in niagara falls and things like that. but niagara falls was a huge deal and a lot of people use it metaphorically including himself. there's an incident in 1858 that also happens at niagara falls, a metaphor, let's talk about this, maybe you could expand on what niagara falls meant in the american culture, what it meant. >> it was a great tourist attraction in women but the the way home from washington, been serving in congress and stopped over niagara falls and went to the great lakes in chicago, he lived in illinois. he stopped over niagara falls, he was stunned by the spectacle. part of my book is influenced by a school of thought called post- humanism, the effect that nature and things, nonhuman things have on people and today, even right now we are experiencing post- human existence because we are speaking the way we do because of a thing, covid. there's something out there in california some people are dealing with a thing called fire. other times it's a hurricane or something, i used to live in california and there

vertical fall, and niagara is a horizontal fall. will compare the cubic feet of water that will be going over the rim at any given moment. again bringing us into parallel with the other wonders around the world. specifically in the americas. how do we know that these two features become the next avatars of american ambition? in 1825, henry as tan or creates the map that uses information, all this detailed information way down into mexico, but it's the car to. car two she is on maps are kind of -- most european maps the cartouche will be a cityscape, a landmark, a man-made landmark. it's a way of encapsulating but it is we want you to care about. so what did we do as the cartouche? we take natural bridge, and niagara falls and scooch the 800 miles together, so it looks like it's the niagara river that is running underneath natural bridge, so our two major natural monuments are functioning as one element in the american landscape. i find that very telling. i think the idea that we would deliberately do that, knowing that as a cartogra

when he writes about the bogota river, he references niagara so you understand that niagara is a verticalll, but he calculates the rim, again, bringing us the parallel of the other wonders around the world, specifically in the americas. how do we know that these two features become the next avatars of american ambition? in 1825, henry s. tanner creates the map that uses humboldt's information, all of this detailed information way down into mexico, but it's the cartuche. cartuches on maps is kind of the christian's way of understanding what's on the map. it will be a cityscape, a landmark, usually a manmade landmark. il it's a way of encapsulating what we want you to care about. what do we do as the cartuche? we take the natural bridge and niagara falls and scooch the 800 miles together so it looks like it's the river running under the bridge, so our two major national monuments are functioning as one element in the american landscape. i find that very telling. i think the idea that we would deliberately do that, knowing as a cartographer does, that the niagara falls is up here and the riv

the employment is going to be good for everybody including for 53 niagara. the permit has been approved by building and planning departments. the argument is from the property, i hope you can review it and give it a chance. thank you very much. good night. >> clerk: thank you. mr. sanchez, anything further? >> nothing further to add. >> clerk: okay. mr. duffy, do you have anything further? >> no thank you, i'm good. >> clerk: okay. so commissioners, this matter is permitted. >> vice president honda: i guess i'll start. i feel the permits have been properly issued and also, reading through the brief, this home has had multiple issues for a long time. i think having a new ownership that has -- is going to the department and correcting the issues properly is probably the best thing both safety wise for the neighborhood and as well as the immediate neighbors. >> president lazarus: unless there are other comments are we ready for a motion? >> vice president honda: deny the appeal. >> clerk: we have a motion from vice president honda to deny the appeal and issue t

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told the british commander at fort niagara i could never believe that your seize tod pretend to americahat it his own to give. spain and britain, even though they are enemies of each other, spain and britain both continued to supply native nations with weapons, ands, ammunition. they applied the ohio valley confederacy, the shoney's -- supply anand they emerging native confederacy in the south made up of choctaw and some cherokee. hoped ton and britain keep native nations as a buffer between their claims, the british in canada, and the spanish to the west of the mississippi and mexico as a buffer against american expansion into those places. if the united states wanted to expand west, which they absolutely did, they would have to win it on the battlefield. it ended in the east with your account. the signing of the treaty of 1783.in it did continue after yorktown even in mainland north america. battles end by 1783 , were continued in the west for another 12 years. this war went badly at first for the new american nation. there were raids by native warriors on settlements that tried to cr

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the british continued to occupy forts, including niagara and detroit along the great lakes and they said the united states had to repay its war debts from before the war before britain would evacuate those posts. spain ended up planning a separate treaty with britain in which it received east florida as well as west were -- florida that it had won during the war. it declared part of the treaty signed between britain and the united states that gave places that spain claimed as part of its empire to the united states were invalid, and spain basically began to try to enforce its proposal, its version of the ways in which america should be divided up after the war. spain already supplied forts west of appalachia and because newn had controlled orleans, which had been part of louisiana, spain closed the mississippi to the united states. importantemendously to the united states, because if they are going to expand across appalachia, they will need to get those agricultural products to market, extremely expensive cart them back over the appalachians to ports on the east coast. the much more pro

from the sidewalks of new york to niagara's frontier, the empire state salutes the president.a and tennessee are proudly represented. ohio is another colorful spectacle. ♪ the florida float with its suntan beauties comes by. and finally, the parade comes to an end as dusk approaches and brings to a close and exciting day, an historic day, a day that will long be remembered. a great nation has chosen its leader. >> this is american history tv on c-span3, where each weekend, we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. >> tonight on reel america, apollo 14, a nasa film documenting the third successful mission to land on the moon. here is a preview. >> 200 feet per second. >> that looks good. >> w looks great -- the view looks great. looks like you're going right over. 170 feet out. 8%. you are barely crossing the north. you can land over here. >> dropping down. >> ok. looking great. >> 60-seconds. >> 40 feet. three feet per second. 30. three feet per second. 20 feet. looking great. 10. >> stop. auto. we are on the surface. >> ok, we made the landing. >> roger. >>

the british continue to occupy forts including niagara and detroit, along the great lakes. they had to repay their war depths before british would evacuate the posts. spain ended up signing a separate treaty with britain in which it received east florida, as well as was florida that's been at one during the war. the spanish declared that the parts of the treaty that was signed between britain and the united states that gave places that spain claimed as part of its empire to the united states were involved. and spain basically began to try to enforce its proposal, its version of the ways that north america should be divided up after the war. spain was already occupied for its west of the appalachians it seized during the war, and because spain had control of new orleans, but you have had as part of louisiana since the seven years'war, spain closed the mississippi to the united states. this is tremendously important to the united states. they are going to expand their farms, if they're going their farms want to expand against around the appalachians, they need to get those ag

from the sidewalks of new york to niagara's frontier, the empire state salutes the president.essee are proudly represented. ohio is another colorful spectacle. ♪ florida float with its suntan beauties comes by. and finally, the parade comes to an end as dusk approaches and brings to a close and exciting day, an historic day, a day that will long be remembered. a great nation has chosen its leader. >> you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series "reel america." saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 4 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. >> in an event hosted by spelman college president and by the prairie view a&m president discuss the history of african-americans in education and the important of historically black colleges and universities. here's a preview. >> but it really did take a long time for us as black scholars to insist on the relevancy of our own experiences. and so, to do so in the 1960's as scholars was really a revolutionary moment. it became a revolutionary movement to say that the canon had to be questioned. now, of co

. ♪ from the sidewalks of new york to niagara's frontier, the empire state salutes the president.essee are proudly represented. ohio is another colorful spectacle. ♪ the florida float with its suntan beauties comes by. and finally, the parade comes to an end as dusk approaches and brings to a close an exciting day, an historic day, a day that will long be remembered. a great nation has chosen its leader. ♪ >> you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series, reel america saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. earlier this week, joseph biden was sworn in as the nation's 46th president on january 20. to celebrate inauguration day, american history tv looks back at past inaugurations and farewell addresses. here is a preview. >> the economic deals that we have suffered have come upon us upon it several decades. it would not go away and days, weeks, or months. but they will go away. they will go away because we as americans have the capacity now as we have had in the past to do whatever needs to be done

california and specifically yosemite are starting to be perceived as niagara and natural bridge are as a landscape untainted by slavery, a landscape construed as having no north and no south. it's the west. it's a new eden, a chance to start over again in a post-manslaughtpost post-emancipation america. so in the fremonts' home in new york, there are paintings by beerstadt in california, there are books by humboldt, and there are these three abolitionist sculptures. there are john rogers' terra cottas of a friend in the swamp, an escaped slave man helping a wounded soldier to safety at risk of his own safety and the slave auction, the most incendiary things that john rogers did, watching a family being separated at an auction that also includes horses and cattle. it is these things that become political statements in new york and within the abolitionist community. they also own a casting of the freedman by john quincy adams ward, which i find the singlemost uplifting and riveting sculpture on the subject of abolition that's done in the united states. the interesting thing about the fre

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you have indian cultures, grizzly bears, niagara falls. you have a buffalo hunt in the middle distance. it is an encapsulation of what america means to max based on this trip. it is the cliff's notes version of what you are going to get in the narrative. but what is also really great is just as humboldt's generosity in lending us his map reset the way we construe geopolitics after the louisiana purchase, william clark will give max copies of his turn by turn route maps up the mississippi and missouri rivers as a gift. in order to help speed him on his way. what i love about this is it has got the same indicators, all of the little notes that lewis and clark made, the point of which captain lewis made celestial observations on the 26th of april with the latitude and longitude on the river. max will add his own notes to this, and there are vocabulary sheets in the back for some of the indigenous people that he met along the way. that act of friendship, that act of reciprocity, of let me make your journey easier because we are all going to le

in the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the niagara, i have watched white churchman stand onidelines and mount pious trivialities. in the midst of a mighty struggle to rig our nation of racial and economic injustice, i've heard many ministers say those are social issues, in which the gospel has no real concern. and i have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely otherworldly religion which makes a strange on biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular. i have traveled the length and breadth of alabama, mississippi and all of the other southern states, on sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings, i have looked at the south beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heaven word. i have beheld the impressive outlines of her massive religious education buildings. over and over, i found myself asking, what kind of people worship here? who is their god? where were their voices when the lips have governor barnett dripped with the words of into position and nullification. where were they when governor wallace gave a c

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harvey dropped more water on houston in five days than goes over niagara falls in a year.iles an hour. first hurricane we have ever measured that in. we spend $265 billion just to clean up after those storms, fareed, not to prevent them. so every economic analysis now shows it is more expensive to do nothing, not to respond to the climate crisis, than it is to respond to it. so you're going to be -- citizens will spend this money. they're either going to spend it cleaning up or building barriers or moving homes or whatever it is going to be. but there is a way to do this productively that actually moves our economies forward and allows the united states to push the curve of technology which we're really good at and begin to invent the new products of the future, create the new economy of the future, make the air cleaner, life healthier and the united states of america more secure. >> stay with us. when we come back, i will ask secretary kerry what he will do about the world's greatest polluter. that is not the united states. that is of course china. pain g. the first full

they have listened and served him in some cases for four years during a niagara of lies from him.s produce a riot and now they say he's gone too far. well, he actually went too far a long time ago. so the resignations today look to me like more of what we already have far too much of and that is gesture politics >> yeah. what about the impeachment efforts, how will these next 12 days affect, if i may, how president trump is remembered? >> oh, i think he's settle -- >> that's already in the can, right? >> he's going to be remembered i think the 25th amendment is a particularly bad idea at this point. it was not written as a redundant supplemental impeachment provision of the constitution, rather it was with in mind something like woodrow wilson's 1919 stroke it was written for when a president is incapacitated unfortunately, mr. trump is not at the moment incapacitated. so i think this would be a misuse of that with regard to impeachment, you could rush this through. it would -- in this case it would not be impeachment for past so much for past misdeeds as it would be a prophylacti

maria destroyed puerto rico, harvey dropped more water on houston then what goes over niagara falls over the year. irma had the first recorded wind of 180 miles per hour for 24 sustained hours. last year we had one storm, $55 billion. we are spending the money but we are not doing it smart or in a way that would actually sustain us for the long term. so, this is critical. the goal of the paris agreement was to hold the earth's temperature to two degrees centigrade. even if you did everything in paris we are going up 3.7 or four, that is catastrophic. what president biden is trying to do is listen to science, facts, and make tough decisions about what we need to do to take the world to a better place, particularly our own country, and that is what he is committed to doing. so, yes, there are a lot of of challenges and sadly, all of them were exacerbated by the last four years. now we have to make up for that, and that is a hard pull, but the president is capable of doing it and is putting together a great team to help him do that. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. thank you for joining us.

harvey dropped more water on houston in five days than goes over niagara falls in a year. irma had the first recorded winds of 185 miles an hour for 24 sustained hours. that last year, one storm, $55 billion. so we're spending the money, folks. we're just not doing it smart. we're not doing it in the way that would actually sustain us for the long term. so this is critical. we're -- the goal of the paris agreement was to hold the earth's temperature increase to 2 degrees centigrade. even if you did everything that was in paris, we're going 3.7 or 4. that's catastrophic. what president biden is trying to do is listen to science, listen to facts, and make tough decisions about what we need to do to take the world to a better place. particularly, our own country. and that is what will he is committed to doing. so, yes, there are a lot of challenges right now. sadly, all of them were exacerbated by the last 230ur y four years. now, we have to try to make up for that. and that is a hard pull but this president is capable of doing it. and he's putting together a great team that

harvey dropped more water in houston in five days then goes over niagara falls in a year. and irma have the first reporte winds of 185 miles an hour for 24 sustained hours. last year we had one storm, $55 million. so we're spending money folks. we're just not doing it smart, and were not doing it in a way that would actually sustain us for the long term. so this is critical. we are, the goal of the paris agreement was to hold the temperature degrees to 2 degree centigrade. even if you did everything that was in to paris we're going up to 3.7 or four, that is catastrophic. what president biden is trying to do is listen to science, listen to facts, and make tough decisions about what we need to do to take the world to a bette place, particularly our own country. that is what he is committed to doing great yes, there are a lo of challenges right now, but sadly all of them were exacerbated by the last four years. now we have to try to make up for that. that is a hard pull, but this president is capable of doing i and he's putting together a goo team to help him do that. >> tha

harvey, maria, going over niagara falls in a year and irma had the first recorded wins of 100 and 85iles per hour for 24 sustained hours. last year there was one story, 55 million dollars. we are spending the money, folks, we are just not doing it smart or in a way that would sustain us for the long term. so, this is critical. the goal of the paris agreement was to hold the temperature increase to two degrees centigrade's. even in paris we are going up to 3.7 or four. that's catastrophic. what president biden is trying to do is listen to science, listen to facts and make tough decisions about what we need to do to make the world a better place, particularly our own country and that's what he has committed to doing. yes, there are a lot of challenges right now and sadly all of them were exacerbated by the last four years. host: market, are you still there? how do you respond? caller: i think that's a crock of baloney. these high fluting politicians spouting this nonsense, like kerry, and let's go back to al gore, the environmentalist al gore was heating his swimming pools and streams