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History Vs. Fake News Public Lecture, Firas Al-Atraqchi

Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc...

Public lecture and discussion with Alexander Heffner, host of The Open Mind on PBS— the longest running public broadcast in the history of American television— talks about the spread of disinformation on social media and the duty of journalists to factually document history during the virtual event, "History vs. Fake News."

Ambassador Of Cajun Music: Jimmy C. Newman, 1927-2014, Michael Green

History Faculty Research

In February 1765, the first boat with French-speaking refugees from Acadia in Nova Scotia arrived in the present-day state of Louisiana, where their description of themselves as Acadians changed, just as regional dialects change, into Cajuns. Their departure was part of what one historian of Cajun culture calls an “ethnic cleansing.” The British had acquired French Canada two years before and deported the Catholic Acadians to other colonies; a group of them chose instead to head for what they thought was French territory. It turned out that the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which had conveyed French Canada from France …

U.S. History Westward Expansion - Gilded Age: Developments Of Power, Anthony Sanchez

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This lesson encourages students to explore the changes in the distribution of power within the United States from the beginning of Westward Expansion to the end of the Gilded Age in order to evaluate the varying economic, social, and political effects the concentration of power can have on a society.

The Aesthetics Of Hysteria In Feminine Melodrama; On Fang Fang's Water Under Time (2008), Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Water under Time, the novel by the reputed Chinese fiction writer Fang Fang, appropriates and reconstructs the conventions of the hysteric narrative as an affective form of feminine history telling and writing. The novel, which accounts Hankou city’s past through the heroine’s life story, illustrates how feminine hysteria provides a gendered lens of reconstructed historical authenticity via the panorama of China’s early Republican period, the anti‐Japanese War, and the present new millennium. Transcending the official historical accounts, Fang Fang’s narrative features women’s innovative reconfiguration of contesting historical discourses about the city, the community, and the nation. This study of Water …

American Pluralism To 1877: A Resource Guide, Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College Library And Academic It

Open Educational Resources

This resource collocates open resources in American History to 1877, and organizes them by theme for all faculty teaching this course. It also provides students with links to books, essays, newspaper and journal databases offered at CUNY. Supplementing this material are images, audio and videos related to the period.

The guide is available at http://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/americanpluralism/

The XML file is available for download above.

Tampa Natives Show: Conversations With Al Fox, Mario Núñez, Steve Cannella, Al Fox

The Tampa Natives Show

You'll be spellbound as you hear Al Fox describe his incredibly fascinating career. Just wait until you hear about the places he's been and the people he's met over his 40-year career working inside the Beltway. This homegrown, son of Ybor City has come home to Tampa and Thursday will take of his time to share some intimate details of his adventurous life. You won't want to miss this very special edition of The Tampa Natives Show.

Tampa Natives Show: Mary Mulhern, City Councilwoman, Mario Núñez, Steve Cannella, Sally Núñez

The Tampa Natives Show

Tampa city council, Mary Mulbern, joined show to share her family history and her story growing up in Tampa.

Ottoman Architecture, Bernard O'Kane

Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc...

Lecture delivered by Prof. Bernard O'Kane on the Ottoman Architecture, as part of ARIC 271 Islamic Art & Architecture c 250-1800

Usu1320 - History And Civilization, Fall, 2007, Mark Damen

University Studies - OCW

The purpose of this course is to survey the development of various Western civilizations and the ways in which culture translates, transforms, and transcends the world around it. But, while we will survey history across many millennia and several continents, this is not strictly a "survey class." We are not obliged to cover "Plato to NATO" and, as such, this course will serve neither time nor topic but spread its colors where curiosity draws the eye.

Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles F. Lummis], [Ca. 1904 Nov]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

of course water for cities must be had at whatever cost but there is no need of going into the worlds park for it. for there is a glorious abundance in the snowy Sierra outside of it available for a dozen San Franciscos The great charm of the Hetch Hetchy scheme is the comparative cheapness of the required reservoir dams. The Tuolumne River flows out of the level floored Hetch Hetchy Valley through a narrow gorge forming an ideal dam-site. The Upper dam-site is also an attractive one to the engineer, while the basins above them are very extensive. The …