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Index of EyeWitness Accounts - From the Ancient World through the 20th Century
Photo Of The Week- A freeze frame of time.
SnapShots - Photographic Gateways to History: World War I, America in the 20s, the Great Depression.
Voices of the 20th Century- sounds from the past.
History in Motion - film clips from the past.

Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.
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Making a Living. . .

Building the Brooklyn Bridge Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1871
"...a dreadful pain shot through both my ears." Nothing like it had ever been attempted before: join a "sandhog" working below the East River

Early HollywoodMaking Movies, 1920
"Mr. Griffith shouted: 'Billy, move in! Get that face! That face - get that face!'" Film legend Lillian Gish describes how movies were made in Hollywood's early days..

  Photo of the Week:
Chosing Death Over SurrenderThe Price of War, 1944
A young boy helps a wounded compainion in war-torn Naples, Italy.


Including:
U-Boat Attack, 1917
Captured German footage of one of its submarines in action during World War I.

The Hindenburg Explodes, 1937
The great German airship bursts into flames as it attempts to land at Lakehurst, NJ.

The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor, 1941
Captured Japanese footage taken from their aircraft during the attack.

Many More >>>
  It Happened This Month:
Slave ShipAboard a Slave Ship, 1829
"The slaves were all inclosed under grated hatchways between decks. The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs..." A minister recounts his experience of boarding a slave ship stopped off the coast of Africa.

The Sack of Lawrence, Kansas, 1856
"The newspaper offices were the first objects of attack." Five years before the attack on Fort Sumter, the opening shots of America's Civil War are fired in a small Kansas town.

CHARLES LindberghLindbergh flies the Atlantic, 1927
"I circled again and closing the throttle as the plane passed within a few feet of the boat I shouted, 'Which way is Ireland?' " The "Lone Eagle" describes his historic flight.

  Notable Quote:

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Including:
Iwo Jima, 1945
The first wave attacks the beach in one of WWII's costliest battles.

Theodore Roosevelt 1912
The "Bull Moose" candidate speaks during his unsuccessful campaign for President.

Charles Lindbergh, 1927
The "Lone Eagle" speaks after his historic flight

Many More >>>
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