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    The lyceum movement in the United States refers to a loose collection of adult education programs named for the classical Lyceum which flourished in the...
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  • The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe. The definition varies among...
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    American locations. The Chautauqua movement beginning in the 1870s may be regarded as a successor to the Lyceum movement from the 1840s. As the Chautauquas...
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    were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. During the lyceum movement that flourished in the United States in the 19th century, women named...
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    The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god"). It was best known for...
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  • Autodidacticism (category Lyceum movement)
    Movement of 1968 1968 protests in Poland 1968 East L.A. walkouts 1965 Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu 1964-65 U.C. Berkeley Free Speech Movement 1960...
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  • The Boston Lyceum (est.1829) of Boston, Massachusetts was a civic association dedicated to popular education in the form of "lectures, discussions, .....
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    Zebulon Vance (category Lyceum movement)
    Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th and 43rd governor of North Carolina, a...
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  • to: Lyceum (classical), a gymnasium in Athens, location of Aristotle's peripatetic school Oregon Lyceum, 1840s Pioneer political forum Lyceum movement, United...
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    John Lawson Stoddard (category Lyceum movement)
    John Lawson Stoddard (April 24, 1850 – June 5, 1931) was an American lecturer, author and photographer. He was a pioneer in the use of the stereopticon...
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  • The Franklin Lyceum (est. 1831) of Providence, Rhode Island was a membership organization dedicated to autodidacticism in the 19th century. Its members...
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    Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living Tax resistance...
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    kindergartens and the Gymnasium (school), while Yankee orators sponsored the Lyceum movement that provided popular education for hundreds of towns and small cities...
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    Ezra Ripley, at what was later named The Old Manse. Given the budding Lyceum movement, which provided lectures on all sorts of topics, Emerson saw a possible...
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    Mexican–American War (1846–1848). In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum entitled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government"...
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  • The Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (est. 1829) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded "to promote and direct popular education by...
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    The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
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    native of Gloucester." The Lyceum became the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library under a new charter in 1872. Lyceum movement Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • The Oregon Lyceum or Pioneer Lyceum and Literary Club was founded in Oregon City, Oregon Country around 1840. The forum was a prominent fixture for the...
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    Josiah Holbrook (category Lyceum movement)
    organizer of the lyceum movement in the United States. He formed the first industrial school in the country in 1819, organized the first lyceum school in the...
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    Axel Skovgaard (category Lyceum movement)
    country, often giving concerts under the auspices of the Chautauqua and Lyceum organizations. Their publications are, in fact, the primary source of information...
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    Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum is an essay style letter-to-the-editor written by Henry David Thoreau and published in The Liberator in 1845...
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    Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living Tax resistance...
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    Schaff – American educator for adult literacy (1932–2012) Chautauqua Lyceum movement – US series of organizations sponsoring public education programs and...
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    more than 45 million. The movement combined several concepts prevalent in the post-civil war US, including: The Lyceum movement which attempted to raise...
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  • the United States, the modern lecture circuit was preceded by the Lyceum movement, popular during the 19th century. It encouraged local organisations...
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    the New York bureau of the Redpath Lyceum from late 1869 until 1879. This organization was part of the Lyceum movement, which arranged for speakers and...
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    The Boston Lyceum Bureau (est.1868) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a project of James Redpath and George L. Fall. Its office stood at no.36 Bromfield Street...
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    Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living Tax resistance...
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    attracted hundreds of viewers. These public lectures were a part of the lyceum movement and demonstrated basic scientific experiments, which advanced scientific...
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