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- Speech to the Future
- Speaking into Thomas Edison's new fangled machine, the phonograph, P.T. Barnum records a message which (as he acknowledges in the ... more»
- Category: Exploration
- Created: Today at 09:44AM
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- Gettysburg Address
- Lincoln's stirring memorial to the greatest sacrifice. ... more»
- Category: Patriotism
- Created: Mar 18 at 11:50AM
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- First Fireside Chat
- In the first of his famous "Fireside Chats," FDR addresses Americans on the banking crisis and the measures being taken ... more»
- Category: Economy, Work
- Created: Nov 20 at 03:56PM
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- Steamboat Willie
- Walt Disney first imagined our beloved Disney mascot as a wily mouse named... Mortimer? Luckily, Disney's wife favored the name ... more»
- Category: Humor / Satire
- Created: Nov 18 at 11:52AM
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- Nixon: "I Am Not a Crook.&q...
- President Nixon maintains his innocence in front of a group of over four hundred Associated Press editors. ... more»
- Category: Patriotism
- Created: May 18 at 10:47PM
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- Starting Now: Are You Ready for ...
- As the war in Iraq continues, rumors of a draft have begun to circulate on college campuses. During the Cold ... more»
- Category: War
- Created: Apr 25 at 03:04PM
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- "Duty, Honor, Country"
- At the age of 82, General Douglas Macarthur bids farewell to the Military Academy at West Point. more»
- Category: War
- Created: Today at 09:45AM
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- Lift Every Voice And Sing
- Originally written as a poem in 1900, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was set to music and sung by one ... more»
- Category: Civil Rights
- Created: Nov 13 at 03:07PM
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- I Like Ike
- A good catchy jingle goes a long way. Just look what "Yes We Can" has done for Barack Obama in ... more»
- Created: Apr 25 at 02:37PM
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- Arrival of the Immigrants at Ell...
- Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island. In this 1906 film by Thomas Edison, one ... more»
- Category: Faith & Religion
- Created: Today at 09:44AM
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- Last Words of Harvey Milk
- Supervisor Harvey Milk recorded a message to be played should he ever be assasinated... more»
- Category: Protest
- Created: Nov 11 at 07:18PM
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- Statue of Liberty
- The Statue of Liberty—or la liberté éclairant le monde as the French call her— was dedicated on October 28, 1886. ... more»
- Category: Patriotism
- Created: Today at 09:44AM
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- Address on the Cuban Missile Crisis
- In the fall of 1962, there were unconfirmed reports that the Soviets were installing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba. Imagery ... more»
- Category: Foreign Policy
- Created: Oct 23 at 10:53AM
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- Chuck Yeager Flies Faster than S...
- On 14 October 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate ... more»
- Category: Exploration
- Created: Oct 17 at 02:31PM
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- Barry Goldwater's Acceptance of ...
- Among the most extreme of Conservatives in the 60s, Goldwater stood in opposition to global appeasement and the New Deal ... more»
- Created: Mar 17 at 10:13AM
