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Post Civil War Era (1875-1920)
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Ages: 11 - 18
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Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined. (52:53)
February 7, 2011 at 06:51 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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A cartoon explaining the terms of the treaty, where is was held, and the effect of the treaty on the United States in the form of added land are explained. This is a cartoon and it moves rapidly, so teachers would benefit from having a map of the are...a to show the students.
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January 26, 2011 at 10:01 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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In this clip see history in the making with footage of a 1909 test flight. In the early 20th century, the age of aviation took flight with airplanes invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright. From History Uncut. (1:32)
February 23, 2012 at 08:26 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Into the Sea
From snagfilms.com, produced by Courtney Hermann, Karlyn Gibson
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This history of the Oregon Coast tells us the dream of building on beach front property can become a nightmare. This brief video could be used in a history class covering the Western US Coastline. Alternately, it could be a useful tool in a geography... lesson discussing erosion. (6:29)
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May 10, 2012 at 01:20 PM
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Ages: 15 - 18
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Historian Mary Ellen Curtin talks about early coal mining and the industry's reliance on prison labor. She describes the horrific conditions the workers endured in the late 1800s. ( 2:17)
February 23, 2012 at 06:54 AM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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Bubonic Plague
From pbslearningmedia.org, produced by WGBH Educational Foundation
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This video segment from A Science Odyssey recounts the tactics employed by San Francisco's health officials to prevent bubonic plague from reaching America's West Coast. Using physical examinations, quarantines, and deportation, city officials hoped ...to isolate disease-carrying immigrants from the general population. They also disinfected people and fumigated properties where disease-carrying rodents were thought to exist. Following the 1906 earthquake, medical research began to consider rats, rather than humans, as the vector responsible for transmitting the disease. Scientists in India discovered that, in fact, it was the fleas carried by rats that were ultimately responsible for transmitting bubonic plague from diseased rats to humans. (5:06)
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February 26, 2012 at 12:14 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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What are the historical roots and causes behind the Mountain Meadow Massacre? Polygamy, paranoia, and a violent theocracy in 19th-Century Utah. This short synopsis of the events leading up to this tragedy is explained by Sandra Tanner and Scott Fanch...er, who are descendants of the perpetrators and victims, respectively. In 1857, 120 unarmed members of a wagon train moving through southern Utah were attacked and slaughtered at the hands of Mormon militia. Violent descriptions.
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December 9, 2010 at 02:03 AM
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