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History Matters: "I Started Filling Rifles"
You can listen to or read an interview with a woman who was a strike supporter during the Colorado Coal strike. In this interview she recalls how she helped save women and children during the Ludlow Massacre in April, 1914.
University of California
University of California, Los Angeles: Children of the Atomic Bomb
In his own words, an American physician describes the devastating effects of the atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki during World War II. Included is an online collection of images of the aftermath, videos, lesson plans, oral history...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: The Slave Experience: Family
Using oral histories and primary sources, the story of slave family life is told.
Other
Medical Breakthroughs: Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine
Scroll down to read about Dr. Albert Sabin's research on polio and the discovery of the oral polio vaccine.
Columbia University
Columbia University Libraries: Notable New Yorkers: Mamie Clark
On this website you can read about Dr. Mamie Clark, distinguished African-American educator, and hear an interview with her about her studies of race and child development. This interview is part of Columbia University's Oral History...
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: The Reluctant Politician: The Story of Irene Parlby
Irene Parlby, one of the Famous Five, came to politics reluctantly but determined to fight for the betterment of the lives of women and children on Alberta's farms. She fought to get them proper education, medical and dental care and...
Other
Stories by Grandpa
Indian mythology, festivals, and heroes are the subjects of these stories. Each is simply illustrated and the narrator (the grandpa) is identified, as well as the editor who put the story in written form.