"The gates at the entry to Auschwitz had the words Arbeit Macht Frei written over them. It translates as ‘Work makes you free.’ It was a horribly ironic statement. It was cruel." Melvin Jules Bukiet ...

When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and ...

Show the video segment on auto manufacturing. Ask students to identify Ford's production goals, and determine how he tried to achieve them. Print out and give students copies of the Relevent Appendix: ...

Unlike other Egyptians, pharaohs were polygamous - they had more than one wife, but just one principal queen. She was the wife whose male children were acknowledged as the pharaoh's heirs. Although ...

Some people who provide care for an elder do not realize that everything they do is part of caregiving. They may say, "This is just what families do for each other," or "This is what friends are for." ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

Narrator: It is a story brought to life by their own words, and those of the ordinary men and women who have changed the course of history. In eye witness accounts soldiers ascribe the birth of an ...

Many of you have inquired about reporter Sam Kiley and his background. For further information about Kiley, please visit our online interview with him. And for those of you concerned with the impact ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

NANCY KOEHN: The 1920s were a very important decade in the lives of consumer society in America. Many of those goods, from hoop skirts to candy bars to cereal, had been around for several decades by ...

Voiceover: There have been people living in New Guinea for at least 40,000 years – much longer than on the continents of North and South America. They’re among the most culturally diverse and ...