Since the era of "silent films," moving pictures are an important part of worldwide culture. How did movies get their start? What are the stories behind the movies? Enjoy hundreds of stories in this Collection.
On the 9th of August, 1945, a B-29 called Bocks Car dropped a plutonium-239 bomb dubbed Fat Man on the city of Nagasaki.
This film provides a history of NASA's first decade and its role in space exploration.
Nathan Hale was 21-years-old when the British executed him (in 1776) as a spy.
In this 60 Minutes segment, entitled Mr.
At the start of his musical career, Nathaniel Ayers played the largest stringed instrument in an orchestra - the double bass.
In this video clip, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plays the trumpet, then the cello, in a duet with Joanne Pearce-Martin, principal keyboardist with the Los...
Move the clip forward, to approximately 1:34, to see Robert Gupta - at the time the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - work w...
The Navajo people viewed their lands - including their mountains - as sacred.
Navajo children, today, still hear the stories about "The Long Walk" from their family members.
President Polk, believing in "Manifest Destiny," wanted to expand U.
When the Navajo refused to give up their homes and land, Kit Carson and his soldiers embarked on a "scorched earth" policy about a year before General...
The stories which the Navajo tell about "The Fearing Time" - as they made "The Long Walk" to the parched territory of Bosque Rodondo - are filled with...
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