U.S. Frontier Roads ; Trails from 1820 - present
U.S. Frontier Roads & Trails from 1820 - present. Major trails and roads are traced using maps, slides, and narration.
Katharine Hepburn &Little Women Live Radio Performance 1945 Part 3
Katharine Hepburn, and others perform Little Women for Theatre Guild. It is an on the Air radio broadcast from December 23rd 1945.
Katharine Hepburn in Little Women Live Radio Performance Part 2
Katharine Hepburn and others perform Little Women for Theatre Guild.
It was an on the Air radio broadcast from December 23rd 1945.
Katharine Hepburn in Little Women Live Radio Performance Part 1
Katharine Hepburn and others perform Little Women for Theatre Guild.
It was an on the Air radio broadcast from December 23rd 1945.
Palestine 1930-1948 - 7 of 14
This video starts with a 1945 speech by David Ben-Gurion where he urges for Jewish immigration to Palestine. There is footage of the end of the war and the Jews that survived. The fight for independence would begin. There is reference to displacement camps organised by the American and British. Jews demanded to go to Palestine but Britain rejects this possibility. Nations had not opened the doors to these displaced Jews. There is reference to the political reasons why this happened.
Katharine Hepburn ;Little WomenLive Radio Performance Part 5
Katharine Hepburn and others perform Little Women for Theatre Guild. It was an on the Air radio broadcast from December 23rd 1945.
Boom Britain - Documenting the Nation's Life on Film
A landmark project that will transform our understanding of British documentary cinema post-1945 encompassing a season at BFI Southbank, a 4-disc DVD boxset, a new book, a Mediatheque collection and a touring programme of extraordinary films.
Find out more at http://www.bfi.org.uk/boombritain.html
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 16, German 59, UCLA
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 17, German 59, UCLA
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 18, German 59, UCLA [Finished]
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
D-Day to Berlin - The Battle for France (Part 4 of 6)
History Channel Video. 1944, Europe's future hung in the balance. Our 3-part series follows the story of Allied forces--from Normandy to the assault on Germany--and the victories that led to WWII's end in 1945. We begin on the day after D-Day, unfolding over the summer of 1944 as the initial narrow sliver of French coastline gained by the Allies is slowly extended. By the end of August, Allied victory seemed assured. Rommel had been wounded, Hitler was directing the battle, and the German army w
Indian Independence & British Decolonisation Reasons for the Labour Landslide of 1945 Chinese landscape Chinese landscape The Internationalization of Spanish Companies: Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational Bibliothèque du film (BIFI) Goethe-Institut : Deutschland Erlesen Primary sources on copyright in five jurisdictions 1450-1900 Cultures of knowledge : an intellectual geography of the seventeenth-century republic of letters
How important was Indian Independence (1947) in changing British attitudes to decolonisation during the period from 1945 to 1960? Dr. Chris Prior, University of Leeds: The significance of 1947; The...
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
Reasons for the Labour Landslide of 1945: Explanations given by Conservative Party in aftermath of election; Longer-term trends in society; Wartime politics; Composition of the electorate. Dr....
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
A view of a valley dotted with rice paddies and building. In the foreground a large compound can be seen between two forested hills. Part of a large river can be seen in the background in front of a mountain range.
View of a valley dotted with buildings. In the center is a large forested hill surrounded by rice paddies and tree lined roads. On top of the hill is a clearing with a series of monuments. In the background a large river can be seen in front of a rising mountain range.
Move over, Italy. Rafael del Pino is here to claim Spain’s rightful spot as a major European player in the global infrastructure market. Founded by del Pino’s father in 1952 as a builder of sleeper cars for trains, Ferrovial has diversified into a conglomerate with a hand in construction, real estate, road bui
This is the website of the Bibliotheque du Film (BIFI), based in Paris, which is the equivalent of the BFI Library in London. In 2005 it moved to a new site at rue de Bercy and contains the screening rooms of the Cinematheque Francaise and an exhibition space. The nearest metro is Bercy, southeast Paris.The BIFI contains books, periodicals, and a VHS/DVD collection. There is also a stills collection. The special collections section (Espace chercheurs) is only open in the afternoon, and booking n
Text and the City: a literary map of Germany is an English translation of the German website, Deutschland Erlesen. The English site is presented by the Goethe Institute in London. The site provides selections from recent and contemporary well-known writers, who hail from, or are associated with, fourteen German towns and cities: Berlin; Bremen; Dresden; Frankfurt am Main; Hamburg; Cologne; Bonn; Leipzig; Mannheim; Heidelberg; Munich; Rostock; Stuttgart; and Weimar. There are some references t
This website is “a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond”. Funded by the AHRC, this ambitious and extensive database includes digital images and commentary for key texts in the evolution of intellectual property law pertaining to five modern jurisdictions: Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the United States. Documents include “privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts
Cultures of Knowledge is the website of a project funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. The project website is hosted by the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, whose partners in the project include institutions in the UK; Wales; Hungary; the Czech Republic; and Poland. The aim of the project is to catalogue and edit the Bodleian Library's archives of correspondence of some of the 17th century's leading men of science, and make these widely available to international scholars.
