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Pbs: Early America: Dr. Thomas Walker
Video segment presents a discussion of early explorer Dr. Thomas Walker and the settlement of Kentucky. Walker's journal is used to document his expeditions and their importance in settling the area west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Pbs: Early America: Hensley Settlement
This video segment from the KET series Kentucky Life visits the Hensley Settlement in the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park., a pioneer community.
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Pbs: Indian Pride: Spirituality, Part 3
A member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana performs traditional music through singing, flutes, and other instruments.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: Keeping Cultures Alive Today
This segment shows ways in which today's Cherokees are transmitting the remnants of their culture to the younger generation in an attempt to preserve what is left.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: A Visit to New Echota
A tour of the New Echota Historic Site in Gordon County in Georgia points out the aspects of Cherokee culture that paralleled that of whites. It was here that Sequoyah developed the Cherokee alphabet giving Cherokees a written language.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: Chief William Mc Intosh, a Georgia Biography
William McIntosh, the son of a Creek woman and a Scotsman and called "white warrior", fought with the Americans during the War of 1812 and was given the rank of general.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: Archaeology
An archaeologist takes us on a dig at Raccoon Ridge near Madison, in Morgan County and uncovers the tiniest artifacts in order to understand how the earliest Georgians lived.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: The Trail of Tears
Cherokee Indians were rounded up by U.S. soldiers and herded into stockades until all were assembled after the treaty ending Cherokee pressence was signed. Mavis Doering recounts the words she heard from her grandmother who was on the...
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Pbs: Native America: Inca Origins
A temple at the center of Cuzco, Peru, called Qorikancha, marks the place of Inca origins and it is the primary temple of the sun god Inti.
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Pbs: Israeli and Palestinian Teen Deaths Escalate Tensions in the Middle East
Israeli and Palestinian Teen Deaths Escalate Tensions in the Middle East Bring students the latest news on the increased tension between Israelis and Palestinians with this PBS NewsHour video and educational resource from July 7, 2014.
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Pbs: Georgia Stories: The Westward Movement, Part I
Georgia's economic development was quickly advanced by a gold rush during the 1830s which led to greater demand for land in Georgia and multiple Native American tribes being sent on the Trail of Tears.
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Pbs: Nova: How Do You Get to the Moon?
This video details the three competing mission plans considered for landing a manned spacecraft on the lunar surface and focuses on how the Moon's low-gravity conditions and lack of atmosphere influenced the design and manufacture of the...
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Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: Shady Grove/bandyrowe
In this video folksinger Jean Ritchie performs the Appalachian tune "Shady Grove," a traditional song she learned from her family and "Bandyrowe," a song for which she made up verses to help get her two sons to sleep when they were very...
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Pbs: Kentucky/appalachian Culture: The Two Gals
In this video, storyteller Anndrena Belcher tells the story of two sisters, one kind and compassionate, the other lazy and greedy, and their separate adventures in a land they discover at the bottom of their well.
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Pbs: Early America: Foo Boo Woo Boo John
Watch a demonstration of how to play the jaw harp as an expert musician performs "Foo Boo Woo Boo John," a traditional folk song that came to America from England.
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Pbs: Early America: Derby Ram
Listen to a performance of the English-American song "Derby Ram", a purported favorite of George Washington, for a group of students who sing, stomp, and clap along.
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Pbs: Early America: Cluck Old Hen/i Had a Rooster
Listen to two folk songs about animals in traditional Southern style both featuring the banjo, a traditional gourd banjo on "Cluck Old Hen" and today's steel-string banjo on "I Had a Rooster." Discussion about the gourd banjo's origins...
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Palestrina
After a brief introduction to Renaissance music and the composer, key characteristics of Renaissance music is discussed.
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: About the Pavane
This video explains the purpose and form of the Pavane, an Elizabethan processional dance.
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: About the Bransle
This video explains the purpose and structure of the Maltese Bransle, a country dance that was popular in the courts of England and France during the Renaissance.
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Bransle
In this video viewers watch as Kentucky students perform the Maltese Bransle, a country dance that was popular in the royal courts of France and England during the Renaissance.
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Pavane
In this video viewers watch as Kentucky students dance the Pavane, a processional dance from the Renaissance.
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Chris Layton: Historical Interpretation: Point of View and Bias
A flipped lesson identifying the concepts of historical interpretation with a specific focus on point of view and bias. [8:00]