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PBS: Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Brooklyn

Posted on January 23, 2018May 14, 2021
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PBS, aired January 16, 2018

We were so proud to have the Brooklyn Navy Yard featured in Episode 3 of the new PBS travel program Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, which explored unique sites around town including our friends at Prospect Park, Kings County Distillery, and the Gowanus Canal. Jump to 5:40 to see the segment on the Navy Yard.

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Secondary education for Black Americans was essent Secondary education for Black Americans was essentially non-existent prior to the 1830s. Schools existed, such as New York’s famed Mulberry Street School and others founded by the Manumission Society, but they ended in primary school and did not provide college preparatory training. But in the 1830s, three main factors converged to create formal opportunities for Black people to go to secondary school: demands from students themselves, the rise of the radical abolitionist movement, and the Second Great Awakening, when many religious and utopian movements pushed for egalitarian education. The first interracial, co-ed, college prep school was the Noyes Academy in Canaan, NH, founded by a combination of local and national religious and abolitionist leaders in 1834. Just a few months after opening, mob from surrounding towns descended on the school, dragged the building off its foundations with oxen, and burned it. Join our virtual discussion on Thursday, June 17 at 6pm, when we’ll look at the history of Black education during this period in New York and beyond, and the many incidents of racial violence targeting schools and learning. Link in bio. ____________________________________ #noyesacademy #blackhistory #newhampshire #nychistory #blackeducation #newenglandhistory #discovernyc #virtuallearning #virtualprogram #onlineclass #educationhistory #antebellumhistory #uppervalley #canaannh
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The view from today’s virtual tour. Join us at 6 The view from today’s virtual tour. Join us at 6pm EDT tonight as we explore the history of canals along the Connecticut River. Built around the river’s many rapids in an effort to make it navigable as far as Barnet, VT (and some schemes even dreamed of canals connecting Long Island Sound with Canada), the canal at Hartland, VT was one of the most northern to be completed, though it was destroyed in a flood in 1856. So come canoe and learn with us - link in bio. ____________________________________ #connecticutriver #vermont #vt #hartlandvt #canals #canalhistory #internalimprovements #infrastructure #canal #canoeing #paddling #virtualtour #virtuallearning
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