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Digital collage. Portrait of George Washington next to a map of the U, S with some eastern states shaded purple. Thought bubble reads, "I'm the president and I set lots of precedents!" Caption. As our first president, he established many precedents.

Digital collage. Superimposed heads of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson on the bodies of 2 men with arms around each other. Text overlay reads, "B, F, Fs 4 eva." Caption. His best friend was Thomas Jefferson.

Digital collage with James Monroe wrapped in an American flag and a number 1 foam hand that reads, "U, S, A." Black and white image of crowd waving American flags in background. Caption. His presidency was called the Era of Good Feelings.

Digital collage. John Adams' head superimposed on Christmas elf's body standing in front of Massachusetts State House. Speech bubble reads, "Go Sawks!" Caption. Female as narrator. John Adams was a grumpy, frumpy principled lawyer from Boston.

Painting of Thomas Jefferson with an exaggerated head. He stands in a room filled with men, some surrounding a table with books and papers. Speech bubble reads, "Take that King George!" Caption. Tom took the lead on the Declaration of Independence.

Black and white frame of A. Philip Randolph, a civil-rights activist. Caption. Of a mighty corporation such as the Pullman Company was.

Black and white frame of 2 men and a woman in 1800's Western clothes in a saloon. Caption. Likely Ryker was shooting' off his mouth.

Group of actors wearing Civil War-era costumes stand and watch a figure who resembles Abraham Lincoln. Caption. Elected him to the state legislature.

Man dressed as Abraham Lincoln stands sideways in front of a sunlit window, looking down at a small book. Framed portrait hangs on wall next to window.

Still image from: Alexander Graham Bell

Man wearing a pharaoh costume resembling Alexander the Great, person bowing behind him. Caption. Alexander proclaimed pharaoh.

Photo and text overlay collage with portraits of Nate and Andy Warhol, with a group of paparazzi with cameras pointing at Warhol. The background is a chalkboard list of things Warhol loved, such as Hollywood, Ice Cream, and Crazy Wigs.

Sepia-toned photo of Abraham Lincoln with white script across the image that reads, "Return their allegiance to the Union." Caption. To the Union.

Barbara Jordan standing in a room full of Black women. She smiles and looks over at a person extending their hand. Caption. In the United States House of Representatives.

Woman faces camera with right hand signing. Caption. I realized that being deaf is part of who I am.

Black and white portrait painting of a young Davy Crockett. Caption. Davy Crockett had become an American legend.

Illustration of the carbon cycle: Plants intake CO2, herbivores (giraffe) eat plants, carnivores (lion) eat herbivores, carnivores release CO2, and then plants absorb CO2. Caption: releases carbon dioxide back into the air.

A roughly tear-drop shaped object with a thin outer layer, a wider middle layer, and a central space. Caption: A gastrula is an embryo made of three cell layers.

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Booker T. Washington

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Frederick Douglass

Still image from: Black American World Changers: George Washington Carver

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Harriet Tubman

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Jackie Robinson

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Maya Angelou

Still image from: Black American World Changers: Rosa Parks

Low shot of a quarterback holding a football and running back across the field, looking out over his shoulder. Caption. The crossover type of drop back is the quickest.

Black and white photo of Al Capone walking away from a black car. Caption. Capone was arrested many times during his heyday.

Animation of ancient buildings silhouetted against an amber sky. Caption. At the end of October, Alexander takes Babylon.

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Dr. Benjamin Mays

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: King Hagler--Catawba Indian Chief

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Modjeska Monteith Simkins

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Ronald McNair

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Septima Poinsette Clark

Child crouches down over a basket of fruit. Text below reads, Cesar's Early Life.

Sweaty basketball player speaks into the camera. Behind him, a court and basketball hoop. Caption. When your offensive man comes into you to get open.

Senior Native American wearing a feather headdress looks directly at camera. Caption. These were portraits like you might see of Roman emperors.

Generally spherical white coral consisting of countless individual arm segments on the ocean floor. Caption: and the solution of their rescue might be within.

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

Middle-aged man in business attire in an office setting. He faces camera and uses sign language, holding 1 fist up facing inward. Caption. School aged Deaf youth.

Video screen shows a woman with blonde straight hair looking out and using sign language, touching a closed fist with thumb up to the top of the other hand. Text on image reads, "Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood, California."

Still image from: Desmond Doss: The Medic Who Fought a War Without a Weapon

Still image from: DNA

Senior man standing on a field and holding a football in one hand. Caption. Okay. Good looking. That's the way to come off the ball.

Still image from: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Mother reads with her 3 children on a couch in a living room setting. Caption. His mother taught him and his sister.

Still image from: Dr. Seuss for Kids

Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: Cicada Mania

An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.

2 men face off on the football field. Caption. Narrator. Watch the receiver as your run with him in the throwing lane.

Black and white side portrait photo of Eva Peron. Caption. Eva was left behind in Buenos Aires.

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Charles Dickens

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Émile Zola

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Ernest Hemingway

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Eliot

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Orwell

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Henrik Ibsen

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of James Joyce

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jane Austen

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Keats

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Steinbeck

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jonathan Swift

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Mark Twain

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Virginia Woolf

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walt Whitman

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Walter Scott

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Blake

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Faulkner

Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Giacomo Puccini

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Johann Sebastian Bach

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Johannes Brahms

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Ludwig van Beethoven

Still image from: Famous Composers: The Life and Work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Closeup of a stone archway topped with a cross. A weathered stone wall looms in the background. Caption. As the father and founder of California.

Black poet, Margaret Walker, writing on a chalkboard. Caption. Narrator. Walker began teaching in 1942 after receiving.

Girl seated next to a small window and talking to a teenage boy. Caption. How long have you been keeping a diary?

Color illustration of Frida Kahlo holding a paintbrush and palette while surrounded by animals. Title card reads, "Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos.

Actors wearing Continental Army costumes hold rifles and stand at attention. Caption. They served for only a three-month period.

Painting of 6 men raising clubs and bayonets to attack another man, while a soldier in a blue coat and black hat looks on. A building is on fire in the background. Caption. Washington used force to disperse the angry farmers.

Still image from: George Washington

Still image from: George Washington Carver

Closeup of woman looks to the left and stands in open-sided, thatched roof dwelling.

Cartoon. A man wearing a jacket with popped collar and purple pants seated on a red couch in a kitschy art studio space. There are several paintings, a lava lamp, and lights winding up a column. Caption. I'm Andy, Andy Warhol.

Cartoon. A dark haired man wearing a jacket, vest, trousers, and wide-brimmed hat. He stands in front of an easel with mountains painted in an impressionist style in the background. Caption. Hello, I'm Claude Monet.

Cartoon. A man wearing a purple jacket and pink cravat stands on stage with a ballerina posing in the background. Next to him, an easel with a painting of a ballerina. Caption. I'm Edgar Degas, 1 of the world's greatest artists.

Cartoon. A thin man with a long beard and nose wearing a light green floppy hat and tunic. He's standing on a hilly landscape in the countryside. Caption. Hi, there! I'm Leonardo da Vinci.

Cartoon. A woman wearing a pink hat and holding a paintbrush and palette stands in a room with several paintings on easels. Caption. Soon I was painting in a whole new style.

Cartoon. Man wearing a multi-colored tunic, red tights, and brown boots stands on scaffolding holding a hammer and chisel. Behind him, an image of the top portion of the famous David statue. Caption. Hello, I am Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Cartoon. Actual image of the top of the Emancipation Proclamation in color, showing a portrait of Lincoln with a laurel leaf border and 2 American flags waving in the breeze. Caption. January 1, 1863, I sent out the Emancipation Proclamation.

Painting. Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware showing Washington in a rowboat with several men. He's looking out ahead across the water with an American flag waving in the wind behind him. Caption. That was the leader I was willing to be.

Cartoon. A gray-haired man wearing formal colonial clothing holds up a finger, pointing at an actual portrait painting of President John Adams. Caption. I played an important role in the American Revolution.

Black and white illustration of Jefferson and 4 others gathered around a small table looking at a handwritten document. Caption. And they chose me to write a Declaration of Independence.

Black and white frame of a WW2 US Army Japanese American soldier standing below a crouching White US Army soldier. Caption. I want to see him the minute he gets back.

Closeup of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting. A woman and man with stern facial expressions look outward.

Black woman faces away from camera and looks over her right shoulder within a forested setting. Caption. The journey for Harriet was long and hard.

Black and white frame of slave men, women and children walking on a dirt path. Caption. To lead nearly 300 slaves to freedom.

Portrait painting of Liliuokalani wearing a black gown and several pieces of jewelry. She has a soft physique, medium-brown skin and dark features.

Young Helen Keller, one arm wrapped around an adult woman's shoulder, the other reaching out to hold her hand.

Aerial shot of 2 people on the ground with arms and legs akimbo, illuminated by a blue light. Caption. Man, as Hemingway. There are no heroes in this war.

Still image from: Hidden Figures: Meet the Computers

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)

Color photo of Adolf Hitler standing in a black convertible raising one hand in a seig heil a large crowd of people in the background.

Still image from: I Am Ruby Bridges

Color illustration. Girl dressed in blue with red ringlets, holding a doll. Caption. When Esther was 8, she watched her mother.

King Jordan stands in front of several microphones with a crowd of people behind him. Caption. I, King Jordan became the first deaf president.

Black and white photo of a woman playing the piano while looking at sheet music. A man stands by watching her play. Caption. Though he declared she delighted in tormenting him.

Still image from: Influential Women: Amelia Earhart

Still image from: Influential Women: Clara Barton

Still image from: Influential Women: Madam C.J. Walker

Still image from: Influential Women: Mae Jemison

Still image from: Influential Women: Raye Montague

Still image from: Influential Women: Ruby Bridges

Still image from: Influential Women: Sacagawea

Still image from: Influential Women: Sandra Day O'Connor

Still image from: Influential Women: Sonia Sotomayor

Wide shot of a basketball court with offense and defense in play on one side of the court. Caption. If I wanted to make this pass here.

A scale shows world population. 2 billion people will be added by 20 50 to the 7 billion at present. A number, 2 X, is shown over the food crops, wheat and corn.

Black and white photo shows John Pierpont Morgan walking and talking with a young man. Caption. Narrator. Morgan knew he had been beaten, but he wasn't about to give up.

A side view of a man holding a part of a vehicle engine. Caption. Refiérase a joha de información y coloque las otras medidas.

Color illustration of a girl seated by a tree with sheep in the background. Caption. One summer day when Joan was 13 years old.

Black and white frame of three men in lab coats at a laboratory table. Caption. Who had developed a vaccine that conquered poliomyelitis.

Still image from: Joseph Stalin: Leader of the Soviet Union (1878-1953)

Young Langston Hughes wearing a plaid shirt, orange paisley tie, and brown suspenders looks out with a neutral expression.

Still image from: Lauri Törni: The Soldier of Three Armies

Two men in suits and cowboy hats turn toward one another as they ride horses through a verdant landscape. Caption. Banks all across Missouri and Kentucky were robbed.

Blurry color illustration of 3 Native Americans riding horses. Caption. The Native Americans fought to hold onto their lands.

Black and white closeup of Tolstoy hunched over a table, writing. Caption. Tolstoy spent the last few years of his life in Yasnaya Polyana.

Still image from: Lewis and Clark for Kids

Watercolor illustration of a man with a red bandana covering the bottom half of his face. Shadowy gray background. Caption. He wore a red handkerchief.

A black and white image of Margaret Mead looking down at an indigenous Samoan man.

Black and white image of Gandhi exiting a building, surrounded by onlookers. Caption. During the same visit, she met Gandhi.

Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev looking just off camera. Caption. And that would be the end of any reform in the country.

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."

Illustration of a girl looking over a wrought iron handrail out onto a cityscape. Caption: Once upon a time she was a little girl named Alice

Plastic 3D color-coded model of the human brain. Caption: The brain's maximum potential?

Still image from: Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain--The Thinking and Social Brain

Artist Norman Rockwell painting a scene of 2 women, seated, with child leaning on table in foreground. Caption. 520 magazine covers in his 84 years.

Oliver and Wilber Wright are testing their flight in the open sands. Caption: on the sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Black and white photo of a horse-drawn carriage that reads, Freedmen's Hospital Ambulance. A man poses behind the carriage. Caption. Was the only black hospital in the United States.

3 Saudi royal men stand in front of tanks. Two other Saudi men sit atop tanks. Caption. Osama was at odds with the Saudi royals.

President Obama at a press briefing, standing in the hallway of the White House before a microphone and podium. Caption. The United States launched a targeted operation.

Still image from: Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome ("Game Changers")

Still image from: Past Present: Giving Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome-- "Finding Langston"

Color illustration of Paul Revere holding a hammer and examining a bowl in a silversmith shop. Caption. Paul learned the silversmith trade.

Closeup of a moon with passing clouds in front. Caption. Under cover of night, on April 18, 1775.

Black and white photo of an older Pablo Picasso holding a paintbrush in front of a sculpture resting on a pedestal.

Black and white frame depicts a heavyset man playing Henry VIII. He wears a broad-shouldered robe with round, pleated upper sleeves. Caption. Well, smile while you may.

Black and white portrait photograph of Ralph Bunche. Caption. He remains an enigma in American and world history.

Young Ralph Ellison sits by a window, looking out and away from a typewriter positioned in front of him.

2 football players face off at the line of scrimmage, bending their knees and looking at each other's eyes. Caption. Narrator. For the swim move, Reggie will line up as the left end.

Color portrait of Rembrandt's face. Head covered by a soft cap. Eyes look sideways and mouth is closed with mustaches above and under the lip.

Black and white portrait of a young Robert Frost holding a hand against his cheek with 1 finger raised to his temple.

2 football players running next to each other on a field. 1 reaches an arm out, the other grabs the first man at the elbow. Caption. You must take him to block for the ball carrier.

A desert hill. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 1)

Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 2)

Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 3)

Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 4)

Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 5)

Diagram of the upper body of a human exposing the skeleton, circulatory system, and lungs. Caption: The breastbone protects the heart and lungs.

Black and white frame shows a crowd of people at a nightclub. In the foreground, 2 women are seated at a bar table. Caption. No, truly, Miss Gray.

Illustration of a child with his face turned up to the snow falling from the sky. Caption: Willie Bentley's happiest days were snowstorm days.

Man watches a video of 2 men standing next to each other in business suits. Caption. And they needed Sue's help to read lips.

Sepia toned photo of a senior Black man and 4 women from mid-1990s. Caption. My grandmother is a very territorial woman.

Illustration of a child playing on a city street, imagining that he is flying the rocket in his hand. Caption: His imagination took him out of his neighborhood.

Still image from: StoryMakers: Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Blonde and tanned Sylvia Plath smiling and posing on a white sandy beach in a white bathing suit .

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2003)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2009)

Still image from: The 6-Year-Old Red Army Lieutenant of WW2 (Youngest Soldier of the War)

Back of someone's upper body. Caption: You see, Bill Gibson was a -- well, a dreamer.

Map centered on the island of Borneo. Caption: I was the only one working on an area near Borneo,

Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.

World globe stopped on the Atlantic Ocean, showing Africa, and a section of North and South America. Caption. But the world is very big and life very short.

Black and white frame of 2 men, 1 dressed as a farmhand and the other in a suit, bow tie and cap. Caption. I guess.

Black and white frame of Jackie Robinson at bat mid warm-up swing. Caption. Come on, Jackie boy, get a hold of one!

Young woman stands in shadows next to a projected image entitled, The End of the Old Testament. Caption. It was not uncommon for birthdays to be recorded down.

Blood cells flowing through a vein. Spanish captions.

Woman leans down towards a girl who is seated on the floor next to a labrador retriever. Caption. How do I make her understand?

Storybook cover with a colorful illustration of 2 students holding books and walking; 1 of the students has white hair and glasses. Title reads, "The Oldest Student. How Mary Walker Learned to Read."

Man standing at chalk board in front of class. Caption: George's discoveries brought so many benefits to mankind

Movie frame shows a lion rearing up on its hind legs in the foreground, a young woman pulling another person towards a door, lion tamer holding a weapon and seated on a beam above. Caption. I'm so sorry, dear.

Still image from: The President That Kept Reading a Speech After Being Shot

Side view of a simple tan colored church with white framed windows and a steeple. Caption. Her teaching took her to Texas.