Alexander defeats the Persians, Destruction of PompeiiThe Crusades, The Black Death...Salem Witch TrialsWriting the Declaration of Independence, Battle of Lexington...Escape from slavery, Death of President Garfield..Battle of Gettysburg, Death of Lincoln...Custer's Last Stand, The Death of Billy the Kid...San Francisco Earthquake, Sinking of the Titanic...
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 EyeWitness Accounts (• = Interactive)
  • Making an Ancient Egyptian Mummy
  • The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC
  • Everday Life in Ancient Greece
  • The Suicide of Socrates, 399 BC
  • Alexander Defeats the Persians, 331 BC
  • The Death of Alexander the Great, 323 BC
  • The Ideal Physician, 320 BC
  • How to Keep a Slave in Ancient Rome, 170 BC
  • The Druids, 54 BC
  • Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC
  • The Assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 BC
  • A Portrait of Julius Caesar
  • Cleopatra Seduces Antony, 41 BC
  • Gladiators, 50 AD
  • The Burning of Rome, 64 AD
  • Nero Persecutes the Christians, 64 AD
  • The Romans Destroy the Temple at Jerusalem, 70 AD
  • Rome Celebrates the Vanquishing of the Jews, 71 AD
  • The Grandeur of Rome,75 AD
  • The Destruction of Pompeii, 79 AD
  • The Death of a Martyr, 203 AD
  • What to do with the Christians? 112 AD
  • The Fall of Rome
  • Dining with Attila the Hun, 448 AD
  • Life in a Christian Monastery, ca. 585
  • The Vikings Discover America, ca. 1000
  • Invasion Of England, 1066
  • The Crusaders Capture Jerusalem, 1099
  • The Murder Of Thomas Becket, 1170
  • Anarchy in 12th Century England
  • Richard The Lionheart Massacres The Saracens, 1191
  • The Kublai Khan in Battle, 1287
  • A Medieval Murder, 1300
  • The Black Death, 1348
  • The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349
  • The Battle of Agincourt, 1415
  • The Sack of Constantinople, 1453
  • Columbus Discovers America, 1492
  • America Sends Syphilis to Europe, 1493
  • The Death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503
  • Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel
  • The Death of Magellan, 1521
  • An Audience with Queen Mary I, 1557
  • The Spanish Massacre the French in Florida, 1565
  • Brought Before the Inquisition, 1573
  • The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587
  • Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England
  • Torture in the Tower of London, 1597
  • An Audience with Queen Elizabeth, 1597
  • Captain John Smith is Saved by Pocahontas, 1608
  • Aboard the Mayflower, 1620
  • The First Thanksgiving, 1621
  • The Price of Adultery in Puritan Massachusetts, 1641
  • Living Amoung the Mohawks, 1644
  • The Execution of Charles I, 1649
  • The Great Fire of London, 1666
  • Inside the Court of Louis XIV, 1671
  • New York City, 1679
  • The Salem Witch Trials
  • Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11
  • A London Hanging, 1726
  • George Washington's Rules of Good Behavior, 1746
  • Passage to America, 1750
  • Captured by Indians, 1758
  • Courtship in New England, 1760
  • Daniel Boone Opens Up the West, 1769-71
  • The Boston Massacre, 1770
  • The Boston Tea Party, 1773
  • Getting Sick, 1774
  • Battle at Lexington Green, 1775
  • Battle at Lexington Green: The British Perspective 1775
  • Ethan Allen Captures Fort Ticonderoga, 1775
  • Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776
  • The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776
  • Washington Crosses the Delaware, 1776
  • The Continental Army at Valley Forge, 1777
  • "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!", 1779
  • The British Surrender at Yorktown, 1781
  • Thomas Jefferson's Advice to his Daughter, 1783
  • Slave Trade: the African Connection, 1788
  • The Inauguration of George Washington, 1789
  • Building America, 1789
  • The Beginning of the French Revolution, 1789
  • The Execution Of Louis XVI, 1793
  • Joining the British Navy, 1793
  • Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793
  • The Death of George Washington, 1799
  • Washington, D.C., 1800
  • President Jefferson in the White House
  • A Duel At Dawn, 1804
  • The Death of Lord Nelson, 1805
  • Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807
  • "Shanghaied", 1811
  • "Old Ironsides" Earns its Name, 1812
  • The British Burn Washington, 1814
  • Dolley Madison Flees the White House, 1814
  • The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
  • The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
  • Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815
  • The Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson, 1829
  • Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
  • America's First Steam Locomotive, 1830
  • A Portrait of America, 1830
  • Traveling the National Road, 1833
  • A Slave's Life
  • "Remember the Alamo!," 1836
  • Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836
  • Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837
  • Escape From Slavery, 1838
  • A Flogging at Sea, 1839
  • P.T. Barnum Discovers "Tom Thumb," 1842
  • Living among the Shakers, 1843
  • Visit to the Red Light District, 1843
  • Buffalo Hunt, 1846
  • The Irish Potato Famine, 1847
  • The Tragic Fate of the Donner Party, 1847
  • California Gold Rush, 1849
  • Aboard a Whaling Ship, 1850
  • Vigilante Justice, 1851
  • Entering the Forbidden City of Mecca, 1853
  • Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
  • Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854
  • Return of a Fugitive Slave, 1854
  • Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855
  • Andrew Carnegie Becomes a Capitalist, 1856
  • The Sack of Lawrence, Kansas, 1856
  • Slave Auction, 1859
  • Good Manners for Young Ladies, 1859
  • John Brown's Raid, 1859
  • John Brown Defends His Raid, 1859
  • Fort Sumter, the First Shot of the Civil War, 1861
  • Views of President Lincoln, 1861
  • An Early Casualty of the Civil War, 1861
  • Pony Express Rider, 1861
  • Riding The Overland Stage, 1861
  • First Battle of Bull Run, 1861
  • Battle of the Ironclads, 1862
  • The Battle of Shiloh, 1862
  • Battlefield Tragedy, 1862
  • Carnage At Antietam, 1862
  • President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
  • Bread Riot in Richmond, 1863
  • The Battle Of Gettysburg, 1863
  • Pickett's Charge, 1863
  • Lee's Retreat From Gettysburg, 1863
  • William Quantrill Raids Lawrence, Kansas, 1863
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863
  • Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864
  • Lincoln Enters Richmond, 1865
  • Surrender At Appomattox, 1865
  • President Lincoln is Shot, 1865
  • The Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865
  • The Death Of John Wilkes Booth, 1865
  • The Civil War Ends, 1865
  • The South in Defeat, 1865
  • Crossing The Plains, 1865
  • The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
  • Ku Klux Klan, 1868
  • Completing the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
  • Shoot Out with Wild Bill Hickok, 1869
  • Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871
  • Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1871
  • Buffalo Bill Entertains a Russian Grand Duke, 1872
  • Battle With The Apache, 1872
  • Captured by the Arapaho, 1875
  • The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875
  • Encounter with the Texas Rangers, 1876
  • The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, 1876
  • Traveling on an Emigrant Train, 1879
  • The Death Of Billy The Kid, 1881
  • The Death Of President Garfield, 1881
  • A Portrait of Thomas Edison
  • A Cowboy in Dodge City, 1882
  • Ranchers and Farmers Collide in Nebraska, 1884
  • College Football, 1884
  • Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890
  • Opulence in the Gilded Age, 1890
  • Death of a Child, 1890
  • The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892
  • Corbett Knocks Out Sullivan, 1892
  • The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1893
  • Hobo, 1894: Hard Times in America
  • Leaving Home for the "Promised Land", 1894
  • America's First Automobile Race, 1895
  • First to Sail Alone Around the World, 1895-98
  • The United States Declares War on Spain, 1898
  • The Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Rob a Train, 1899
  • Prisoner of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900
  • The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
  • Farm Wife, 1900
  • The Death of Queen Victoria, 1901
  • The Assassination of President William McKinley, 1901
  • The Roosevelts Move Into the White House, 1901
  • Riding a Rural Free Delivery Route, 1903
  • The Wright Brothers' 1st Flight, 1903
  • The Hanging of Tom Horn, 1903
  • Immigrating to America, 1905
  • San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
  • Early Adventures With The Automobile
  • The Gibson Girl
  • Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908
  • A Walk with President Roosevelt, 1908
  • Children At Work, 1908-1912
  • On Safari, 1909
  • Birth of the Hollywood Cowboy, 1911
  • Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
  • First Woman to Fly the English Channel, 1912
  • Doomed Expedition to the South Pole, 1912
  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914
  • The German Army Marches through Brussels, 1914
  • The Beginning of Air Warfare, 1914
  • Christmas in the Trenches, 1914
  • Battle At Gallipoli, 1915
  • The Birth of the Fighter Plane, 1915
  • The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
  • Massacre of the Armenians, 1915
  • The Battle of Jutland, 1916
  • A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
  • The Battlefield Debut of the Tank, 1916
  • In the American Ambulance Field Service, 1916
  • U-boat Attack, 1916
  • Gas Attack, 1916
  • Death of a Zeppelin, 1916
  • The Red Baron Scores Two Victories, 1917
  • Torpedoed! 1917
  • America Declares War on Germany, 1917
  • The Execution of Mata Hari, 1917
  • The Bolsheviks Storm the Winter Palace, 1917
  • Death Of An Air Ace, 1918
  • The Beginning of the End of World War I, 1918
  • The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918
  • Lawrence of Arabia, 1918
  • Armistice, 1918
  • Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
  • President Wilson Suffers a Stroke, 1919
  • Making Movies, 1920
  • The Unknown Soldier Returns Home
  • Entering King Tut's Tomb, 1922
  • Calvin Coolidge is Sworn in as President, 1923
  • Adolph Hitler Attempts a Coup, 1923
  • Air Conditioning Goes to the Movies, 1925
  • Prohibition, 1927
  • Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927
  • Babe Ruth Hits His 60th Home Run, 1927
  • The Wall Street Crash, 1929
  • The Bonus Army Invades Washington, D.C., 1932
  • The Reichstag Fire, 1933
  • Shoot-Out with Bonnie and Clyde, 1933
  • Migrant Mother, 1936
  • The Bombing of Guernica, 1937
  • The Rape of Nanking, 1937
  • Dining with the King and Queen of England, 1938
  • The Beginning of World War II, 1939
  • London Goes to War, 1939
  • Blitzkrieg, 1940
  • Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
  • France Surrenders, 1940
  • Hitler Tours Paris, 1940
  • France in Defeat, 1940
  • The Battle of Britain, 1940
  • The London Blitz, 1940
  • The Nazi Occupation Of Poland
  • The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944
  • Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941
  • Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 - the Japanese View
  • Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 - the White House Reaction
  • The Doolittle Raid, 1942
  • The Bataan Death March, 1942
  • The Battle of Midway, 1942
  • Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942
  • Reconnaissance Patrol, 1943
  • Bombling Raid on Ploesti, 1943
  • The Bloody Battle of Tarawa, 1943
  • A Battlefield Death, 1944
  • A GI's Trip to London, 1944
  • Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944
  • Shot Down Over France, 1944
  • "Loose Lips Sink Ships", 1944
  • Invasion of Normandy, 1944: On the Beach
  • Invasion of Normandy, 1944: A Civilian's View
  • The Liberation of Paris, 1944
  • America's Front Line Soldier, 1944
  • Charles Lindbergh in Combat, 1944
  • Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944
  • The Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944
  • General Patton Interrogates a SS General, 1944
  • Kamikaze Attack, 1944
  • Sunk by Submarine, 1944
  • Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945
  • Capturing the Bridge at Remagen, 1945
  • The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945
  • The Death of President Franklin Roosevelt, 1945
  • The Battle of Berlin, 1945
  • The War Ends in Europe, 1945
  • Berlin in Defeat, 1945
  • London Celebrates VE Day, 1945
  • Germany in Defeat, 1945
  • The 1st Atomic Blast, 1945
  • The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, 1945
  • The Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945
  • Thoughts Of A President, 1945
  • Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball's Color Barrier, 1945
  • The Sentencing and Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 1946
  • The Assassination of Gandhi, 1948
  • The Russians Discover a Spy Tunnel in Berlin, 1956
  • The Hungarian Revolution, 1956
  • Images Of War 1918-1971
  • The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963
  • Apollo 8: First Voyage to the Moon, 1968
  • President Nixon Meets Elvis,1970
  • Payoff to the Vice President, 1971
  • President Nixon Leaves the White House, 1974
  •  Voices Of The 20th Century
    Requires

  • Fire Fight, 1899
  • Eugene V. Debs, 1904
  • Expedition to the North Pole, 1909
  • Theodore Roosevelt 1912
  • Charles Lindbergh, 1927
  • Senator Huey Long, 1935
  • Explosion of the Hindenburg, 1937
  • Great Britain declares war against Germany, 1939
  • Gas Rationing, 1942
  • D-Day, 1944
  • Tokyo Rose 1944
  • Franklin Roosevelt 1944
  • Invasion of Iwo Jima, 1945
  • FDR dies, 1945
  • Lord Haw-Haw's last broadcast, 1945
  • Germany Surrenders, 1945
  • Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, 1945
  •  SnapShots - gateways to history
  • The "Promised Land", 1912
  •     Immigration at the Turn of the Century
        City Life
        A Tragic Fire

  • America in World War I
  •     America in the Great War
        Sinking of the Lusitania
        America Declares War
        Sabotage at Home
        Posters at War
        Armistice

  • America in the 1920s
  •     The Changing World of Work
        Advertising in the 20s
        Women Win the Vote
        Prohibition
        The Wall Street Crash

  • America in the 1930s
  •     The Great Depression
        The Dust Bowl
        Public Enemy #1 - John Dillinger
        Bonus Army
     History in Motion - film clips from the past
  • The Great Train Robbery, 1903 part 1
  • The Great Train Robbery, 1903 part 2
  • The Streets of New York City, 1916
  • Assembling the Ford Model T, 1916
  • Induction Parade, 1917
  • U-boat Attack, 1917
  • Tanks, 1918
  • Escape from an Observation Balloon, 1918
  • Flying Ace, 1918
  • Advancing to the Front, 1918
  • Combat, 1918
  • Bond Rally, 1918
  • Armistice, 1918
  • The Dust Bowl, 1936
  • The Hindenburg Arrives Over New York City, 1937
  • The Hindenburg Explodes, 1937
  • The Japanese Launch Their Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
  • The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor, 1941
  • World War II - The Home Front
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