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what sites are on the list, and what makes them endangered? well, we have a variety of sites on this year s list that range from entire neighborhoods, barrio in elegundo dero inexas, the embarca san francisco, a different resource, a place that has been the subject of a great deed deal of protection, but is threatened by rising sea levels and the potential inadequacy of the seawall that protects the pier. the james river, close to our headquarters in washington, d.c., the james looked the james river is on the list, the threat is high-powered transmission lines that will mark the landscape that looks much like it did when captain john smith first explored the james river. a location in southeast utah, an important site for antiquities in the united states. and several others, several other places oliver the country. what is the criteria for getting on the list? the criteria is it that the place faces an imminent threat, and that there is still an opportunity ....
good evening. i am the executive director of the society of the cincinnati. it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker this evening. i want you all to do me a favor. this is his book. he s going to talk to us about it. the book is the road to concord: how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. he will defend that premise for us a little bit later. i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. it is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. i don t read quickly. the reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. it is graceful prose of an old-fashioned sort. and second, it is wonderfully researched, when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. all good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massach ....
secundo barrio neighborhoods in el paso, texas. we have the embarcadero in san francisco, which is a different type of resource. this is a fantastic place that has been the subject of a great deal of preservation work over the years, but it s threatened by rising sea levels. and the potential and adequacy of the sea wall that protects the pier. river, closer to our headquarters in washington, d.c. it is on the list for the second time. the threat there is a high power transmission line that will have 17 towers marring the landscape that looks very much like it did when captain john smith first sailed, first explored the james river. bears ears in southeast utah. a very important site for antiquities in the united states. and several other places as well, all over the country. now, what is the criteria for actually getting on the list? ms. meeks: the criteria is that the place faces an imminent threat and that there is still an opportunity to protect it. if the wreckin ....
story. my grandmother, apparently there was a play improv at the time i was a little girl and it was called madeleine in the brick factory. she decided name.ine was a great my mother never pronounced anything right. how to spell it. it was not until i went to school in switzerland that they decided my name was madeleine spelled the french way, but my ana, andme is still mari when i got my passport issued, when you have to sign your name, they would put madeleine, and they will say, this is not you, and i say, but it is. it was not until i was secretary of state and i could order up a passport that said madeleine [laughter] watch the entire program p.m. eastern. american history tv, only a c-span3. on monday, the national trust for historic preservation announces 2016 list of most endangered historic places. stephanie meeks is here with us to talk about some of the sites on the list of this year. stephanie, thank you for being with us. stephanie: thank you for ha ....
landscape architecture that we have been talking about this semester. it starts with a little bit of review. this is familiar landscape which everyone should recognize. this is prospect park. we look at central park and prospect park, the next great park in the they designed roads 1860 s. associated with this park. these were intended to be broad tree-lined streets spinning off the edges of the park in here. there are originally supposed to be four. two are actually built eastern and ocean parkway. and here is a view of ocean parkway from 1894. so if we think about this, which is the first one of the first references to parkways in the united states. olmstead and vox based their idea off paris. in this early conception of the parkway, they are thinking about a couple of rather simple ideas. first it is a wider than average street. second, parkways in the early conception were usually tree-lined. we ve talked a little bit about boulevards and essentially a parkway in ....