of love, to use virtual to bring a part of , plymouth, in the west of the country, back to life. So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing
Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the institute of the bill of rights law, since she joined the faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award and the in the rising star category. Offessor larson is a scholar constitutional law and Legal Institution for the focus on how information dynamics affect the votes. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments, please help me in welcoming allie larson. Our discussion may be about an hour long and it may feel uncomfortable at times, that is ok, you may feel angry, that is ok. You may feel sad, that is also ok. All of these feelings arose for me when i was researching for an event and it is ok to feel something. This reminds us that we care. While slavery is not the beginning of the story, for the purposes of trying to dive into large topics in a very little bit of time we will start our evening
Girl for simon and shooter, the first chronicling of jack and bouquets life from 1950 to 1954, when she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today, and im very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, apparent should not really have a favorite child and i think in author perhaps should not have a favorite book, but i will say that this research of this book, and then the unique promotion that i did for the book, will always be a very important part of my life. I started researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children. Then at the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president hardening, and of course he d