Webcast Recording: “Welcome to ATLAS! Using Social Media to Promote Digital Photos”
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Alliance Library System(ALS) and Learning Times recently conducted an online conference to debut ATLAS, a new set of social media tools to promote history and digital photographs. A recording of the event is available for anytime playback from the link below.
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Historians generally agree that Lincoln’s Peoria speech was among the most able he ever delivered. “It is a landmark in his career,” wrote Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. “It …lays the abiding foundation of everything he thought thereafter. In this great speech, the end of his novitiate, he rings the changes on the white man’s charter of liberty.”
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Some would like to forget that it was distilleries and breweries that made Peoria a boom town where fortunes were made almost overnight. Peoria once produced more whiskey than any city in history. The whiskey tax that Peoria paid to the federal government was larger than any other district in the United States, ahead of Chicago and Cincinnati.
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Standing atop Grand View Drive visitors can see what the Native Americans must have seen 12,000 years ago when they first discovered the lush river valley of Peoria. In 1910, President Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase, World’s Most Beautiful Drive, when he visited Peoria and toured the two and half miles of Grand View Drive.
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