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An Unlikely Titan of Commerce: J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder’s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. David Kruger’s presentation will bring to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department store chain and explore how the company, and their famous founder shaped rural America throughout the twentieth century, and provides a new perspective on this American cultural institution, and its founder’s unique brand of American capitalism.
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An Unlikely Titan of Industry & Commerce: Henry Ford
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How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic tale. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He promoted the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationshi...
An Unlikely Titan of Industry & Commerce: Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) only had three months of formal education, a curious and hardworking young man beat the odds and became one of the greatest inventors in history. Not only did he invent the phonograph and the first successful electric light bulb, but he also established the first electrical power distribution company and laid the technological groundwork for today’s movies, tele...
An Unlikely Titan of Industry & Commerce: George Westinghouse
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George Westinghouse (1846-1914) was an American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his pioneering contributions to the development of the electrical industry. He was a key figure in the late 19th century "War of Currents," a competition between Thomas Edison's direct current (DC) electrical system and Westinghouse's alternating current (AC) system. Westinghouse, with his engineers, ...
Carrère and Hastings: Perhaps If Not for Henry Flagler
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In 1902 the New York Herald proclaimed Whitehall as, “more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the World.” Flagler built the home as a wedding present for Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. Carrère and Hastings, who designed Flagler’s Hotel Ponce de Leon, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to design many Gilded Age lan...
Daniel Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement
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Daniel Hudson Burnham FAIA (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."
Charles Follen McKim: Creating an Architecture for America
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Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 - September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead & White.
Julia Morgan: The Most Accomplished Female Architect of Her Time
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Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 - February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Memory and Imagination: Stanford White in Detail
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Stanford White (November 9, 1853 - June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts architectural companies. He designed many houses for the rich, in addition to numerous civic, institutional, and religious buildings. His temporary Washington Square Arch was so popular that he was commissioned t...
The Architecture of Horace Trumbauer: "The Standard, Metropolitan and Authoritative Thing"
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Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 - September 18, 1938) was in many ways the most enigmatic architect of America’s “Gilded Age.” Although he left school when he was 14, by the time he was thirty he had built palatial homes for some of the nation’s wealthiest families, and his office would produce more than 800 designs over the next forty years.
The Influence of the École des Beaux-Arts in America
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École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Flagler's Vision is Finally Becoming a Reality
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On January the 28th at The Square, a discussion between Flagler Museum Director, John M. Blades, and Harvey Oyer, attorney and historian, about the founding of West Palm Beach, the history of the city, and the recent growth of the downtown. Video provided by: Dijoun Films
Mount Rushmore by David Wolff
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Memorialized for eternity, the faces of the four Presidents, who collectively represent the major aspects of the American Character, were literally carved from the side of a mountain, making Mount Rushmore the most enduring and impressive monument to the American Character. David Wolff is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Black Hills, South Dakota, and Western History specialist a...
The Lincoln Memorial
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The Lincoln Memorial
Roosevelt Memorial Hall | American Museum of Natural History
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Roosevelt Memorial Hall | American Museum of Natural History
The Washington Monument, the Capitol Dome, and the Jefferson Memorial
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The Washington Monument, the Capitol Dome, and the Jefferson Memorial
The Impetus Behind the Building of America’s Monuments
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The Impetus Behind the Building of America’s Monuments
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
Christmas Ornaments of the Gilded Age
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Christmas Ornaments of the Gilded Age
Carrère and Hastings: The Masterworks
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Carrère and Hastings: The Masterworks
Legendary Gilded Age Architects: Carrère and Hastings
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Legendary Gilded Age Architects: Carrère and Hastings
Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver
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Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver
Illusions, Innovations, and Magical Sensations | Gilded Age Magicians
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Illusions, Innovations, and Magical Sensations | Gilded Age Magicians
The Kid of Coney Island: The Rise of American Amusement Parks
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The Kid of Coney Island: The Rise of American Amusement Parks
Joseph Urban: Remaking the American Stage and Revitalizing American Architecture
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Joseph Urban: Remaking the American Stage and Revitalizing American Architecture
Architect Addison Mizner and His Mediterranean Revival Style
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Architect Addison Mizner and His Mediterranean Revival Style
Circles in the Sky - 2012 Whitehall Lecture Series
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Circles in the Sky - 2012 Whitehall Lecture Series
American Lightning
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American Lightning
Nickelodeon City: The Origins of the Movie Industry
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Nickelodeon City: The Origins of the Movie Industry
Unsinkable: RMS Titanic
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Unsinkable: RMS Titanic

Komentáře

  • @Eye_Exist
    @Eye_Exist Před 7 dny

    sure they give us hour long lectures of these fantasy architects knocking out palaces that we couldn't even dream of building today with all our technology and education, but look what happens when you ask how were they able to build them and where's all the blueprints and construction plans and pictures and videos and worker documentation that explain the flawless 3D detail of these buildings and how they were able to build them many times faster we build our glass and steel buildings today yes it looks very much just like they have simply attributed all this flawless stone architecture to some random people who didn't actually have anything to do with the drawing or construction of the buildings just to explain them away to cover where did this architecture actually originate from and when, in hope we never stopped to look at them to realize how none of this makes the slightest sense.

  • @CM-bi6oy
    @CM-bi6oy Před 19 dny

    So republicans got rid of the 22 joint rule that would have allowed democrats to throw out the disputed ballots. McConnell would be proud! They were scoundrels then and they still are today.

  • @timmartin7664
    @timmartin7664 Před měsícem

    Audio was awful had to use the closed caption to understand a word he said

  • @rexsolomon6325
    @rexsolomon6325 Před měsícem

    Sadly the United States has weakened inventor's protections for their patents, thereby stifling innovation. Thank you for this presentation and for your efforts to laud George Westinghouse Jr.'s life and work. But, were it not for George Senior's SEVEN patents, and the wealth it created for his family, Westinghouse Jr. would likely not been able to start his businesses the way he did. The World also OWES George Westinghouse SENIOR a tremendous debt of gratitude. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR POSTING THIS LECTURE!

  • @GuillaumeDArtagnan
    @GuillaumeDArtagnan Před měsícem

    Total nonsense, designed to put you to sleep. Here's the real deal on those spectacular buildings that we could not possibly reproduce today with modern tools. czcams.com/video/UvlkXf8mMPo/video.html

  • @yarazooom
    @yarazooom Před 3 měsíci

    why McKinley? he was president during the Spanish-american war where America became an Empire. we claimed Puerto Rico Hawaii Philippines & Guam. in addition Cuba was set to be handed over too but those plans fell thru. he was commander in chief using telegraph to communicate directly with generals.

  • @MYKroe
    @MYKroe Před 3 měsíci

    I find the story of Evelyn Nesbit fascinating and tragic. She was used by her mother and sexaully abused by these men of "prominence." What I also find sad is that she is potrayed as being a naive girl of little intellect. If you read her books, or books about her like American Eve, she was very literate and bright. Her portrayal in both the Ragtime movie and play is shameful.

  • @dkennell998
    @dkennell998 Před 4 měsíci

    Jane Jacobs' take on the City Beautiful movement is that it contributed to the hollowing out of inner cities, demolished dense, human-scale, mixed-use, responsive neighborhoods in favor of stuff that looks nice driving through it but is no good for living in, and that it gave us our current innovation-stifling zoning laws and municipality-bankrupting suburbs. Pretty convincing, I have to be honest.

    • @presumedeagle10
      @presumedeagle10 Před měsícem

      That was more modernism and urban renewal, sure the city beautiful moment did lead to the demolition of “blighted” areas in the same way as urban renewal but it was focused on public space and community centers as opposed to the car dominated freeways of modernism. Like I wouldn’t exactly call the national mall “hollow and empty” most of DC was built around the city beautiful moment actually and is extremely walkable and mixed use

  • @user-kh2pp4vj7b
    @user-kh2pp4vj7b Před 4 měsíci

    I duplicate my nick name EVE as evelyn sariga america

  • @chadk2525
    @chadk2525 Před 4 měsíci

    Shady shit.

  • @ciai7317
    @ciai7317 Před 4 měsíci

    Could someone please clarify what she said about the location and the trainer of the architects responsible for designing the city between the time frame of 24:28 and 25 in the video?

    • @FlaglerMuseum
      @FlaglerMuseum Před 4 měsíci

      The speaker is stating that the architects were trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, school of architecture in Paris, France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_des_Beaux-Arts and: beauxartsparis.fr/fr

    • @ciai7317
      @ciai7317 Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

  • @skate103
    @skate103 Před 5 měsíci

    Cant hear, too bad...

  • @markvenaglia1548
    @markvenaglia1548 Před 6 měsíci

    Your "City Beautiful" video needs to be required viewing for all 2024 presidential candidates.

  • @jeffreyrichardson
    @jeffreyrichardson Před 6 měsíci

    idiotic games jody welchs childrens shames bumpers bowling lanes

  • @matthewbolduc2714
    @matthewbolduc2714 Před 6 měsíci

    As you can see by this politicians need to be watched closely. They will go to great length to cheat and lie. Parallelisms to Trumpist efforts and activities are clear. Some actors might have been familiar with the events of the election of 1876. The election of 1876 should be studied closely at this time. Voters may have been clearly disenfranchised during the election process of 1876. Ultimately a congressional committee selected the president. Additional highly political factors are present in the chain of causality that resulted in the determination of the disputed electoral votes. Great efforts had been made to declare a winner based upon the decree of U.S. Grant, etc. Grant declined to declare Hayes the winner and he may have continued in his belief that Tilden won. Beware of politicians.

  • @The1ByTheSea
    @The1ByTheSea Před 6 měsíci

    26:23 is not El Mirasol .It is another Addison. Mizner's masterpiece : Playa Riente; and it is the front of Playa Riente

  • @The1ByTheSea
    @The1ByTheSea Před 6 měsíci

    the first French chateau :The Biltmore Estate the Vanderbilt in Ashville,North Carolina. The second Neoclasical : WhiteMarsh Hall and Lynewood Hall .

  • @The1ByTheSea
    @The1ByTheSea Před 6 měsíci

    Addison Mizner was the father of Mediterranean Revival in Palm Beach.Other prominent architects of the time and later were : Marion Sims Wyeth, John Volk ,and later on Maurice Fatio

    • @The1ByTheSea
      @The1ByTheSea Před 6 měsíci

      In 1926, John Volk set up his architectural firm, partnering with Gustav Maass until 1935. Volk became one of the architects (along with Mizner, Fatio and Howard and Wyeth) contributing to the Palm Beach area's signature style. Volk's early projects were designed in the Mediterranean Revival style, but he was more reserved in his use of ornamentation. Volk went on to design projects in the West Indian British Colonial style and the Bermudan style and he became known for his Georgian Revival designs.

  • @stephendavis6066
    @stephendavis6066 Před 7 měsíci

    Tilden got robbed?...clearly it was very close and throughout the south massive voter supression of the black male citizens of the US would have grealy boosted and clearified the Hayes was the winner. However to prevent the fractious and destructive debate the compromise was made to end federal protections fir the rights of freed men to exercise their constitutional rights. Hayes should have won and no compromise should have been necessary. The country however and moreover the entire freed black american community had to endure white supremeicity terrorism until the civil rights struggles of the 1960s dialed things back..and a peoples right to vote had to be enshrined in law.

  • @jdunderwood2010
    @jdunderwood2010 Před 7 měsíci

    Give me a break. Grant was one of the greatest presidents ever. This disinformation is part of the elitist narrative. What a joke.

  • @donofon1014
    @donofon1014 Před 8 měsíci

    Possibly a good description of Lindsey Graham at 12:45

  • @keleniengaluafe2600
    @keleniengaluafe2600 Před 8 měsíci

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @andrewscott9610
    @andrewscott9610 Před 8 měsíci

    The Fraud of the century is crooked Joe Biden election!!

  • @Humannbeing
    @Humannbeing Před 8 měsíci

    America left Europe and created a culture antithetical to it, it then cannot take its architecture.

  • @manatee2500
    @manatee2500 Před 8 měsíci

    A Wonderful lecture.

  • @GeorgiaAlbert
    @GeorgiaAlbert Před 8 měsíci

    In the early 1980s I was attending UNLV. I chose Julia Morgan as a subject for a class assignment. As it turned out there were no books, or articles, about Julia's early education, or her career, to be found. I did learn the photos of her and William R. Hearst were captioned "Wiliam Randolf Hearst and his sexr

  • @2012photograph
    @2012photograph Před 8 měsíci

    My Uncles were Managers of Fairmont Hotell in San Francisco.

  • @janebeman6259
    @janebeman6259 Před 8 měsíci

    The sound system was not working well. I'm going to see if the closed captioning works.

  • @kellicoffman8440
    @kellicoffman8440 Před 9 měsíci

    Sounds a lot like our recent elections often we feel they have been stolen on either side

  • @nancystevens7447
    @nancystevens7447 Před 10 měsíci

    Ms. Nesbit was a victim of sexual exploitation and was sex trafficked. She was destroyed by the men and women around her and ended up as a drug addict as well as being an alcoholic! Tragic beauty is what I see…….

  • @user-zy8cy6hn6o
    @user-zy8cy6hn6o Před 10 měsíci

    I wish he had included my favorite Tilden quote "I can retire to private life with the consciousness that I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office."

  • @jonmarco74
    @jonmarco74 Před 11 měsíci

    Isn’t it now illegal to question elections? Shame on you.

  • @wixom01
    @wixom01 Před 11 měsíci

    This was someone's house at one time. Good Lord!

  • @jimmiller1686
    @jimmiller1686 Před 11 měsíci

    Wonderful presentation. I wish I had the chance to meet him before his death.

  • @shannonburninhell8906
    @shannonburninhell8906 Před 11 měsíci

    Hays sucks

  • @user-te5vp6qv5h
    @user-te5vp6qv5h Před 11 měsíci

    Guiteau was an Oswald-type chronic failure and narcissist, and acted alone, just like Lee Harvey. Please stop the conspiracy nonsense!

  • @jimmiller1686
    @jimmiller1686 Před 11 měsíci

    the audio is awful

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 Před 11 měsíci

    Fraud if that century, maybe. We have a new fraud for this one.

  • @canon6356
    @canon6356 Před 11 měsíci

    Your speaker at best a bigot, at worst a southern sympathizing racist . Grant was a great president- Johnson was horrible. Grant was so good many wanted a 3rd term.

  • @FlaglerMuseum
    @FlaglerMuseum Před 11 měsíci

    The Whitehall Lecture Series returns on February 4, 2024 titled "The Unlikely Titans of Industry and Commerce". The Series will include lectures on: Frank Winfield Woolworth by biographer George W. Nelson, Thomas Alva Edison by biographer Dr. Paul Israel, James Cash Penney by biographer David Delbert Kruger, John Wanamaker by biographer Dr. Nicole C. Kirk, George Westinghouse by biographer William R. Huber, and Henry Ford by biographer Dr. Steven Watts. The Series is streamed live to Vimeo. If you are interested in attending either online or in-person at the Flagler Museum, you can sign up to our mailing list at tinyurl.com/FlaglerMuseum or visit FlaglerMuseum.us for more information.

  • @norm2322
    @norm2322 Před 11 měsíci

    Interesting subject, one I'll pursue through the various books available on the subject. Unfortunately, the speaker made a compelling story boring and difficult to listen to. Out of frustration, I gave up after 25 minutes in.

  • @ChrisNoonetheFirst
    @ChrisNoonetheFirst Před 11 měsíci

    The Union should have dissolved the Rebel states, not let them back in scot-free

  • @user-yx9bs8zo5q
    @user-yx9bs8zo5q Před 11 měsíci

    Topped by the fraud of Brandon

  • @patmischel6883
    @patmischel6883 Před 11 měsíci

    They should taken out Haues.

  • @billtruthseekertaylor4576
    @billtruthseekertaylor4576 Před 11 měsíci

    Obviously this book and this presentation was done years before the election of 2020. I would love to see some point by point comparison of the 1876 election and the 2020 election. I think the certification of electors by the respective state governors was key in each. I think Congress and the Supreme Court wanted be neutral as much as possible. It also seems to me to demonstrate that ‘paper ballots’ and ‘Election Day voting only’ are NOT ‘magic bullets’ to ensure election integrity.

    • @ChrisNoonetheFirst
      @ChrisNoonetheFirst Před 11 měsíci

      One thing is certain: Hayes didn't call the Secretary of State of Georgia up on the phone and threaten to throw him in prison if he didn't "find 11,780 votes (which is one more than we have)".

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 Před 11 měsíci

    thank you, Prof Smith, for putting Grant back where he belongs as one the best of chief executives of the US. Grant is the leader who should have succeeded Lincoln. the almost 4 years of Andrew Johnson, who until recently was considered the worst of that crowd, allowed the southern aristocrats to retrench and impose their hegemony once more in the rebellious states of the south. the hole thus created, the country is *still* trying to crawl out of.

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 Před rokem

    I’ve enjoyed other presentations, but I can’t handle the sound quality on n this one. Sorry.

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 Před rokem

    Oddly, one piece of continuity between the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Robert Todd Lincoln was in D.C. when his father was shot and rushed to his deathbed to be with him. He was Secretary of War under James Garfield, and witnessed him being shot. And, he was in Buffalo, NY, and nearby when McKinley was shot. He was outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition where the President was shot.

  • @hunniebe6
    @hunniebe6 Před rokem

    Fraud of the 21st Century; The Election of President Biden.

  • @mariefaisal98
    @mariefaisal98 Před rokem

    "THIS IS US" "CAN YOU SEE US "