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April is National Poetry Month! National Poetry Month is a special occasion to celebrate the expressiveness, delight, and pure charm of poetry. Throughout April we remind ourselves that poets have an essential role in our culture and that poetry matters. Funerary art helps one learn more about a life that was cherished and contemplate one’s own existence. …
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What makes a cemetery a great cemetery? Host of PBS’s “World’s Greatest Cemeteries” Roberto Mighty uncovers this question in a magazine-style half-hour that uses historians, forensic scientists, and horticulturists to share true stories of the world’s most spectacular cemeteries. In addition to interviews with historians, authors, tour guides, and other experts, the series includes reenactments exemplifying …
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All April long, National Jazz Month celebrates the heritage and history of the all-American art form. Soulful and rich, jazz is a veritable language. Just like any language, jazz has structure and expresses ideas and emotions. Language is what we use to communicate thoughts and feelings. Music is a universal language and jazz is spoken with all …
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A National Historic Landmark is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior for its outstanding historical significance. As such, these historic properties illustrate the great heritage of the U.S. There are over 2,600 of these historically important cultural sites in the country. Designedly, National …
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Schools alone can’t teach children resilience-the ability to adapt well in the face of adversity. Scouting is designed to foster learning, team building, and personal responsibility for American youth. Established in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations in the nation. An educational program for youth …
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Genealogy is the tracing of the lines of your ancestors and their descendants. It is the story of family origins and history. The study of the history of families, especially through historical documents, allows genealogists to uncover relationships between particular people and families. Learning the history of your ancestors helps you connect more deeply with a …
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America has never known a royal family, but the Vanderbilts came closer to it than any family ever has. Told by CNN news anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper, and novelist Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty is the tale of the frittering away of the greatest American fortune. Cooper and Howe share the …
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In his Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West, John Taliaferro tells the story of one of America’s first conservationists George Bird Grinnell. The son of a New York merchant, Grinell saw a new vision for a nation in the tumult of the Industrial Age. This biography details Grinell’s prolific life …
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In his Satan’s Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York’s Trial of the Century, writer and historian Mike Dash brings to life the personalities of one of the city’s most debauched, vice-ridden areas during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Extremely well-researched, Satan’s Circus gives the wide-angle lens of a square mile of Manhattan between 24th & 40th Streets, …
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In his Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York, biographer, historian, and former Wall Street attorney John Oller writes of the New York Police Department from its earliest days to the second decade of the 20th century. Well-executed and researched, Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of crime and …
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