McCarthyism - November 14
Learning About Our History
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Today is National Pickle Day and World Diabetes Day.
November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, National Family Literacy Month, National Novel Writing Month, Picture Book Month, Native American Heritage Month, Manatee Awareness Month, and Historic Bridge Awareness Month.
Native American Heritage Month Resource - Molly of Denali Videos
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: McCarthyism
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- 1886 - Friedrich Soennecken develops the hole puncher.
- 1889 - Journalist Nellie Bly begins an attempt to travel around the world in under 80 days. She does it in 72.
- 1960 - Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
- 1771 - French physiologist and father of modern histology Marie François Xavier Bichat
- 1805 - German pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn
- 1840 - French painter Claude Monet
- 1889 - Indian independence leader and prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1897 - Artist John Steuart Curry
- 1900 - Composer Aaron Copland
- 1907 - Swedish author Astrid Lindgren
- 1907 - Author William Steig
- 1908 - Politician Joseph McCarthy
- 1915 - Black figure skater and coach Mabel Fairbanks
- 1947 - Political satirist, writer, and part-time NH resident P. J. O'Rourke
- 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
- 1966 - Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling
The Weavers - If I Had a Hammer - LISTEN- Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song - LISTEN
- Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man - LISTEN
- Fanny Mendelssohn - Notturno in G minor - LISTEN
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans - McCarthyism (7:03) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - Teach Rock - Artists Protest McCarthyism - LISTEN, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Larry Tye On Parallels Between Trump and Joseph McCarthy (6:32) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy (57:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Chapter One (8:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthyism: Anatomy of an Investigation (5:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Margaret Chase Smith (1:16) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Langston Hughes on Trial (4:39) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - McCarthy - Roy Cohn: Chief Counsel for McCarthy (1:04) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - McCarthy - The Speech That Launched the 1950s Red Scare (4:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - McCarthy -The Role of the Press in the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy (2:25) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters- McCarthy - HUAC: Backlash and Implications (3:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - McCarthy - HUAC and Hollywood (5:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
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- 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Different Feelings About Birthdays/Candle Factory
- 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - Butterflies And Bunny Babies/Every Meow And Again
- 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Volcano Boy/Sea Monster
- 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Arthur - Mr. Ratburns Secret Identity/Besties
- 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Curious George - Curious Gorge/Sound Story
- 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Nature Cat - Soil Turmoil/Wisteria Hysteria
- 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - Super Sensors
- 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - Space Waste Odyssey, Part 1
- 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - The Sandwich Project/Wax On Wax Odd
- 1-2 pm NHPBS - Nature - Snow Bears
- 2-3 pm NHPBS - Nature - Arctic Wolf Pack
- 3-4 pm NHPBS - Nature - The Alps: The High Life
- 4-5 pm NHPBS - Nature - The Alps: Winter's Fortress
- 5-7 pm NHPBS - Reconstruction: America After The Civil War
NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options
- 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Our Hometown Ashland
- 6-7 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Great Performances at the Met - The Wagnerians In Concert
- 7:30-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Great Performances - A John Williams Premiere At Tanglewood
- 9-10 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Nature - The Alps: Winter's Fortress
- 10-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Secrets of the Dead - Hindenburg's Fatal Flaws
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- 9-10 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Blood Memory
- 10-11 am NH WORLD - Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools
- 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nature - Born In The Rockies: First Steps
- 10-11 pm NH WORLD - Native America - From Caves To Cosmos
- 11 pm-12 am NH WORLD - Native America - Nature To Nations
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