Understanding American Cultures

Understanding American Cultures Weblinks

Jim Crow Voting

Llike a city on a Hill"

City on a Hill sourcewatch

" Standing on the tiny deck of the Arabella in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast, John Winthrop said, “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.” Well, we have not dealt falsely with our God, even if He is temporarily suspended from the classroom."- Ronald Reagan, CPAC 1974

"And that's about all I have to say tonight. Except for one thing. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still." Ronald Reagan Farewell Speech to Congress 1989

10/20/06

Pine Ridge Reservation-Wikipedia

Native American statistics

North Dakota Fighting Sioux

10/06/06
-March on Washingotn for Jobs and Freedom

stanton-mott pics

10/04/06
Drag show ("serious")
Womanless Wedding -modern
Womanless Wedding - old

Flip Wilson/Geraldine

Gorgeous George Ric Flair

Our America: LeAlan and Lloyd audio

9/29/06

Commonwealth club Audio Archive-Cesar Chavez

UFW: audio & video of Cesar Chavez

Wikipedia Mexican American War

PBS Mexican American War

Corrido De Cesar Chavez

Spring 2007

2-23 (Chavesz, Galarza, Anzaldua)

Commonwealth Club

Gloria Anzaldua