• Se​quo​yah​

    Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn

    June 23, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23cherokee.html By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD (Quote from William Welge included) The illiterate Cherokee known as Sequoyah watched in awe as white settlers made marks on paper, convinced that these “talking leaves” were the source of white power and success. This inspired the consuming ambition of his life: to create a Cherokee written language.

  • Famous Composers

    Leningrad Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Issue #1444 (6) Friday, January 30, 2009 Culture Siege memories By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times http://oqulhgto.livejournal.com/524.html source of picture People light candles in St. Petersburg this week to mark 65 years since the end of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. If a member of Leningrad’s Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra didn’t show up at a rehearsal during the first months of 1942, fellow musicians would begin to feel a familiar nauseousness. They knew that nobody would pick up the phone when they rang the absentee — and that a rescue brigade sent to their home would find the musician dead. With winter…

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    Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    Digitized Collections Document African American Art and Artists of the Twentieth Century In honor of Black History Month, the Archives of American Art is highlighting our rich collection of papers documenting African American art in the twentieth century, particularly the papers of artists who began their careers during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. 

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    Colonial Life

    You are here: History >> Colonial Life In America Colonial Life In America – The Colonials Colonial life in America was very difficult for the hopeful settlers who came to escape poverty, persecution, and to gain religious freedom. Later came the adventurous explorers and those sent by European Nations to begin business ventures in this uncharted new land. They eventually settled into the original 13 colonies now known at the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Georgia. Colonial Life In America – The Hardships The settlers did not know how to live in the rugged…

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    Panama Canal

    With Panama gaining it’s independence in the fall of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt appoints a seven man commission to complete the construction of the canal on February 29th, 1904.

  • Five Civilized Tribes

    Henry L. Dawes

    by William Welge, Oklahoma Historian & Author When the name Henry L. Dawes comes up few know much about him except for the hundreds of thousands of American Indians whose lives were forever changed by this man. Born in Cummington, Massachusetts October 30, 1816, Dawes was well educated. He  practiced law and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. After serving as U.S. Attorney for a period of time, Dawes was elected to Congress in 1857 and continued to serve in Congress until 1875 at which time he was elected to the United States Senate. In 1887, Senator Dawes authored the landmark (pun intended) legislation of allotment to Indians…