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This introductory video explores one of America's darkest periods: President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1838. Nearly a quarter of the Cherokee died during the Trail of Tears. This video (some of which is a re-enactment) is suitable for high school students. (7:10)
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August 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM
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Watch Flat Stanley as he goes on a fourteen-day trip and visits sites in Texas, Arkansas, Tennesee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Georgia. Stanley's trip is described in detail through narration and photos. Some of the sites he visited include Bill Clinton's Presidential Library, Andrew Jackson's home, the Oval Office, Washington Monument, Capitol Building, and Library of Congress. (07:02)
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August 20, 2011 at 01:31 PM
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This video is accompanied by text. "Andrew Jackson was elected as President of the United States because the American people saw him as the “everyman.” His leadership during the Battle of New Orleans in 1819 gave him the respect of wealthy businessmen, and his simple roots resonated with those who were struggling to carve their own niche. However, his popularity did not ensure that he would avoid scandal and resentment during his presidency.
Jackson’s supporters, angry over John Quincy Adams’ win in the 1824 election, strategized to sabotage his presidency..."
Found by helpingnorth in The Age of Jackson 1828-1848
December 23, 2009 at 04:56 PM
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From DragonflyTV. Katelyn and Blake are nuts about animals-especially reptiles! Katelyn is a junior volunteer at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi and knows a lot about reptiles. So she takes Blake to a swamp and an indoor exhibit at the museum to teach him more about reptiles, especially the alligator.
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August 24, 2010 at 09:37 PM
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Video accompanied by text. "South Carolina stood firm against the Tariff of 1828 with such acts of defiance as lowering the flags to half-mast. These displays made President Jackson realize that intervention was necessary. John C. Calhoun still carried some influence with the president, who at Calhoun’s urging encouraged Congress to enact the Tariff of 1832. This new tariff reduced the rate of the Tariff of 1828. However, producers in the south remained distraught over the high tariffs and resisted this compromise, as well..."
Found by helpingnorth in The Age of Jackson 1828-1848
December 23, 2009 at 05:06 PM
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This short video gives fun facts about our Presidents such as the following: James Madison was the first president to wear long pants, Andrew Jackson survived a dual and lived with a bullet in his chest for 40 years, and John Tyler fathered the most children. He had 15. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections in the classroom. (1:21)
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February 21, 2012 at 07:55 PM
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Some of America's greatest traditional blues masters get together at home to swap songs from the old days and stories of what those days were like, when blues flourished 'back down home' at country breakdowns, corn-shuckings and houseparties. These musicians and their friends
create the lively spirit of houseparty blues, while conveying the
values, the history, the good and bad times, and the sense of community that gave form to their music and dance (Blurb by Dick Spottswood)
Featuring: John Cephas, Phil Wiggins, Archie Edwards, John Jackson, James Jackson, Cora Jackson, Flora Molton, Larry Wise, John Dee Holeman, and Quentin 'Fris' Holloway. (57 min.)
ECP Resource John Cephas sings The Ballad of John Henry
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January 19, 2012 at 09:52 AM
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His life and career and the influence of his wife are the subject of this two minute video. This is a brief biography of this president and it dwells on his personality as well as his accomplishments. Also, of note, is his election and conflict with Andrew Jackson.
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November 7, 2010 at 09:01 PM
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In this videotaped talk at a table by a metropolitan city window, author Rick Riordan briefly describes the plots and characters in the first three books of his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He discloses his favorite character and favorite enemy. (2:15)
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July 12, 2009 at 04:42 PM
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This news segment is from ABC affiliate WAPT, Channel 16, out of Jackson, MS. WatchKnowLearn's CEO, Dr. Joe Thomas, explains that, "kids nowadays are digital natives. They want rich, visual media. In fact they expect it, if not demand it in the classroom..." (01:00)
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September 21, 2011 at 09:11 AM
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The sideways moonwalk is a very popular hip hop dance move from the Micheal Jackson era. Learn how to do the sideways moonwalk hip hop dance move with tips from a choreographer in this free dance lesson video. This is a step that you will see all the time. English captions. (1:59)
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May 2, 2010 at 07:51 AM
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This news segment is from NBC affiliate WLBT, Channel 3 in Jackson, MS. It is an interview with our CEO, Dr. Joe Thomas, who will be traveling on a year-long bus tour with his family starting in October. He briefly explains the design of the website, WatchKnowLearn's history and vision, and the national bus tour. (03:10)
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September 21, 2011 at 09:35 AM
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In the hours following the assassination of Dr. King, public figures like Jesse Jackson and Bobby Kennedy voiced their reactions publicly. (02:45)
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January 14, 2013 at 06:15 PM
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In this video clip, learn more about how General Robert E. Lee defies military convention to defeat the Union at Chancellorsville. Robert E. Lee makes a gambling move when he splits his army into sections and sends Jackson away with one section of the troops. (2:30)
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May 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM
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The 11th Presidential election in American history took place from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. Uh-oh, we gotta re-match! 4 years prior, after a 4-way split with no majority candidate, John Quincy Adams was handed the election by the House of Representatives. Andrew Jackson, who finished second in the House vote, thought the election was shady, accusing Henry Clay of a corrupt bargain to get Adams elected President so that Clay could be his Secretary of State. (05:37)
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December 23, 2009 at 04:51 PM
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Turk Pipkin chronicles his journey into the Himalayas with a Seva medical team for a remote surgical eye camp in Nepal that restores the sight of blind people who've been carried across the mountains by their family members. The modern miracle of restoring sight to the blind is a moving testament to Seva's work to provide eyecare across the globe. Special thanks to Jackson Browne for the use of "Doctor My Eyes", courtesy of Open Window/Criterion Music. (07:29)
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March 24, 2016 at 02:22 PM
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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion? Or that Andrew Jackson was involved in over 100 duels? These are 25 things you probably didn't know about U.S. Presidents. (04:59)
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July 21, 2014 at 12:41 PM
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History Detectives investigates a letter which indicates that thirty years before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Booth's father threatened to kill another sitting president, Andrew Jackson. The letter to Jackson reads, "You damn'd old scoundrel... I will cut your throat whilst you are sleeping." Is this letter a hoax? Or does assassination run in the Booth blood? (17:33)
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December 21, 2014 at 05:20 PM
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In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case. Run time 18:19.
Found by begamatt in Water Pollution & Conservation
July 11, 2010 at 05:36 PM
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Join Glen Jacques as he introduces his avalanche rescue dog, Grover Cleveland, in snowy Jackson Hole. (1:20)
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October 23, 2011 at 10:16 PM
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Copyright: Folklore Research Films, Inc, March 1966
29 minutes, Black and White Original format: 16mm, 1966
Pete Seeger and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by inmates of the Ellis Unit.
Worksongs helped African American prisoners survive the grueling
work demanded of them. With mechanization and integration, worksongs like these died out shortly after this film was made.
Bruce Jackson's book Wake Up Dead Man (University of Georgia Press) is a highly recommended study of work songs in Texas prisons. The large plantations in the U.S. South were based on West
African agricultural models and, with one major difference, the black
slaves used worksongs in the plantations exactly as they had used them before they had been taken prisoner and sold to the white men. The difference was this: in Africa the songs were used to time body
movements and to give poetic voice to things of interest because people
wanted to do their work that way; in the plantations there was added a component of survival. If a man were singled out as working too slowly, he would often be brutally punished. The songs kept everyone together, so no one could be singled out as working more slowly than everyone else. -- From Bruce Jackson's background notes on making this film.
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In 1898, Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier the defining
feature of American culture, but American authors had uncovered its
significance much earlier. This program turns to three key writers of
the early national period (James Fenimore Cooper, John Rollin Ridge, and Walt Whitman) and examines the influential visions of American manhood offered by each author.
Found by grazianione in American Passages Series
March 8, 2010 at 12:44 PM
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The worlds’ oceans are under tremendous threat from a variety of human actions. But marine ecologist Jeremy Jackson doesn’t think it’s game over yet. After a decades-long career studying factors damaging our oceans—seaweed overgrowth in coral reefs, pollution, disease, climate change—Jackson hopes to find effective scientific solutions to save the world’s largest ecosystem. While his most sobering studies reveal dire realities, they also reveal the resilience of the ocean if humans can give it the space to recover. (23:41)
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September 9, 2019 at 08:55 AM
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Two specialists work on basic theatre skills with children of various ages, and use theatre education as a gateway to other kinds of learning. At Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans, Amanda Newberry’s lesson in improvisation with a third–grade class stimulates students’ imagination, heightens language and listening skills, and encourages critical thinking. At Barney Ford Elementary School in Denver, George Jackson teaches basic movement skills to a first–grade class, invites fourth–graders to take center stage as they explore a script, and works with fifth–graders to create masks that reveal inner feelings. (28:26)
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March 5, 2011 at 01:06 PM
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From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James; As heard in the HBO film "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" featuring Oprah Winfrey
Markus James - gourd banjo and Calvin Jackson - hambone (02:41)
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July 4, 2019 at 04:11 PM
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