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Still image from: Fun Facts for 50 States

Text reads, "George Washington," against a digital illustration of George Washington, holding a finger to the sky.

Federal Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg and a man dressed as George Washington stand in front of a stately building. Text reads, “George Washington: History Speaks. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit and George Washington, Portrayed by Dean Malissa.”

Map of eastern United States with north shaded blue and south shaded red. Dashed arrows point to a red dot labeled "Gettysburg."

Color billboard cutout of a bull with horns, red eyes, blowing smoke through his nostrils. Text on billboard reads. Hit bull, win steak, hit grass, win salad.

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: Hoppin' Plate of History

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

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

Silhouette of a seventeenth century sailing vessel at sunset. Caption. Hudson's crew worried the voyage might be cursed.

Color illustration. Young Black boy stands, looking apprehensive, next to a man laying in bed and looking back at him. Caption. Some slaves were freed by their owners.

Still image from: Hidden Figures: Timeline

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Birth of the Constitution

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: The California Gold Rush

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: The Space Race (Part 2)

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: The Trail of Tears

Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Women's Suffrage Movement (Part 2)

Still image from: History of Valentine's Day for Kids

Black and white image of nineteenth century men surrounding an unconscious Abraham Lincoln wearing white and lying in bed.

1800s sepia-toned photo of 2 Chinese toddlers seated in toy cars, hands on steering wheels and dressed in costumes. Caption. The children of Heinlenville began to bridge the cultures..

Title text reads, “Choosing Candidates: Primaries, Caucuses, and Party Conventions," against a blue background covered in stars.

Closeup of red drawers with gold, round handles in a row. One in the bottom center has a pink and gold label that reads, "S. Santon." Caption. Every medicine used during the Black Plague contained sugar.

Group of teenagers wearing yellow t-shirts shirts exit vans, stepping out onto a field. Caption. Man as narrator. Hi, guys.

Black and white photo of manufacturing equipment. Spanish caption. Surgieron cuestiones de importancia social.

Sepia-toned photo of Clara Barton. Text reads, “Clara Barton.”

Illustration of Sandra Day O'Connor smiling at us while she wears her supreme court judge robe with the American Flag behind her. Text reads, “Sandra Day O’Connor.”

Illustration of Sonia Sotomayor smiling at us as she wears her supreme court justice robe. Text reads, “Sonia Sotomayor.”

Still image from: John F. Kennedy for Kids

Still image from: July Fun Facts

Children in 19th century clothing gather on and around the Statue of Liberty's torch as they wave an American and a French flag. Text reads, "Let Liberty Rise! How America's Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty."

Still image from: Lincoln Memorial

Native American person on horseback rides off into the distant sunset. Caption. We have a right to speak about it.

Woman in a suit stands in shadow with hands clasped at waist and lips parted as she speaks. Caption. As governor, it's up to me to decide.

Park ranger stands with his hands clasped at his waist. An American flag hangs in the background. Caption. Of the signing of the Constitution.

Young woman in tie-dyed shirt with sunglasses on her head smiles and holds a box of cigarettes. Caption. I'm like, "Mr. Choplick, how ya doin'?"

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Dred Scott and "A More or Less Perfect Union"

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Eliza Rone--Enslaved & Emancipated at the Campbell House

Still image from: Living St. Louis: History of the Automobile in St. Louis

Still image from: Living Up to Our Declaration of Independence

Still image from: Make48: North Little Rock, AR / The Innovation Hub

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

Jan E Matzeliger standing next to the image of him on the Black Heritage 29 cent USA stamp.

Still image from: March Fun Facts

Cartoon character standing next to a drawing of an African American man. Caption: I was just reading about Garrett Morgan.

Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles and looks sideways at an easel that displays a drawing of a woman labeled, "Ada Lovelace." Caption. I just learned about mathematician, Ada Lovelace.

Still image from: May Fun Facts

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

Overhead view of a a large assembly line with tan boxes being moved along conveyor belts. Several people with white hard hats and uniforms are working in various stations. Caption. For the milk they were producing on their farms.

John Lewis wears a dark suit and sits in front of black and blue background. His face turns to the side with a perplexed expression. Title bar reads, "Minds that matter. John Lewis, Democratic U, S congressman, Georgia."

Stone ledges stand on both sides of a curved brick wall. Caption. The mission Indians mixed this quicklime with water.

Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala surrounded by trees. Caption. Father Junipero Serra.

Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala overlaid with a map of California. Gold crosses mark locations along the coast of the map. Spanish caption. La misión San Diego.

Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Caption. All who and all who hear the ringing of its bells.

Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Spanish caption. Ésta la distinguida misión de San Gabriel Arcángel.

Closeup of a fountain in front of the arches of the Mission Santa Barbara. Caption. So soundly was this water system engineered that, remarkably.

Black and white illustration of the Mission Santa Barbara. Man in a wide brimmed hat rides a horse and other people populate the foreground. Spanish caption. La misión santa Bárbara.

Still image from: Monstrum: Boo Hag

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

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Bouncing Back From Adversity

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Chief Joseph in Seattle

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Cracking the Case of Crab Louis

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Different Drummers of Our Past

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: 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: 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

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Sea Serpents of the Salish Sea

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's Ramps to Nowhere

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Seattle’s Complicated History With Orcas

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

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Amazing Caytons

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Centralia Tragedy Left a Legacy Still Debated

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Great Swinomish-Husky Race of 1941

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Northwest Outlaw They Couldn’t Capture

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Odd Thing About D.B. Cooper

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Other Curtis Brother

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Palouse Cowboy Who Invented John Wayne

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Pig War

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Shipwreck That Still Shares Its Bounty

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The True History of the “Seattle Freeze”

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Woman Who Sailed Seattle Onto the Silver Screen

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Wyatt Earp

Mount Rushmore is collaged in front of an American flag and a bald eagle. Text reads, "Mount Rushmore for Kids."

Garage with four small planes parked inside.

View of New York City’s Museum of Natural History with a horse-drawn carriage on the road in front of it.

Plaque on the side of the American Writers Museum with text that reads, “one hundred eighty, American Writers Museum.”

Still image from: Museum Access: Best of Transportation

View looking up at a bridge in the middle of Chicago. On the edge of the bridge are the American Flag, Chicago Flag, and Illinois flag flying in the wind.

Bronze statue of a man in uniform holding his belt. On the wall behind him is a star below text that reads, "In honor of those members of the Office of Strategic Services who gave their lives in the service of their country."

2 trains face opposite directions on separate tracks. The train on the left is black and older, probably coal-powered, and the train on the right has thick tan and green horizontal stripes and is more modern.

Still image from: Museum Access: International Spy Museum (Washington, DC)

Outside view of a 2-story green building with a pitched roof and one turret next to a grass tennis court. There's a small bronze statue of a man with an older tennis racquet extended backward next to a small informational sign.

Four different vintage covers for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

Still image from: Museum Access: Morgan Library and Museum (NYC)

Old film projector made of dark metal sits on a table in a dimly lit warehouse room next to cardboard boxes and other artifacts in the background.

Old film camera used on old motion pictures rests on a tabletop in a museum.

Still image from: Museum Access: National Museum of Racing

Old red fire truck that looks like an early car from the 1920s in a museum.

Colorful poster for Ringling Bros Circus has images of Alf T. Ringling, Al Ringling, John Ringling, Chas Ringling, and Otto Ringling. Text reads, “Ringling Bros, Kings of the Circus World"

Still image from: Museum Access: Submarine Force Museum (Groton, CT)

Street view of the entrance of the Adler Planetarium, a domed building made of darker stone with a wide staircase leading up to it. It is surrounded by a building of a triangular shape made of glass.

Still image from: Museum Access: The Empire State Building Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: The Sailing Museum

Still image from: Museum Access: Volo Auto Museum (Volo, IL)

Colorful plaque that has a bald eagle with its wings spread out over an emblem of the American flag that has a Roman helmet with a sword stuck in it. There's a ribbon wrapped around the eagle that says, “duty, honor, country, west power.”

Small silver plane with a front propeller and a sealed cockpit sits outside a large warehouse. Text on the plane reads, "Toulouse Nuts."

Black and white image of 3 men seated across from a woman, all in business attire. Caption. Byck turned to Dwight Anderson, dean of the School of Music.

Sepia-toned closeup portrait of a senior Native American man wearing a headdress. Caption. They all survived off the herds of buffalo that roamed the land.

Closeup of a shiny brown bird-like mask with a red beak and dark eyes. Caption. They also carved elaborate masks made of wood for ceremonies.

Sepia-toned photo of a multi-level stone structure with stairs, walls, and chimneys. Caption. They could be built to stand up to seven stories high.

Interior of hut with wood poles lashed together in a grid, forming the frame for the walls and ceiling. Caption. A long house was much like an apartment house.

Still image from: Nick News: Kids, Immigration, and Equality

Still image from: No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin

Still image from: November Fun Facts

Still image from: Oberlin: A Village Rooted in Freedom

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

Still image from: October Fun Facts

Black and white photo of group of people working a harvest, some carrying crates and others standing on ladders leaning on trees.

Black people in period costumes gather around a fire pit in the grass with log cabins in background. Caption. And they had no personal freedoms at all.

Still image from: Origin of Everything: 6 Surprising Facts About the 19th Amendment

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Are Museum Collections Ethical?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Get a Holiday?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism

Still image from: Origin of Everything: The 2nd Amendment Explained

Still image from: Origin of Everything: The History of Socialism in America

Still image from: Origin of Everything: What If There Were No Taxes?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Racial Passing?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Did We Plant a Flag on the Moon?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do People Have Pets?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Hobbies?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Have Political Parties?

Close-up side-angle view of a small three-ring binder full of pages of notes.

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.

Still image from: Past Present: Giving Stories New Life With Lesa Cline Ransome ("Of Walden Pond")

Bearded middle-aged man in a brick-walled room with large steel frame windows. Caption. Acting as a sort of global policeman.

Black and white photo of a man and woman in pilot uniforms standing next to a building. Caption. Such as W, A, S, P, S. Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Blackbeard (Episode 3)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Bonnet (Episode 4)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Effects on Economy (Episode 6)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Female Pirates (Episode 5)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Golden Age Ends (Episode 7)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: History (Episode 1)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Lost Shipwrecks (Episode 8)

Still image from: Pirates of the Carolinas: Rules (Episode 2)

Still image from: Placed-Based Local History Projects: Inspiring Deeper Understanding

Still image from: Placed-Based Local History Projects: Middle School Place-Based History Project and Community Impact

Black and white illustration of 3 figures standing around a wooden pole with their arms around one another. Other figures dance in a circle around them. Caption. Chief Powhatan decided he still loved his daughter.

Text framed by a white box on blue background with fading white stars reads, "Political Parties and Their Candidates." Earth icon at bottom reads, "Kid Explorer."

United States Constitution in original form. On screen is the text of the First Amendment to the Constitution written in black.

Computer graphic of the state of Ohio and a scroll that reads, "Ohio's First Constitution 1803." In the background on the left is a detailed map of Ohio, and on the right is a photo of the Ohio capitol building above the seal of the governor of Ohio.

2 black and white photos. The left photo shows the Ohio Statehouse, which is domed and has many pillars around the perimeter. The right photo shows the Greek Revival Building, which has a circular second story and many pillars around the perimeter.

Screenshot of Camp David, Maryland from Google Earth. A computer graphic of a red push pin is dropped over the location.

Several privacy booths used for voting in U, S elections are lined up. They have American flags with the word "vote" in blue painted on them. Caption. Our most important right as citizens.

Text framed by a white box on a blue background with fading white stars reads, "Executive Branch. What's Inside. “Earth icon at bottom reads, "Kid Explorer."

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Articles of Confederation

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Brutus 1

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Declaration of Independence

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Federalist 78

Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: U.S. Constitution

The deck of an underwater ship covered in debris and rusted metal. Caption: the wreckage of the Titanic rests on the seafloor,

Black and white photo of a white building with a sign that reads L. Kaufman, Cheap Cash Store. Caption. They had all of these informal financial relationships

Still image from: Read Along With Me Picture Books: Rock Legends Who Changed the World

Large metal object hangs from a beamed structure fixed to the ocean floor. Boats pass by in the background.

Reenactment of Roanoke Island Colony life. 2 men in elegant fifteen nineties clothing walk past an indigenous person speaking to a settler. Caption. Thus, Lord Grenville returned to England for supplies.

Still image from: Rock the Park: National Parks of New York Harbor

Still image from: Rock the Park: Washington, D.C.

Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Boycotts

Still image from: September Fun Facts

Color illustration of diverse children in an art gallery looking up at framed portraits of 13 historical American women.

Painting of 1800s frontiersmen shooting at Native Americans. Caption. He then, successfully, led his warriors.

Still image from: Snow Dogs: Into the Wild

Painting of a man looking up as he crouches by a rock at the edge of a body of water. Another man pulls a boat full of people to shore in the background. Title bar reads, "Religious freedom." Caption. In search of religious freedom.

Blurry black and white photo of a procession of women wearing long black dresses and headscarves. Spanish caption. En los 1840, imigrantes irlandeses.

Woman with gray hair wearing a green shirt talking. White text on bottom of screen reads, "Barbara Ketcham Wheaton. Culinary historian, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University." Caption. Due to political disruption in Asia.

Young men in robes face away from camera and write on a small chalkboard. Caption. Man as narrator. Way, way, way back, the ancient Greeks.

Title card on striated prismatic background reads, "The making of the president." Caption. The making of the president.

Medium shot of a smiling middle aged man wearing glasses. Caption. Looking at the branch's creation might help us understand.

Closeup of the front of the Supreme Court building. Statues and stairs lead to the west entry door of the building. A series of columns support the building's pediment. Text on image reads, "Thanks to the Civil Rights Act."

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: A.P. Giannini

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: Annie Malone

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: Frank Woolworth

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: Fred Harvey

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: Henry Kaiser

Still image from: Steve Forbes on Achievement: Herbert Hoover

Closeup of a woman looking directly at camera as she smiles broadly. Behind her is a background that appears to be a glassed-in entry to a school hallway. Caption. As the Court ruled in 1986.

Man with white hair and a beard wearing a red shirt and navy jacket talks while standing on the deck of a wooden ship. Several brown ropes and open ocean are in the background. Caption. By the early fifteen hundreds, there were shops that sold coffee.

Closeup of Black person wearing glasses and looking downward. Caption. Were shocking.

English soldiers march through the fog, moving towards a distant blaze. Caption. Mad Anthony's troops indiscriminately destroy.