Frederick Douglass and Valentine's Day - February 14

Learning About Our History

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Today is Ash Wednesday, Frederick Douglass Day, Book Giving Day, League of Women Voters Day, Library Lovers Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Read to Your Child Day, and Valentine’s Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day:  Robert Sengstacke Abbott

• The Chicago Defender
• Robert Sengstacke Abbott and the Black Press

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frederick Douglass
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ON THIS DATE

• 1859 - Oregon becomes the 33rd state.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
• 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th state.
• 1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• 1990 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes a photograph of Earth known as Pale Blue Dot.
• 2018 - 17 die and 15 are injured in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1813 - Black businesswoman Lydia Hamilton Smith
• 1838 - Inventor Margaret E. Knight
• 1847 - Suffragist Anna Howard Shaw
• 1947 - NH politician and 76th governor Judd Gregg
• 1951 - Radio host Terry Gross

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Frank Sinatra - My Funny Valentine - LISTEN

THEME:  Frederick Douglass

• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Frederick Douglass: Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist (Available in Spanish) (3:36) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reading Frederick Douglas (45:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Frederick Douglass (3:59)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists (1:34) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Fredrick Douglass (5:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Life, Beliefs, and Works of Fredrick Douglass  - VIEW 

THEME:  Valentine's Day

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo and Abby's Valentine's Day Song (2:21) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Valentine's Day Red Velvet Pancakes! -Cookie Monster Snack Chat with Joel Gamoran (5:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 -Sesame Street: Valentine - I Love You (0:42) - VIEW
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Happy Halentine's Day (12:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Valentine's Day (1:03) - VIEW and DO

WATCH

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NATURE - Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster
Wednesday, 2/14 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Sir David Attenborough unearths a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: the fossil of a giant Pliosaur, the largest Jurassic predator ever known. Follow a team of forensic experts on a perilous expedition to excavate the skull, uncover the predatory secrets lying deep inside the fossil, and unlock clues about the life of this giant sea beast. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Building the Eiffel Tower
Wednesday, 2/14 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in 1889, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. NOVA Streaming Video

SECRETS OF THE DEAD - The Woman in the Iron Coffin
Wednesday, 2/14 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Follow a team of forensic experts as they investigate the preserved remains of a young African American woman from 19th century New York and reveal the little-known story of early America's free black communities. SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

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CIVILIZATIONS - The Cult of Progress
Wednesday, 2/14 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Examine the rise and fall of "progress" as an ideology, and see how the "civilizing" project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions that troubled European artists in different ways. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

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GO-GO CITY: DISPLACEMENT AND PROTEST IN WASHINGTON, DC
Wednesday, 2/14 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
For decades, Washington, DC has been a beacon for Black culture and community. Now, a wave of economic and cultural gentrification is occurring at breakneck speed threatening to erase this history. Go-Go City follows protesters for racial justice as they took to the streets in the summer of 2020, rallying around the city’s unique Go-Go music scene as they strived to make their voices heard. GO-GO CITY Streaming Video

BLACK FIRE
Wednesday, 2/14 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
A look at Washington, DC's music and cultural heritage through the music, message, and art of the people behind Black Fire Records, a Black-owned independent jazz record label started in the 1970s. BLACK FIRE Streaming Video

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