Perpetuated. What i like about this is you get to not only debunk these things but try to figure out where they started and why people grew so attached to them because that also tells you a little bit more about how people understand the past and how they use it or misuse it. So, remember earlier in the semester we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. Matthew and he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . He said there isnt any contemporary evidence, Andrew Jackson never mentions planting a tree, theres nothing in newspapers so it seems like this is a story that has these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually first known exterior photograph of the white house taken by a welsh born photographer named john plume jr. In january 1846. So if youre looking
Times, whether you were researching them on the internet or doing research for your papers in this class but there are a number of stories that continue to be circulated and perpetuated. What i like about this is you get to not only debunk these things but try to figure out where they started and why people grew so attached to them ecause that also tells you a little bit more about how people understand the past and how they use it or misuse it. So, remember earlier in the semester we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. I think a number of you went into detail about the Jackson Magnolia. Alex, was it you who wrote about the Jackson Magnolia . You already know this. But think about to when johnson pivska visited the class and we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. Matthew and he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember wh
A call for change from bavarians exit polls coming out of the southern german state suggest the decade long dominance of the conservative c. S. U. Party is over polls show support for the c. S. U. Party is down by more than twelve per cent while the greens are the big winners with support up by nearly ten per cent and becoming the various second Strongest Force within the State Government we have the independent free voters following behind with just over eleven percent the far right a. F. D. As we can see there with eleven percent but really the big headline here the c. S. U. Dipping you see thirty five percent of the vote there and the greens at eighteen percent this is expected to further rattle Angela Merkels Fragile Coalition government in berlin the conservative c. S. U. Party has dominated the Political Landscape of bavaria for decades but that will no longer be the case. Todays a people for more on this what it all means lets break it down with our chief Political Editor there
Thursday, November 9, 2023 MUSEUM PRESENTATION: The Saratoga Springs History Museum is pleased to present a talk on “Clarence Dart and the Tuskegee Airmen” by Warren Dart, taking place Thursday, November 9, at 7 p.m. in the Canfield Casino parlor. During World War II, Lt. Col. Clarence Dart served in the Tuskegee Airmen, a special […]