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In the background is a blurry map of the 13 original colonies. Text reads, “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.

Forest with many trees. The ground is bumpy with several mounds of green grass between each of the trees. Text reads, “America’s Prehistoric Civilizations: The Mound Builders.”

Exterior walls of an ancient house made of stone with a reddish hue. Parts of the roof and doorway have crumbled. Text reads, “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?

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: Maui

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: New Orleans

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: Pittsburgh (Part 1)

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: Pittsburgh (Part 2)

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: Poconos

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: San Diego

Still image from: Awesome Adventures: South California

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.

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Cubanos

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Flushing, Queens

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.

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Hip-Hop (The Boogie Down Bronx)

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.

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Open Stages

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--

Orange sky and bright sun peek through dark clouds. Text reads, “Introduction to Climate Change.”

View of farmland, desert, and a mountain range in the distance. Text reads, “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."

Men dressed in old pioneer clothes stand around outside with a cannon behind them. Text reads, “The First Inhabitants to the American Civil War.”

View of the Golden Gate Bridge over the San Francisco Bay. Text reads, “The Wild West to the 21st Century.”

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

Title text reads, "Cardinal Directions," against a black background with a map and compass.

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,

Text reads, "Colonial Times," against a background that shows a historic colonial building.

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.

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Civil War (Part 2)

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Civil War (Part I)

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Natives and the English

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: War and Expansion

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Westward Expansion

Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: When Is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America

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--

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Edgefield Pottery

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Historic Brattonsville

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Horseback Riding at Daufuskie Island

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Living History Park

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Oconee Station Cove Falls

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: On the Farm

Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Palmetto Rose

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: 1918 Flu Pandemic in S.C.

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Carolina Day

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: French and Indian War (Part 1)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: French and Indian War (Part 2)

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)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: The California Gold Rush

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: The Mexican American War

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.

Block of glacial ice rests on gravelly black ground with round balls of snow falling around it.

Woman dances on the side of a hill next to a large body of water.

Still image from: In the Wild With Bears

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

Still image from: Lab Six: Alaska (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Hawaii (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Hawaii II (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Rocks II (Spanish)

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.

Wooden sign hangs above green mountain silhouettes and reads, "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: Mossback's Northwest: Airships Over the Klondike

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Amundsen's Snowshoes

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Bison Hunters in the San Juans

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Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Emily Carr

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Frank Waldron & the Jackson Street Jazz Scene

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: George Bush--Washington's Pioneer

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: History Stands Still for No One

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Japanese Castaways in the Northwest

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Kingdome Come and Gone

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Northwest Dog Heroes

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Northwest Oystermania

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Panama Hotel

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Paul Bunyan--The Man, the Myth, the Debate

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Paul Robeson at the Peace Arch

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Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Sir Thomas Beecham's Seattle "Dustbin"

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