SLAVERY & THE MAKING OF AMERICA (PBS‚ DVD) Each episode is contained on its own DVD; there is a brief intro before the start of each transcript. Times are approximate; PBS provided the transcript‚ but the times and highlighting has been added by the reviewer. There are some remarkable scenes and commentary in the first three episodes. For the last one‚ the compelling road of Robert Smalls is the focus‚ if you are looking for an angle on Civil War/Reconstruction. If you want to show some historians’
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most beloved First Ladies and an active equal rights champion. She dedicated her life to making America a better place for everyone‚ and throughout it did much good for the world. A true leader and an intelligent mind‚ she changed America forever. One of the most remarkable things about Eleanor is her determination to see good for everyone. She stood up for underdogs‚ anyone who was treated unfairly‚ and helped them fight for their rights. Even from eighteen
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Theodore Gericault turned a tragic event‚ into a visual display of government incompetence. In 1816‚ the French government exercised poor judgment‚ by authorizing the unstable Medusa to set sail. The vessel crashed; leaving survivors to turn to cannibalistic means of survival. Gericault captured the tragedy‚ titled “The Raft of the ‘Medusa’” in Romantic style‚ along with compositional structure. The lifelike figures in the painting show detailed anguish and grief; which‚ invokes despair in those
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Franklin D. Roosevelt took specific actions to strengthen America to help pull herself out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt promised voters a New Deal that would make the Government assist the population. In the first one hundred days of him being in office‚ he faced four major challenged: reviving the industrial economy‚ relieving human suffering‚ helping the farmers‚ and reforming aspects of the capitalist system that assisted in the cause of the Great Depression. Soon the President and Congress
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myriad of presidents that have made an impact on the country. The most important is Theodore Roosevelt. As a boy‚ Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family‚ however he had frail health. By no means did that mean that he was less of an intellectual. In fact‚ his intellectualism led to his great achievements we know today. These great achievements were‚ the square deal‚ his foreign policy and the FDA. In Theodore Roosevelt’s first term of presidency‚ he created the “square deal” it expressed his
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Theodore Brown has seen the light. There is no other way to describe his conversion to the kind of metaphorical thinking he describes in Making Truth: Metaphor in Science. Joining his new sect‚ however‚ requires philosophical commitments that many readers may be unwilling to make. Few scientists will be surprised by Brown’s thesis that metaphors are rampant in science. Astrophysicists have described the distribution of mass in the universe as foamlike; chemists still ascribe orbitals to atoms
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President Roosevelt introduced the largest change in American foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine. Roosevelt acted as an arbiter at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. He added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and took an active role in foreign policy. He initiated the construction of the Panama Canal and the around the world cruise of the Great White Fleet. Using the ideology of "speak softly and carry a big stick‚" he changed the United States foreign policy. Theodore Roosevelt
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executive leadership of Progressivism‚ but with none of the moralizing that often accompanied progressive reform. With the New Deal‚ the modern liberal state was born. OVERVIEW This chapter opens with federal investigator Lorena Hickok traveling across America in search of the New Deals impact on the lives of ordinary people. The deprivation‚ anguish‚ and courage she finds upsets the common stereotype of lazy loafers in search of government handouts. She also discovers that the New Deal is restoring hope
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William McKinley‚ in his first inaugural address on March 4‚ 1897‚ explicitly stated that according to the principle foundation of the U.S. government‚ it is his duty to keep peaceful relations with foreign countries. Directly adopting George Washington’s advice in his farewell address of 1792‚ McKinley states‚ “ It will be our aim to pursue a firm and dignified foreign policy‚ which shall be just‚ impartial‚ ever watchful of our national honor..”.1 Essentially‚ McKinley entered office with the belief that it is only best to have a
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America in 1950’s 1950’s was a period of economic‚ cultural‚ and technological growth. After the World War the nation found itself in the state of cold war with its rival Communist Soviet Union. Anti-communism became the unifying sentiment of the American people. Conservatives and materialism characterized this decade from 1950 to 1960. The manufacturing world was booming‚ and hence the people had before non-existed level of various choices on the market. This led to the booming in spending and
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