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The President James K. Polk State Historic Site
Приєднався 27 бер 2020
Videos from volunteers and staff of the President James K. Polk State Historic Site located in Pineville, NC.
Catawba 101 Lecture
A presentation of Catawba history by Kathleen Hays, Cultural Public Programs Coordinator at the Catawba Cultural Center. This talk was given during a Catawba Cultural Day at he President James K. Polk State Historic Site on April 29, 2024.
Special thanks to Kathleen and all of the staff and volunteers from the Catawba Cultural Center who made the event such a success!
To learn more about the Catawba Cultural Center visit: catawbaculture.org/
Special thanks to Kathleen and all of the staff and volunteers from the Catawba Cultural Center who made the event such a success!
To learn more about the Catawba Cultural Center visit: catawbaculture.org/
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Death & Dying - October 2023
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Join the President James K. Polk State Historic Site for our Death and Dying Tours Saturdays, October 7, 21, 28 and November 4 at 3pm. We will explore the place of death in everyday life for families like the Polks, common diseases and associated herbal remedies, as well as burial rites and rituals for Scots-Irish settlers and enslaved African-Americans. Additionally, the tour will delve into t...
Death & Dying Tour- April 2023
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Join us for our Death and Dying tours as we explore the place of death in everyday life for families like the Polks, common diseases and associated herbal remedies, as well as burial rites and rituals for Scots-Irish settlers and enslaved African-Americans. Additionally, the tour will delve into the history of the Polk Site Cemetery. Tours will take place the next two Saturdays, April 15 & 22, ...
The Road to Emancipation: Juneteenth Webinar
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Leesa Jones, Director and Co-founder of the Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum in Washington, NC, discusses the history of freedom seeking in North Carolina and how enslaved people from the Charlotte area would have used codes and messages to safely navigate to freedom. See their Facebook page here: WashingtonNCfreedomroads There were some issues with connectivity du...
First Lady - Sarah Childress Polk
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This month's virtual lecture is brought to us by Thomas Cole, librarian at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Sarah Childress Polk devoted her considerable intelligence and political understanding to advancing the Southern planter’s agenda: small government, low tariffs, and states’ rights. She and husband James K. Polk saw eye-to-eye on political matters and functioned as a nineteenth-century ...
Sorting Out Charlotte: Tom Hanchett
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Dr. Tom Hanchett, retired staff historian for Levine Museum of the New South, visits to talk about the new edition of his UNC Press history of Charlotte, entitled Sorting Out the New South City. It traces how Charlotte became a big city - and delves deeply into the surprising story of how we became segregated, both by race and class. It’s powerful history that can help us understand issues that...
Singing to be Heard - Ella May Wiggins
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This program was recorded on March 13, 2021 as a part of our virtual lecture series. Jason E. Luker, Director of the Gaston County Museum of Art and History, teaches us about Ella May Wiggins, her difficult life, role in the 1929 Loray Mill textile strike, and how her words and deeds still challenge us today.
Enslaved and Entrenched: Elias Polk
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This lecture was recorded on February 20th and was the first in our series of virtual lectures. Zacharie Kinslow’s research focuses on the life and career of Elias Polk. Once enslaved by President James K. Polk, Elias rose from the confines of bondage to become a leading black conservative in the American southeast. Supporting southern Democrats, who had earlier enslaved him and his people, Eli...
Presidential Inaugurations
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Join our site manager, Scott Warren, for another short history lesson related to President Polk! This time, Scott is helping us understand how inaugurations work.
Hidden Histories: The Polks and Slavery in Early Nineteenth Century North Carolina
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This presentation was created by our Fall 2020 Digital Research Intern, Kristen Gooding. In it she highlights some of James K. Polk's early life on a farm in Mecklenburg County where at least five people were held in bondage. Though we do not know many specifics about what the enslaved people's lives were like here on the Polk's farm, Kristen helps us understand what slavery in the region was l...
Mini "Vote's For Women" Women's Suffrage Sash
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Mini "Vote's For Women" Women's Suffrage Sash
Founding of the United States Naval Academy
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Founding of the United States Naval Academy
Artifact Highlight - Restored Tombstone
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Artifact Highlight - Restored Tombstone
#MakerMonday - Make Your Own Seed Packets for Seed Saving!
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#MakerMonday - Make Your Own Seed Packets for Seed Saving!
Artifact Highlight - Mysterious Mexican Battle Flag
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Artifact Highlight - Mysterious Mexican Battle Flag
Maker Monday - DIY PomPoms and Reading Tracker Bookmark
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Maker Monday - DIY PomPoms and Reading Tracker Bookmark
#MakerMonday Kid-friendly Kente Inspired Paper Weaving
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#MakerMonday Kid-friendly Kente Inspired Paper Weaving
#MakerMonday Spinning on the Treadle Wheel
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#MakerMonday Spinning on the Treadle Wheel
#MakerMonday - Spinning on the Great Wheel
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#MakerMonday - Spinning on the Great Wheel
Your recent videOs are good. With Some strateGic editing, They have the pOtential to attRact a widEr audience And generaTe morE enDagemenT.
Looks a lot like the one in my living room. One of my wife’s great aunts got it as a wedding present right after the war against the states.
This is what is in my attic. Looks almost the same. I would love to learn how to use it
I thought it was good. well done! who ordered genocide? who kills also dies.
Ella May is the best!!!
Umm its hard not to see the Great California Bear Reaching (or better yet Pointing) at the Lone Star being the constellation of Ursa Major The Great Bear 🐻 or the Big Dipper that points directly to Polaris the North Star!!
POLK 49-53
Pretty cool video but I thought they got the star from Alvarado’s flag not Texas
They took all the Land Of Mr. Mariano Vallejo, arrested humiliated him in front of his family, a noble respected man that people loved, and took also the land of the rest of the Mexicans in what you call California.
Man, this is my favorite historic site.
He bullied a weak neighboring country and provoked a a war of aggression with the intention of stealing territory. During the same time period he cowardly avoided a conflict with the 19th Century superpower over territorial dispute in the NW. Despicable character!
Really good at getting things done though. Especially when it came to taking things from Mexico.
Since when was 1840s Empire of Mexico weak militarily. The Mexican Republic had a far bigger standing army than the USA at that time with post Napoleonic generals that considered themselves far superior to the country bumpkins and militias of the US. You seem to be suffering a reverse view of nations from a 20th century state of affairs, not an early 19th. As to the situation with British North America, the US got the border parallel she insisted was fair, and the UK, still not making any money off their Canada holdings, was not going to enter another border war for an unprofitable and expensive western Canada. The US completely conquered Mexico City itself, but didn't insist on annexing Mexico. Just required by treaty that Mexico SELL THE US the northern states they really had never utilized and respect the Santa Anna surrendered to Texas border of the Rio Grande. The US could have completed that treaty a year before it did if the government of Mexico did not change 20 times in one year through internal chaos and coups. Maintaining stable republics was elusive to many nations in the 19th century including thr US, but few topped Mexico in that respect for the whole century. The fault may not lie in your stars, but in yourselves.
U woke😂😂😂😂😂or u wanted to be like the UK?
No
I love you Sarah. For all eternity I love you.
Before he lived in Nashville he lived in Columbia Tn
I must apologize for giving the wrong year for the burning of Washington, DC during the War of 1812. It took place on August 24, 1814.
And James Polk became Speaker of the House in 1835.
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In the Southern Appalachians these wheels were used into the late 1930's. This was mostly due to the economic devastation caused by the War for Southern independence. The war set the South back 100 years.
The boarder may be good for great Britain but its horrible for North Americans
Please help
Mr. Cripps sent me
Does he know how to crip walk? If he doesn’t tell him to change his name
James Polk was the best President of USA in the 19th century after Abraham Lincoln.
0:54 “Ostensibly” 4 syllables
Great Info! Awesome talk!!!!
You have a spoke missing. You are spinning from a combed roving. most of the time colonial spinner would be spinning from a carded rolag.
Stable video👍
He wasn’t buried in a mass grave, it was a Cholera section for the Grundy family in city cemetery. (He did get his own plot.)
Thanks for clarifying, Ben!
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