EyeWitness Accounts (• = Interactive) Making an Ancient Egyptian Mummy The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC Everday Life in Ancient Greece The Suicide of Socrates, 399 BC Alexander Defeats the Persians, 331 BC • The Death of Alexander the Great, 323 BC The Ideal Physician, 320 BC • How to Keep a Slave in Ancient Rome, 170 BC The Druids, 54 BC Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC The Assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 BC A Portrait of Julius Caesar Cleopatra Seduces Antony, 41 BC Gladiators, 50 AD The Burning of Rome, 64 AD Nero Persecutes the Christians, 64 AD The Romans Destroy the Temple at Jerusalem, 70 AD Rome Celebrates the Vanquishing of the Jews, 71 AD The Grandeur of Rome,75 AD The Destruction of Pompeii, 79 AD The Death of a Martyr, 203 AD What to do with the Christians? 112 AD The Fall of Rome • Dining with Attila the Hun, 448 AD • Life in a Christian Monastery, ca. 585 The Vikings Discover America, ca. 1000 • Invasion Of England, 1066 The Crusaders Capture Jerusalem, 1099 The Murder Of Thomas Becket, 1170 Anarchy in 12th Century England Richard The Lionheart Massacres The Saracens, 1191 • The Kublai Khan in Battle, 1287 A Medieval Murder, 1300 The Black Death, 1348 The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349 The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 The Sack of Constantinople, 1453 Columbus Discovers America, 1492 America Sends Syphilis to Europe, 1493 The Death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503 Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel The Death of Magellan, 1521 An Audience with Queen Mary I, 1557 The Spanish Massacre the French in Florida, 1565 Brought Before the Inquisition, 1573 • The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587 Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England Torture in the Tower of London, 1597 An Audience with Queen Elizabeth, 1597 Captain John Smith is Saved by Pocahontas, 1608 Aboard the Mayflower, 1620 The First Thanksgiving, 1621 The Price of Adultery in Puritan Massachusetts, 1641 Living Amoung the Mohawks, 1644 The Execution of Charles I, 1649 The Great Fire of London, 1666 Inside the Court of Louis XIV, 1671 New York City, 1679 The Salem Witch Trials Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11 A London Hanging, 1726 George Washington's Rules of Good Behavior, 1746 Passage to America, 1750 Captured by Indians, 1758 Courtship in New England, 1760 Daniel Boone Opens Up the West, 1769-71 The Boston Massacre, 1770 The Boston Tea Party, 1773 Getting Sick, 1774 Battle at Lexington Green, 1775 Battle at Lexington Green: The British Perspective 1775 Ethan Allen Captures Fort Ticonderoga, 1775 Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776 Washington Crosses the Delaware, 1776 The Continental Army at Valley Forge, 1777 "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!", 1779 The British Surrender at Yorktown, 1781 Thomas Jefferson's Advice to his Daughter, 1783 Slave Trade: the African Connection, 1788 The Inauguration of George Washington, 1789 Building America, 1789 The Beginning of the French Revolution, 1789 The Execution Of Louis XVI, 1793 Joining the British Navy, 1793 Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793 The Death of George Washington, 1799 Washington, D.C., 1800 President Jefferson in the White House A Duel At Dawn, 1804 The Death of Lord Nelson, 1805 Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 "Shanghaied", 1811 "Old Ironsides" Earns its Name, 1812 The British Burn Washington, 1814 Dolley Madison Flees the White House, 1814 The Battle of New Orleans, 1815 The Battle of Waterloo, 1815 Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815 The Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson, 1829 Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829 America's First Steam Locomotive, 1830 A Portrait of America, 1830 Traveling the National Road, 1833 • A Slave's Life "Remember the Alamo!," 1836 Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836 Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837 Escape From Slavery, 1838 A Flogging at Sea, 1839 P.T. Barnum Discovers "Tom Thumb," 1842 Living among the Shakers, 1843 Visit to the Red Light District, 1843 Buffalo Hunt, 1846 The Irish Potato Famine, 1847 The Tragic Fate of the Donner Party, 1847 • California Gold Rush, 1849 Aboard a Whaling Ship, 1850 Vigilante Justice, 1851 Entering the Forbidden City of Mecca, 1853 Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 • Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854 Return of a Fugitive Slave, 1854 Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855 Andrew Carnegie Becomes a Capitalist, 1856 The Sack of Lawrence, Kansas, 1856 • Slave Auction, 1859 Good Manners for Young Ladies, 1859 John Brown's Raid, 1859 John Brown Defends His Raid, 1859 • Fort Sumter, the First Shot of the Civil War, 1861 Views of President Lincoln, 1861 An Early Casualty of the Civil War, 1861 • Pony Express Rider, 1861 Riding The Overland Stage, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run, 1861 Battle of the Ironclads, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh, 1862 • Battlefield Tragedy, 1862 Carnage At Antietam, 1862 President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Bread Riot in Richmond, 1863 The Battle Of Gettysburg, 1863 Pickett's Charge, 1863 Lee's Retreat From Gettysburg, 1863 William Quantrill Raids Lawrence, Kansas, 1863 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863 • Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864 Lincoln Enters Richmond, 1865 Surrender At Appomattox, 1865 President Lincoln is Shot, 1865 The Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865 The Death Of John Wilkes Booth, 1865 The Civil War Ends, 1865 The South in Defeat, 1865 Crossing The Plains, 1865 The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 Ku Klux Klan, 1868 Completing the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 Shoot Out with Wild Bill Hickok, 1869 Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871 Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1871 Buffalo Bill Entertains a Russian Grand Duke, 1872 Battle With The Apache, 1872 Captured by the Arapaho, 1875 The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875 Encounter with the Texas Rangers, 1876 The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, 1876 Traveling on an Emigrant Train, 1879 The Death Of Billy The Kid, 1881 The Death Of President Garfield, 1881 A Portrait of Thomas Edison A Cowboy in Dodge City, 1882 Ranchers and Farmers Collide in Nebraska, 1884 College Football, 1884 Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890 Opulence in the Gilded Age, 1890 • Death of a Child, 1890 The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892 Corbett Knocks Out Sullivan, 1892 The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1893 Hobo, 1894: Hard Times in America Leaving Home for the "Promised Land", 1894 America's First Automobile Race, 1895 First to Sail Alone Around the World, 1895-98 The United States Declares War on Spain, 1898 The Battle of Manila Bay, 1898 The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Rob a Train, 1899 • Prisoner of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900 The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Farm Wife, 1900 The Death of Queen Victoria, 1901 The Assassination of President William McKinley, 1901 • The Roosevelts Move Into the White House, 1901 • Riding a Rural Free Delivery Route, 1903 The Wright Brothers' 1st Flight, 1903 The Hanging of Tom Horn, 1903 Immigrating to America, 1905 San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 Early Adventures With The Automobile The Gibson Girl Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908 A Walk with President Roosevelt, 1908 Children At Work, 1908-1912 On Safari, 1909 Birth of the Hollywood Cowboy, 1911 Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 First Woman to Fly the English Channel, 1912 Doomed Expedition to the South Pole, 1912 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914 The German Army Marches through Brussels, 1914 The Beginning of Air Warfare, 1914 Christmas in the Trenches, 1914 Battle At Gallipoli, 1915 The Birth of the Fighter Plane, 1915 The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915 • Massacre of the Armenians, 1915 • The Battle of Jutland, 1916 A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916 The Battlefield Debut of the Tank, 1916 In the American Ambulance Field Service, 1916 U-boat Attack, 1916 Gas Attack, 1916 Death of a Zeppelin, 1916 The Red Baron Scores Two Victories, 1917 Torpedoed! 1917 America Declares War on Germany, 1917 The Execution of Mata Hari, 1917 The Bolsheviks Storm the Winter Palace, 1917 Death Of An Air Ace, 1918 The Beginning of the End of World War I, 1918 The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918 Lawrence of Arabia, 1918 Armistice, 1918 Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919 Making Movies, 1920 The Unknown Soldier Returns Home Entering King Tut's Tomb, 1922 Calvin Coolidge is Sworn in as President, 1923 Adolph Hitler Attempts a Coup, 1923 Air Conditioning Goes to the Movies, 1925 Prohibition, 1927 Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 Babe Ruth Hits His 60th Home Run, 1927 The Wall Street Crash, 1929 The Bonus Army Invades Washington, D.C., 1932 The Reichstag Fire, 1933 Shoot-Out with Bonnie and Clyde, 1933 Migrant Mother, 1936 The Bombing of Guernica, 1937 The Rape of Nanking, 1937 • Dining with the King and Queen of England, 1938 The Beginning of World War II, 1939 London Goes to War, 1939 Blitzkrieg, 1940 Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940 France Surrenders, 1940 • Hitler Tours Paris, 1940 France in Defeat, 1940 The Battle of Britain, 1940 The London Blitz, 1940 The Nazi Occupation Of Poland The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944 Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 - the Japanese View Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 - the White House Reaction The Doolittle Raid, 1942 The Bataan Death March, 1942 The Battle of Midway, 1942 Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942 • Reconnaissance Patrol, 1943 Bombling Raid on Ploesti, 1943 • The Bloody Battle of Tarawa, 1943 A Battlefield Death, 1944 A GI's Trip to London, 1944 Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944 Shot Down Over France, 1944 "Loose Lips Sink Ships", 1944 Invasion of Normandy, 1944: On the Beach Invasion of Normandy, 1944: A Civilian's View The Liberation of Paris, 1944 America's Front Line Soldier, 1944 Charles Lindbergh in Combat, 1944 Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944 The Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944 General Patton Interrogates a SS General, 1944 Kamikaze Attack, 1944 Sunk by Submarine, 1944 Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 Capturing the Bridge at Remagen, 1945 The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945 The Death of President Franklin Roosevelt, 1945 The Battle of Berlin, 1945 The War Ends in Europe, 1945 Berlin in Defeat, 1945 London Celebrates VE Day, 1945 Germany in Defeat, 1945 The 1st Atomic Blast, 1945 The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, 1945 The Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 Thoughts Of A President, 1945 Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball's Color Barrier, 1945 The Sentencing and Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 1946 • The Assassination of Gandhi, 1948 The Russians Discover a Spy Tunnel in Berlin, 1956 The Hungarian Revolution, 1956 Images Of War 1918-1971 The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963 • Apollo 8: First Voyage to the Moon, 1968 President Nixon Meets Elvis,1970 • Payoff to the Vice President, 1971 President Nixon Leaves the White House, 1974

Voices Of The 20th Century Requires Fire Fight, 1899 Eugene V. Debs, 1904 Expedition to the North Pole, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt 1912 Charles Lindbergh, 1927 Senator Huey Long, 1935 Explosion of the Hindenburg, 1937 Great Britain declares war against Germany, 1939 Gas Rationing, 1942 D-Day, 1944 Tokyo Rose 1944 Franklin Roosevelt 1944 Invasion of Iwo Jima, 1945 FDR dies, 1945 Lord Haw-Haw's last broadcast, 1945 Germany Surrenders, 1945 Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, 1945  SnapShots - gateways to history The "Promised Land", 1912     Immigration at the Turn of the Century     City Life     A Tragic Fire America in World War I     America in the Great War     Sinking of the Lusitania     America Declares War     Sabotage at Home     Posters at War     Armistice America in the 1920s     The Changing World of Work     Advertising in the 20s     Women Win the Vote     Prohibition     The Wall Street Crash America in the 1930s     The Great Depression     The Dust Bowl     Public Enemy #1 - John Dillinger     Bonus Army  History in Motion - film clips from the past The Great Train Robbery, 1903 part 1 The Great Train Robbery, 1903 part 2 The Streets of New York City, 1916 Assembling the Ford Model T, 1916 Induction Parade, 1917 U-boat Attack, 1917 Tanks, 1918 Escape from an Observation Balloon, 1918 Flying Ace, 1918 Advancing to the Front, 1918 Combat, 1918 Bond Rally, 1918 Armistice, 1918 The Dust Bowl, 1936 The Hindenburg Arrives Over New York City, 1937 The Hindenburg Explodes, 1937 The Japanese Launch Their Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor, 1941 World War II - The Home Front

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