This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the selection of the commanding general needed to lead the new Continental Army. John Adams convinced the Second Continental Congress to elect George Washington as the commander-in-chief.
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Bread and Roses Heritage Committee chairman Jim Beauchesne describes the 1912 strike of textile workers in Lawrence, MA, called the Bread and Roses Strike. He examines the demographics of the workers, largely immigrants and women, and their roles in organizing the strike. His presentation includes slides.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the departure of a group of Puritan Separatists from England aboard the Mayflower to settle a colony in America. In Plymouth, MA, they signed the Mayflower Compact, promising that all decisions of the new colony would be made by the majority.
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The seminar will explore the lived experience of ordinary Americans during the colonial period of history. Topics will include family and household, community organization, making a living, religious belief and practice, witchcraft and magic, and shared patterns of human psychology. Material culture will also receive considerable emphasis: domestic architecture, furnishings, and the natural environment. Mornings will be devoted to lectures and discussion; afternoons to field trips and library work.
The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation is a state-wide organization dedicated to helping individuals, local historical societies, and organizations with historic preservation. The trust offers a wide variety of resources ranging from documents to traveling lectures on preservation. The trust also can aid individuals and organizations with the restoration of historic properties.
The site offers extensive information on preservation and restoration, including self-help articles, information on educational programs, and links to other resources. Other online resources include a preservation white pages with contact information for all preservation organizations within the state of Connecticut, a preservation glossary, and information on historic properties in Connecticut.
Programming is primarily intended for property owners and preservation professionals.
Scholar and author Nancy S. Seasholes follows the history of landmaking in Boston, looking at the history and means of creation of fill in the city.
Another version of this lecture is available in our database. The other (node identification number 2005) is slightly more recent.
Director of the Nichols House Museum Flavia Cigiliano discusses Progressive-era women on Boston's Beacon Hill and their social and political impact. Beginning in the late 19th century, modern women such as Beacon Hill resident Rose Nichols, ventured outside of the domestic realm and into the world of employment and politics.
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Karl Haglund, senior planner for the Metropolitan District Commission, and Renata von Tscharner, president of the Charles River Conservancy, cover the history of human management of the Charles River, beginning in colonial times and continuing to the present. They emphasize how the river has determined development and settlement patterns in the area. Their presentation includes slides.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary presents the textile industry in Lowell, MA, as representative of the transition of American girls from the farms to the factories.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Intolerable Acts, Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. More legislation to control the colonists only incited more rebellion.
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