Looking to have a cultural experience learning about history in a party atmosphere? With frequent diversions and breaks? Then check out our History Adventures segments, which begins below:

 

 

 

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Orson Welles:

War of the Worlds:

   Tens of thousands of Americans panicked from hearing Orson Welles' 1938 Halloween radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, which he made to sound like a real space invasion by those from the planet Mars.

War Of The Worlds, 1938. Listen to an audio clip of events at Grover's Mill (MP3, 2.00 mins).

http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=tdih_oct30_broadband --video clip

Citizen Kane:

http://www.wellesnet.com/?cat=21

Orson Welles biography:

http://home.bway.net/nipper/cover.html

 

 

 Video of the December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack on the United States:

Watch Video

FDR asks Congress to declare war on Japan:

One of only a few known photographs of Roosevelt in a wheelchair.

 

Speech audio clips:

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/audio.html

FDR signs Social Security Act, 1935:

http://ap.grolier.com/staticbp?page=/static/video/roosevelt_ss.html&templatename=/static/ap.html

Franklin Roosevelt biography:

http://www.fdrheritage.org/

 

 

Live view of the Statue of Liberty:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/

 

 

Eleanor Roosevelt's December, 1937, speech concerning women's leadership roles:

http://encarta.msn.com/media_701610216/Eleanor_Roosevelt_Radio_Broadcast.html

Clip from Great Americans video--Eleanor Roosevelt:

Eleanor Roosevelt Biography: http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/erbiography.cfm

Music Video:

White Room (Cream)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDbx8PYLZA

A panorama of Times Square.

Times Square zoom camera:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/

"I have a dream" speech of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Junior, April , 1968:

 Martin Luther King jr - I Have A Dream

Martin Luther King, Junior, speaks about nonviolence:

http://www.mlkonline.net/video-martin-luther-king-anti-war.html

Biography:

http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/bio.html

Queen Mary 2 bridge cam:

http://www.cunard.com/bridgecam/qm2_cam1.asp

Videos of Howard Hughes pioneer aviation:

Archival newsreel footage of Howard Hughes primarily from the mid-1930s. Includes Hughes setting records with his H-1 racer. (4:02, silent)

Hercules Carrier (Spruce Goose) flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIhhrOhDzxA

1946 Hollywood crash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzH3H2acQq0

Heated Senate Hearings about Hughes:

http://theaviatorhh.com/

http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/

1938 Joe Louis / Max Schmeling fight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwPY5CzOGzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsXPx5A20sY&feature=related

 

Amelia Mary Earhart c.1935

Theories as to Amelia Earhart's disappearance:

http://www.tighar.org/

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/earhart.htm

Biography:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/earhart/

 

Alfred Hitchcock:

Talks about the Birds

http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/film_archive/hitchcock_alfred_video02.htm

Alfred Hitchcock Presents intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoFCFT_xG4&mode=related&search=

Cameo appearances in his movies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY-lJXCkw_U&mode=related&search

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Alexander Graham Bell:

Inventor of the telephone and teacher of the deaf

Biographical video footage

Sound Bite:   Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)   Listen

The scientist who wanted to give us free electricity, Nikola Tesla:

http://www.archive.org/details/Documentary_Tesla_Work

http://www.marxists.de/culture/twain/noteach.htm

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia
Mayor of New York City
In office January 1, 1934 – December 31, 1945

Biography:

http://www.fiorellolaguardia.lagcc.cuny.edu/laguardia/

Talks about Nikola Tesla:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAgevN9iseM

 

5 wheel car invention:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1399400155281054494

John F. Kennedy:

10 speeches

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/John_F_Kennedy_JFK.aspx

The King of Swing

Benny Goodman:

http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography.html

 

Eric Arthur Blair

Pseudonym:	George Orwell

Founder of the concept and phrase Big Brother and author of 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell:

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/

Hilo Bay, Hawaii, web camera:

http://www.tsunami.org/hilobaycam.html

http://faultgame.com/images/punk.wav

Creator of the Twilight Zone, Rod Serling:

http://www.rodserlingmuseum.com/

 

 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Teddy Roosevelt:

 

Biography

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/

 

Watch how TR stays dry on safari

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAiVub88lCI

 

 

Geronimo

Apache leader Geronimo:

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book, Kim, If--

Biography:

http://www.kipling.org.uk/

Dennis Hopper recites Rudyard Kipling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJqESdw7xs

Glacier National Park webcams:

http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

George Westinghouse
Industrial entrepreneur
George Westinghouse: AC electricity pioneer, inventor of air shocks, creator of  60 companies http://ww3.telerama.com/~rs7717/george.html

Thomas Stearns Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Biography:

http://www.luc.edu/eliot/

The Waste Land:

http://www.thoughtaudio.com/titlelist/0032-wasteland/index.html

Sound Bite:

Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen)

Listen

Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Ridge Mountain webcam:

http://www.fs.fed.us/conf/conditions/btb-streaming-1-south.htm

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJfSI4cKWLY&feature=related

Sound Bite:

Old Man (Neil Young)

  Old Man

 

That's All Folks!