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The Hidden Black Towns Built Right After Slavery | Raise Your Head Up | PBS
After the American Civil War, over four million formerly enslaved people were set free but most had nowhere to go. Wanting some autonomy over their own lives, many formed Freedom Colonies in an endeavor to live as far away from the racism of Jim Crow as possible. In 1988, documentary photographer Richard Orton began a decades-long project that followed the descendants of four of these communities. This documentary explores their accomplishments, along with the challenges they face to keep these legacies alive.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FbsMDfKoY
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After the American Civil War, over four million formerly enslaved people were set free but most had nowhere to go. Wanting some autonomy over their own lives, many formed Freedom Colonies in an endeavor to live as far away from the racism of Jim Crow as possible. In 1988, documentary photographer Richard Orton began a decades-long project that followed the descendants of four of these communities. This documentary explores their accomplishments, along with the challenges they face to keep these legacies alive.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FbsMDfKoY
#timeline #history #pbs
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This Secret Cave Could Change How We See Early Humans | NOVA | PBS
Step into the stunning cave that’s reshaping our understanding of prehistoric art.
Deep in the gorges of southern France lies the Chauvet Cave, an archaeological treasure hidden from the world for millennia. Sealed by a rockfall 20,000 years ago, and rediscovered in 1994, it protects some of the world's oldest and best-preserved Stone Age art, including vibrant depictions of lions, mammoths and rhinos. Join a team of scientists as they unlock the cave’s secret history, from giant bears that prowled through it to mysterious large fires that illuminated it. Watch as they uncover how these early humans created carefully planned compositions on the walls, upending our traditional understanding of art history and connecting us intimately to the dawn of human creativity.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RQwJ9tGDo
#timeline #history #pbs
Step into the stunning cave that’s reshaping our understanding of prehistoric art.
Deep in the gorges of southern France lies the Chauvet Cave, an archaeological treasure hidden from the world for millennia. Sealed by a rockfall 20,000 years ago, and rediscovered in 1994, it protects some of the world's oldest and best-preserved Stone Age art, including vibrant depictions of lions, mammoths and rhinos. Join a team of scientists as they unlock the cave’s secret history, from giant bears that prowled through it to mysterious large fires that illuminated it. Watch as they uncover how these early humans created carefully planned compositions on the walls, upending our traditional understanding of art history and connecting us intimately to the dawn of human creativity.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RQwJ9tGDo
#timeline #history #pbs
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Brooklyn Bridge | PBS
It's a symbol of strength and vitality. In the time of its creation, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. From conception to construction, it traces the bridge's transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American culture.
The “Great East River Bridge” was the largest bridge of its era, a technical accomplishment of unparalleled scope, marked by enormous construction problems, equally ingenious solutions and heroic human achievement. In unexpected and wonderful ways, the Brooklyn Bridge captured the imagination of all Americans and, in the process, became a symbol in American culture of strength, vitality, ingenuity and promise.
In his Academy Award® nominated film Brooklyn Bridge, Ken Burns captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age, the dramatic story of the larger-than-life men, who imagined and built it, and the immense charm this granite and steel structure has exerted on generations of city dwellers.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSW8uoPdmNw
#timeline #history #pbs
It's a symbol of strength and vitality. In the time of its creation, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. From conception to construction, it traces the bridge's transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American culture.
The “Great East River Bridge” was the largest bridge of its era, a technical accomplishment of unparalleled scope, marked by enormous construction problems, equally ingenious solutions and heroic human achievement. In unexpected and wonderful ways, the Brooklyn Bridge captured the imagination of all Americans and, in the process, became a symbol in American culture of strength, vitality, ingenuity and promise.
In his Academy Award® nominated film Brooklyn Bridge, Ken Burns captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age, the dramatic story of the larger-than-life men, who imagined and built it, and the immense charm this granite and steel structure has exerted on generations of city dwellers.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSW8uoPdmNw
#timeline #history #pbs
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