Painting The Corners: Art and Inspiration
This Electronic Field Trip looks at the representation of baseball in American popular culture and art.
This Electronic Field Trip looks at the representation of baseball in American popular culture and art.
The Lysander and Susan Flagg Museum is the first museum in Central Falls history. It celebrates local history with a large collection of maps, newspapers, photographs, paintings, and artifacts. It houses the invaluable Gilbert R. Merrill Textile collection, and several paintings by renowned artist Lorenzo DeNevers. The Flagg Museum also includes a room dedicated to local veterans.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Society's Museum, housed in the old City Hall, houses many historical artifacts as well as genealogical resources.
The museum offers exhibits and research library access.
The Society maintains a restored 1870s farm house as the Greece Museum, featuring exhibits of local history. Visitors can bridge the years by stepping into the new museum wing and wandering through the gallery of historical exhibits. They can take a look at the town's first fire wagon, imagine our ancestors harvesting ice from a lakeside pond, contemplate transportation before the automobile, or study the Native American encampment on Long Pond.
The society offers occasional recreational and educational events; the museum offers exhibits.
The Museum is housed in the 1892 "Palace of the Plains," designed by architects Willis Proudfoot and George Bird as Wichita's City Building. The museum collection has evolved form a core of early memorabilia to nearly 70,000 artifacts relating to Wichita and Sedgwick County from 1865 to the present. From photographs to fashions, business records to furniture, these items help tell the story of the people and events that have shaped the county's history.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.
The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame exhibits a collection of historic artifacts at the American Polish Cultural Center in Troy, Michigan. Many of the items are one-of-a-kind. Visitors can see the uniforms worn by such greats as Steve Gromek, Carol Blazejowski, and Ed Olczyk; the boxing gloves used by the 1940s world middleweight champion, Tony Zale; and basketballs, baseballs, footballs, and bowling balls used and signed by Mike Krzyzewski, Whitey Kurowski, Ted Marchibroda, and Ed Lubanski. Among other items is a football signed by NPASHOF inductee Bob Skoronski, Vince Lombardi and many other members of the 1967 Super Bowl I Champion Green Bay Packers.
The hall offers exhibits.
The Society seeks to, through its museum and other means, collect, preserve, and publish any material and knowledge about the history of Afton.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.
Professor Ralph A. Rossum examines the ways in which recent and current U.S. Supreme Court Justices interpret or seek to interpret their duties and the founding documents of the U.S. He looks at what precedents and interpretations of the Founders' intent are incorporated in contemporary justices' thought.
This lecture continues from Contemporary Supreme Court Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation, Part One.
Professor Danielle Allen discusses the concept of U.S. citizenship and the ideal behavior of a U.S. citizen as suggested by major documents in U.S. history, including the Federalist papers, the Declaration of Independence, and presidential inaugural addresses.
This lecture continues from the lecture What is Citizenship?: Part One.
Professor Danielle Allen discusses the concept of U.S. citizenship and the ideal behavior of a U.S. citizen as suggested by major documents in U.S. history, including the Federalist papers, the Declaration of Independence, and presidential inaugural addresses.
This lecture continues in What is Citizenship?: Part Two.