Stevie Wonder, Stephen Colbert, and the Mexican-American War

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Today is National Apple Pie Day, National Fruit Cocktail Day, and National Hummus Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Stevie Wonder, Stephen Colbert, and the Mexican-American War
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ON THIS DATE

• 1846 - The US declares war on Mexico.
• 1862 - Robert Smalls and a crew of fellow slaves commandeer the cotton steamer the USS Planter and navigate it through Confederate lines to Union forces and freedom.
• 1954 - The Pajama Game opens on Broadway.
• 1985 - Police bomb MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying 250 homes.
• 1989 -  Students stage a hunger strike and occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1882 - French artist Georges Braque
• 1883 - Pathologist and inventor of the Pap  smear Georgios Papanikolaou
• 1907 - English author Daphne du Maurier
• 1914 - Boxer Joe Louis
• 1922 - Actor Bea Arthur
• 1941 - Singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens
• 1944 - Author Armistead Maupin
• 1950 - Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder
• 1964 - Talk show host Stephen Colbert

SONG OF THE DAY 

Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - LISTEN
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour - LISTEN
The Pajama Game - Steam Heat - LISTEN

THEME:  Stevie Wonder

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Stevie Wonder with Grover - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Stevie Wonder - READ and VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - International Jazz Day 10th Anniversary Celebration (with Stevie Wonder Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Aretha Franklin, and more.) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - In Performance at the White House - Stevie Wonder: 'Alfie' - VIEW

THEME:  Stephen Colbert

• Grades PreK-Adult - Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Oscar The Grouch & Stephen Colbert Sing 'Things Are Going To Get Better' - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Stephen Colbert Recites the Gettysburg Address - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Steven Pinker: The Colbert Training Guide - VIEW

THEME:  Mexican-American War

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Division in Mexico. Mexico and the United States in 1846 - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - Ken Burns - The West - Mexican-American War - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - American Experience - How the Mexican-American War Affected Slavery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - Latino Americans - Mexican-American War - VIEW

Watch 

• 8:30-10 am NH WORLD - P.O.V. - Through The Night
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Two Related Quantities, Part 1 And Part 2
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Using Equations To Solve Problems
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Powers Of Powers Of Ten
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 - Solving Quadratic Expressions In Factored Form (Part 3)
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries - The Tropics
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Reagan: American Experience - An American Crusade
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Fighting For Fertility
  
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Human: The World Within - Fuel
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World - Episode 3
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Asian Americans - Breaking Ground
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Asian Americans - A Question Of Loyalty
  

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339