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Há 4 dias · Early skyscrapers. The Flatiron Building, New York City, shortly after its construction in 1903. The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York and Chicago. Cities in the United States were traditionally made up of low-rise buildings, but significant ...
Há 6 dias · In 2001, Ken Burns's documentary Jazz premiered on PBS, featuring Wynton Marsalis and other experts reviewing the entire history of American jazz to that time. It received some criticism, however, for its failure to reflect the many distinctive non-American traditions and styles in jazz that had developed, and its limited representation of US developments in the last quarter of the 20th century.
21 de mai. de 2024 · By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer, and the most intensely commercialized society in history. The War of 1812 jumpstarted the great New England cotton mills, the iron centers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and the forges around the Great Lakes.
Há 3 dias · Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), institutions of higher education in the United States founded prior to 1964 for African American students. The term was created by the Higher Education Act of 1965, which expanded federal funding for colleges and universities. In the early 21st century there were more than 100 HBCUs in the ...
Há 5 dias · Pingree was one of the most influential American mayors in the 1890s – historians now rated him number 4 among all American mayors, and see him as one of the early leaders of the Progressive Era. He supported the gold standard in 1896, and worked hard to carry the city and state for William McKinley over silverite William Jennings Bryan in the intensely competitive 1896 presidential election .
20 de mai. de 2024 · The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...
2 de mai. de 2024 · 1868 First Onstage Tease. The credit for the first onstage tease in America goes to Lydia Thompson, the ambitious music-hall darling behind the peroxided burlesque troupe called “The British Blondes.”. Their first success in New York was with Ixion (1868). The mythological spoof saw women playing men’s roles.
