Architectural+Influences+from+Europe+to+America


 * **Architecture:** Compare [|The Four Courts, Dublin Ireland], available via [|Britannica.com], a link from the EDSITEment resource [|The Internet Public Library], to [|The Rotunda of the University of Virginia, Designed by Thomas Jefferson], accessible through a link from the EDSITEment resource [|Center for the Liberal Arts]. NOTE: For the University of Virginia photo, move to the photograph at the top of the page.

French Influences >
 * **Images:** Compare [|Iron work from a bakery in Paris] (available on [|Paris.org], a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website [|American Association of Teachers of French]) to [|Detail of ironwork on a second floor balcony at 343 Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans] (available from the EDSITEment resource [|American Memory]).
 * **Audio/Video:** Hear or view performances of and/or get background information on the following traditional French, Zydeco and Cajun music available through the EDSITEment-reviewed website [|River of Song]:
 * [|D.L. Menard, The Cajun Hank Williams] ([|Background information])
 * [|Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie] ([|Background information])
 * [|Ste. Genevieve Guignolée Singers] ([|Background information])
 * [|Ste. Genevieve Guignolée Singers] ([|Background information])

Influences from Holland
 * **Place Name:** Baton Rouge, Louisiana. What language is "Baton Rouge"? What does "Baton Rouge" mean? To find out, enter the words in the [|AltaVista Translation Service], a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website [|The Internet Public Library].
 * **Explorer's Voyage:** Review [|Hudson, Map of Third Voyage], available through [|Discoverers Web], a link from the EDSITEment resource [|Columbus and the Age of Discovery]. In the frame to the left, select "Third Voyage: Map."
 * **Images:** Find the following posters, depicting events that took place from 1656 to 1658, on the EDSITEment resource [|American Memory] (each image can be found by searching by title):
 * History of civic services in the city of New York: Water supply No. 1: The first public well was dug opposite the fort.
 * History of civic services in the city of New York: Fire Department No. 1: Fire department founded by Petrus Stuyvesant.
 * History of civic services in the city of New York: Police No. 1: The rattle watch.

>> >> This map of New York City was presented to James, Duke of York (1633-1701), the future James II, shortly after the English captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664. Probably copied from a map made for Dutch authorities in 1661 by Jacques Cortelyou, the map shows the town walls from which the name "Wall Street" is derived as well as the Battery. 
 * **Additional Maps:** Review the following maps available on the [|Library of Congress] website, a link from the EDSITEment resource [|American Memory]:
 * [|Manatus gelegen op de Noot Rivier, 1639] Johannes Vingboons's manuscript map on vellum in pen and ink and watercolor wash. ([|Background information])
 * [|Description of the Towne of Mannados or New Amsterdam as it was in September 1661, 1664] This map was created with writing in English, less than three years after a map written in Dutch. Why do students think this happened? (The English had taken over the territory.) The following background information is provided by the Library of Congress: