Louisa May Alcott and Native American Heritage Day - November 29

Friday, November 29, 2024

Today is Native American Heritage Day, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Maize Day, Lemon Crème Pie Day, Day of Listening, and Square Dancing Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Louisa May Alcott and Native American Heritage

ON THIS DATE

• 1963 - Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 -  "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is released by the Beatles.
• 1972 - Atari releases the video game, Pong.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1803 - Austrian mathematician and physicist Christian Doppler
• 1832 - Author Louisa May Alcott
• 1876 - Politician and educator Nellie Tayloe Ross
• 1898 - British author C. S. Lewis
• 1918 - Author Madeleine L'Engle
• 1954 - Director and screenwriter Joel Coen
• 1976 - Actor Chadwick Boseman

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand - LISTEN
  
• Redbone - Come and Get Your Love - LISTEN
  

THEME:  Louisa May Alcott

• Grades 5-12 - Masterpiece - Little Woman - VIEW
• Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Becoming a Writer (1:36) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: An Iconic Character (2:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Defying Convention (2:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism (4:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: The Civil War (4:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The House of Little Women (1:59) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Real Jo March (1:34) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Greta Gerwig Discusses Her Adaptation of "Little Women" (19:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Historic Real-life House That Inspired 'Little Women' (6:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Great American Read - Little Women (3:27) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later (9:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac - What Killed the Author of Little Women? (4:48) - VIEW

THEME:  Native American Heritage

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cripple Creek (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali Series - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - National Museum of the American Indian - READ, VIEW, DO, EXPLORE
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Native American Heritage Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Our New Hampshire - People of the Dawn(18:19) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America - Hopi Origin Story (4:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reconnecting Roots - Native Americans: An Uncommon History (27:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - KVIE Arts Showcase - Native American Art (27:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Albuquerque's Native American Hip-Hop Dance (6:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Native American Hoop Dancing and Hip-Hop in Minneapolis (4:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Warrior Tradition  (54:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Field - What Does Electric Pow Wow Sound Like? (14:01) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -DIGADOHI: Lands, Cherokee, and the Trail of Tears (56:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Made Here - Nebi, Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water (12:31) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America Series - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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