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Still image from: 13 Colonies

US map with image of Native Americans and pilgrims sharing food. New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland, and Rhode Island are labeled, and the year 1630 is highlighted. Caption. Maryland was founded in 1632, by Lord Baltimore.

The flock of ganders is swimming in the water. Caption: These ganders are far more adventurous.

Dry, brown grass and brush with crumbling rocks throughout and a flat-topped rocky hill in the background. Caption: punctuated by hills, badlands, and bluffs --

Black and white photo of cascading waterfall and jumping salmon. Caption. Southwest Alaska is the richest red salmon producing area in the world.

Corner street signs, Madison Avenue and East 28th Street. Caption. When we get home, I call my neighbor, Max.

Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.

Still image from: Ancient History: America's Prehistoric Civilizations--The Mound Builders

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Pueblo People--The Anasazi

Aerial view of the ancient mud brick buildings and kivas of Mesa Verde under a sandstone cliff. Caption. "Mesa Verde rewrote the history of the west."

Closeup looking up at the face of the green Statue of Liberty against a blue sky. Caption. "She is, of course, the Statue of Liberty."

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: What's happening on Aug. 21st, 2017? And what can people potentially see?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I see the eclipse in totality?

Woman curtsies at a man dancing a few feet away. Both wear colorful Mexican folk dance clothing. Caption. To bring Mexican folk dance to the forefront.

White S, U, V driving down city street with parked cars. Covered bridge with windows in the distance. Caption. Queens is home to many Bolivians living in New York City.

2 women in traditional Indian dance costumes speak on a city sidewalk. Caption. Over 200,000 Indian-Americans call New York their home.

Apollo Theater marquee reads, "Urban Word N, Y, C Presents. Grand Poetry Slam Finals. Saturday, April 16, 6 P, M." Caption. Welcome to Harlem, a diverse and culturally rich neighborhood.

Crowded dance floor with lines of women passing by lines of men, some joining hands. Caption. I discover the history of our Jewish New York neighbors.

Woman is twirled from behind by a man in a dimly-lit indoor setting. Caption. That Brazilian-Americans are known for.

Closeup of a street sign that reads, "Astoria Boulevard, Hoyt Avenue" with street traffic and buildings in the distance. Caption. Also known as Little Greece.

Group of people gathered in a studio; some dancing, others seated playing drums. Caption. To preserve and promote Haitian culture through dance.

Small grocery market with people in front. Text on market sign reads, "Meat Market. J. Baczynsky." Caption. Welcome to the neighborhood known as Little Ukraine.

Chinatown market with indoor and outdoor food displays. Shoppers helped by shopkeepers in white coats. Caption. It is the oldest and most iconic of the Chineses neighborhoods.

Blue sky with puffy clouds and 9 Tennessee flags on flagpoles blowing in the wind. Text on image reads, "Music City." Caption. Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, America's music city.

Crowded city sidewalk corner with 2 teenage girls close together as people walk by. Caption. Puerto Rican neighborhoods, known as barrios.

Closeup of Times Square theater marquees brightly lit at night. Caption. Or as we now know it as Times Square.

2 Native American people wearing brightly colored traditional Native American clothing with big feathers perform a dance. Caption. "The Lumbee, the Native American tribe indigenous to this region."

Close up of a striped salamander mostly submerged and surrounded by plant life. Caption: (narrator) This pond is an ephemeral wetland.

A protected bay of light green water with a handful of buildings slightly set back from the coastline. Caption: Christopher Columbus landed in 1493

A burning ship. Caption: On the 22nd, it sinks to the bottom of the gulf of Mexico.

Animation of men digging and panning a river for gold in 1848 California. Caption. Are the key moments of the Gold Rush.

Lighthouse with outbuilding and trees as seen through dense fog. Caption: The old lighthouse shimmers in and out of view--

Still image from: California: Climate Change Impacts

Still image from: California: Geography--Coastline, Mountain Ranges and Valleys

Closeup of coral colored cactus blooms on a prickly sage colored cactus. Text on image reads, "Deserts, Rivers, Earthquakes and Human Geography."

Still image from: California: History--The First Inhabitants to the American Civil War

Still image from: California: History--The Wild West to the 21st Century

Rolling two-peaked hill and valley covered in trees. Caption: Inexplicably, Capulin Volcano is tree covered,

Still image from: Cardinal Directions

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Angel Oak Tree

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Carolina Day

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Congaree National Park

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Daufuskie Island

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Honeybee Farm (Queen Bee)

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Hunting Island

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: South Carolina State Parks

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: South Carolina Street Art

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: The State House

Tall, angular, light colored buildings with a wide central open-air walkway. Caption: What they created is alive and working today.

Cave with stalactites and stalagmites in light brown rock. Caption: and great cathedrals of rock

Black and white photo of people holding ceremonial banners attached to poles. Caption. The processions with the lighted candle.

A diver carries two oxygen cylinders and dives deep into the Floridian aqufier. Caption: It's the primary source of fresh, clean water.

Multiple multistory snow covered building complexes at the foot of snow-covered slopes. Caption: The winter sports industry supports more than 37,000 jobs

Two people at a glacier. Snow on the mountain in the background, one person standing on a rocky riverbank, the second person in the river with a measurement tool. Caption: Climate change impacts glaciers by a number of means.

Rough ocean lapping against dirt and sand embankment against a road with vehicles driving on it. Two houses over the water on stilts are starting to fall into the ocean. Caption: It's particularly vulnerable to sea level rise impacts.

Ocean shoreline on one side and rising water on the other encircle a strip of densely populated buildings. Caption: Also, sea level may rise slowly or rapidly,

Still image from: Colonial Times

Map of the United States with NE, IA, KS, MO, AR, OK, NM, and TX marked. Pawnee, OK is at the epicenter of a circle indicating an earthquake. Caption: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake northeast of Oklahoma City.

Closeup of a pile of brown leaves and pine needles on the ground.

Narrow paved path spiraling to the top of a rocky conical structure. Caption: a great fissure opened up in Central Idaho

Whale fin breaking through the surface of the water. Caption: See nature, wildlife, glaciers."

Native Americans with drums and White soldiers in red jackets and white paints, walking.

A river with brush lining the banks winds down from a mountain through evergreen trees. Caption: Here there is no fancy visitor center.

Rock formation rises sharply from evergreen tree covered ground to end in a narrowed flat-topped peak. Caption: (male narrator) There's nothing quite like it.

Close shot looking up at beams of sunlight shining through a tree. Text on image reads, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Caption. Here in Boston on September 17, 1630.

Exterior shot showing the ruins of a building. Text below reads, King James the First, 1566 to 1625. Caption. Back in 1606, King James the First granted a charter.

Dave Stotts speaks to camera. Behind him, a brick tower and small graveyard. Caption. For the Order of the Poor Clerics Regular.

Collage of images, including George Washington's painted portrait and a 1999 New Jersey Quarter that reads, "Crossroads of the Revolution, 1787." Caption. Where heroes are made and legends are created.

Dave Stotts faces camera standing next to a monument in Battle Hill, Long Island. Caption. Now home to one of the most beautiful cemeteries.

Black and white blurred photograph of multi-story buildings lining a street. Caption. Today, we have a lot of ground to cover.

Dave Stotts speaks to camera while standing in an old graveyard. Caption. Richard Clyfton was fired from his position as parson.

Dave Stotts faces camera, standing on a lawn with a white building behind him. Text on image reads, George Washington, 1732 to 1799. Caption. Now if you ever find yourself in Washington, D, C.

Portrait painting of George Fox, 1624 to 1691. He has shoulder length white hair, wearing a jacket, cravat, and wide brimmed hat. Caption. Even went as far as springing him from jail several times.

Map shows the location of the Everglades and Everglades National Park just to the south at the tip of Florida. Caption. The Everglades are a type.

An aerial view of the archipelago in Florida. Caption: It is spectacular scenery, and I can never get enough.

Man with a helmet rides a red mountain bike down a paved road amongst green trees. Caption. "Is situated on 1 of Georgia's barrier islands."

2 men wearing blue and red colonial military uniforms use wooden sticks to move a canon on a fort wall into position. Caption. "Spanish-born Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés."

Large red and white freighter ship floats in the ocean, with green plants on a beach in the foreground. Overlaid text reads, "Fort Pulaski National Monument."

Cobblestone street lined with 3-story buildings and trees. Cars drive along the street. Caption. "It is the region's oldest city."

Gray-bearded man tilts head and parts lips in mid-speech. Orange-tinged landscape with large rock formation in background. Caption. Until its monument designation in 1954.

Rolling hills lead into a wide valley. Caption: Known as Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument

Body of water between 2 landforms with high cliffs and rocky terrain. Caption. To form a boundary between 2 places.

Manmade dam as seen from below. Caption: to create even more complicated structures.

Closeup of a green plant with little green bulbs. Overlaid text reads, "George Washington Birthplace National Monument Virtual Tour."

Open field of dry, brown grass with mist hovering above it. Caption: The monument preserves the land where Carver was born--

A river runs through the grand canyon. Caption: A ribbon of water cuts through the rock,

Milwaukee on a hazy day with Lake Michigan in the foreground. Caption. It shares a border with Canada.

Person talking with an inset picture of a laboratory. Caption: People usually think science happens in the lab.

Closeup of pinkish mushrooms. Caption: Lake Seminole Farms grows oyster mushrooms.

Sloped hills leading to a body of water. Caption: from which the Hagerman fossils have been excavated.

Cartoon. Bear holds a stack of books and clothing on top of its head while wading through a river. Caption. Henry hopped from rock to rock across the Sudbury River.

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Lewis and Clark Expedition--Introduction (Part 1)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Lewis and Clark Expedition--Ocean in View (Part 3)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Lewis and Clark Expedition--The Heroes' Welcome (Part 4)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Lewis and Clark Expedition--The Journey West (Part 2)

Sunlight fades behind trees, casting a field of yellow wildflowers in shadow. Caption. Commemorates and American ideal.

Cross section of earth showing deep fissures. Caption: separated by huge cracks running deep into the crust,

$View of the ground and lake partially covered by snow. Caption: But even that is just a fraction of the total flood$

Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.

Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area

Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.

Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,

A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.

Still image from: Ice Age Mysteries: Prehistoric to Present

Still image from: If Cities Could Dance: Dear Dancer Chain Letter

Person standing in a boat holding an octopus. Caption: They actually come in to eat just the fish.

Aerial view of a landscape marked by patches of vegetation, a meandering waterway, and plots of dry earth.

Group of teenagers walk through forested area past a sign post that reads,"Ice Age National Scenic Trail."

Closeup of Upper Midwest map with a blue stain covering southwest Wisconsin and a large fuchsia stain on Missouri. Title card reads, "The Driftless," with an arrow pointing toward blue stain.

Black line drawing on light blue background. Figure drives machine that distributes water above ground. Man with flashlight surveys water dripping underground. Title card reads, "The Physics and Chemistry of Karst Topography."

Interior of a dim ice cave with icicles hanging from ceiling. Man in background exits through brightly lit opening in cave.

Black illustration on light yellow background. Waterway changes from brown to green to blue as it runs from a cityscape, past a farm, and curves into a field.

People standing on an overlook in a cave. Caption: Even the average tourist is an explorer in this cave--

Map of the northwest United States showing John Day Fossil Beds in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Clarno Unit, Sheep Rock Unit, and Painted Hills Unit are in Oregon. Caption: preserve a continuous 40-million-year fossil record

Building on the banks of a river. A sensor is connected to machinery in the house and measures the river, sending information to a satellite. Caption: The stream gauges record the vertical rise or drop

Rock formations with straight sides rise above rocky red landscape dotted with trees. Spanish captions.

Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.

Wide shot of snowy mountain peaks shrouded in clouds. Caption. A mountain is any part of the earth's surface.

Still image from: Lewis and Clark for Kids

A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.

Narrow river wends through lush green landscape. Caption. Male as narrator. On rolling hills that comprise the river valley.

Two people looking at a tree. Caption: This is what a healthy tree looks like--this bark.

Bronze sculpture depicts pioneers fording a river in a covered wagon pulled by oxen. Caption. A thematic dry riverbed with rocks cropping out.

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles at camera and stands next to a tower viewer in front of a city skyline. Caption. Today, I'm out in the city.

Wild, green grass meadow surrounded by trees with river in the distance. Caption. West Virginia entered the Union as the 35th state in 1863.

Senior man with white hair and glasses crosses arms and parts lips in mid-speech. Caption. That people have of the place.

Wide shot of the city skyline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Lake Michigan in the foreground. Caption. Milwaukee is Wisconsin's largest city.

Wide shot of fishing boats on the Mississippi River. Caption. Harvest nearly half of all oysters.

Still image from: Mount Rushmore for Kids

Wide shot of a calm lake surrounded by mountains near and far. Caption. Lake Coeur d'Alene is popular.

Wooden fence lining a path through a forest. Black and white photo of a man overlaid. Caption: bridges that the great John Muir once stood on.

Still image from: Museum Access: American Heritage Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: American Museum of Natural History

Still image from: Museum Access: American Writers Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: Mark Twain Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: Museum of the Moving Image

Large wooden ship with 3 masts is painted black and docked on a sunny day with calm waters. People walk along the dock in the background.

Still image from: Museum Access: NYC Fire Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: Salvador Dali Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: West Point Military Museum

A coastal region on the geographic map of West America is shown as the background. A region on the map of America is highlighted. Caption: Monterey Bay California. Latitude, 36.80 degrees North. Longitude, 122.00 degrees West. Average Rainfall, 480 millimeters. Sea Temperature, 11 to 15 degrees Celsius.

A photo depicts a region with a large number of trees and small water pockets. Fog rises from the earth.

Frame of building with weathered, decaying wood siding. Caption. Connecticut was an early center for making consumer goods.

New Orleans brick building with hanging ferns, light purple wrought iron balconies, decorated with colorful garlands, bows, and flags.

Closeup of light reflecting on water and a tangle of branches at bottom right of frame. Caption. Have just crossed the dominant geographical feature.

Domed, dripping rock structures line the wall of a cave. Caption: but only one that is a marble cave.

Still image from: Overview: Climber's Paradise Is the Last Refuge for an Ancient Species

Still image from: Overview: How a Mind-Blowing World of Ice Gets Made

Still image from: Overview: How Bison Are Saving America's Lost Prairie

Still image from: Overview: Meet the Fire Lookout of Big Sky Country

Still image from: Overview: Who Made These Giant Desert Figures...and Why?

Wide shot of the Portland skyline in the distance, looking through 2 glass towers in the foreground. Caption. Who have produced a thriving economy in the 21st century.

Forested hillside with a sign "Welcome to Pinnacles National Monument National Park Service Department of the Interior" Caption: is a place of great surprises.

Large barn next to small red buildings shrouded by trees beneath a dusky sky. Caption. Pipestone is a billion and a half-year-old.

Front side angle of a black and red tanker ship with the words, "Torm Alice," on side. Caption. Giant tankers with food and fuel.

Treetop view of forested area with rolling hills peeking through in background. Caption. Not the uniformity of summer's full foliage.

Small light and dark brown butterfly with wings closed sitting on a leaf. Caption: (Sally) Some of these butterflies are challenging--

Fingers of land with inlets of water. A large flat bridge in the background. Caption: Ochlockonee Bay. (Sash) It feeds that huge marine estuary down there,

A tortoise being held in a pair of human hands. Caption: Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Look at their front feet. They're just like shovels.

Glowing lava as seen from above. Caption: Where exactly magma exits and turns into solid basalt

Wooden sign with white figure aiming a spear-like arrow. Sign reads, "Russell Cave National Monument." Caption. Male as narrator. The monument's sign marks the entrance.

Person pointing to a spot on an image made of pixelated yellow to indigo spots. Caption: The USGS provides ready access to natural science information

Mountain lion in a tree. Caption: They are hard to study.

People on the deck of a boat, one at a large winch. Caption: Their mission: to learn all they can about large lakes.

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Small red animal swimming in a tank. Caption: (male narrator) These tiny, red shrimp might be perfect pets.

A lattice-work ladder leading to a platform. Instruments and cables are placed on the lattice and platform. Caption: to study an earthquake at ground zero.

Small rabbit in the snow. Caption: (Shipley) In the winter, it might eat 99% of its diet in sagebrush.

People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.

Small lizard on a hand. Caption: They are the same species but may be diverging into two.

Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.

3D graphic of a bright yellow cylindrical object with fins underwater. Caption: Barth is studying low oxygen, or dead zones,

Computer simulation of a fire moving through a forested area. Caption: to really mimic the real spread of the fire.

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Caption: The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Spanish captions.

Covered wagon is drawn by horses through a field. Man walking and a man riding a horse follow behind. Caption. And for the 5,000 immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail.

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Amethyst

Oil drilling platforms in the ocean with many ships in the water around them. Caption: but they can make money because of our energy policy.

Sandbank and land with ocean in foreground. Caption. Is a strip of islands called the Outer Banks.

Physical map of the United States with the 4 Southwest states enlarged and in colors of blue, green, red and orange. Caption. Southwest Region. In the south central portion of the continent.

A handful of white birds with long legs cluster together near the edge of a pond. Caption: a second migratory flock of whooping cranes.

Person crouched next to an electrical box on the bank of a river. Caption: to issue timely and accurate river forecasts and warnings

Ash from an eruption filling the air. Caption: An eruption could be the largest natural disaster

Image of men in Confederate uniforms riding horses in a Civil War battle reenactment. An overlay of an oval shaped photo appears next to the soldiers with text that reads, "Robert E. Lee." Caption. They don't have a general the equal of Robert E. Lee.

Teenage girl watches a young woman behind a boutique counter fold a bright fuchsia dress to pack into a store bag. Text that reads, "Teen Kids News" is next to a text box that reads, "Coming up. Threads for Teens."

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 1902)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 1904)

Still image from: The 50 States

Wide-angle shot looking down a straight, two-lane tree-lined highway, stretching out towards a snowy mountain range.

Side view of a bison with heavy fur tilting its head down and forward in the grass. Caption. In fall, bison grow a heavy coat of fur to keep them warm.

Large rounded rock formation half covered with trees and iridescent light juts out of a forested hillside.

Still image from: The Boston Tea Party

Host Emily talks to Lance Grande at the Fossil Lake in Wyoming. Caption: One of the longest-lived lake systems we know of

Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana

The Kankakee Mallow flowers have bloomed at the apex of the plant. Caption: From extinction to several feet tall.