George Washington - February 22

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Today is  Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, Margarita Day, Wildlife Day, Chili Day, Toast Day, and Washington’s Birthday.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Ona (Oney) Judge

• Ona Judge - George Washington's Mount Vernon
• Colonial Williamsburg - The Freedom Quest of Oney Judge Video
• The White House Historical Association - The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
• National Park Service - Ona Judge Escapes to Freedom

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: George Washington

ON THIS DATE

• 1862 - Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the Confederate States of America President.
• 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1980 -  In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeated the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3 in what became known as the Miracle on Ice.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1732 - 1st President of the United States, George Washington
• 1778 - Painter Rembrandt Peale
• 1857 - German physicist Heinrich Hertz
• 1892 - Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 1932 - Politician Ted Kennedy
• 1962 - Australian TV host and zookeeper Steve Irwin

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies - LISTEN

THEME:  George Washington

• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - George Washington Video and Reader (2:26) - VIEW and READ
  
• Grades 2-5 - Liberty's Kids - Captain Molly with George Washington (22:47) - VIEW
• Grades 2-5 - Liberty's Kids - The First Fourth of July with George Washington (23:05) - VIEW
• Grades 2-5 - Liberty's Kids - Washington Takes Command (23:08) - VIEW
• Grades 2-5 - Liberty's Kids - The Man Who Wouldn't Be King (22:56) - VIEW
• Grades 2-5 - Liberty's Kids - Yorktown (with Lafayette and Washington) (23:11) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Exploring Mount Vernon - Biography of George Washington (4:24) -VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Exploring Mount Vernon - Biography of George Washington (56:15) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - George Washington (Available in Spanish) (1:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - George Washington and the American Revolution Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Kentucky Studies - George Washington's Land (7:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789) and Resource Materials - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - A Taste of History -  Washington's Character, Charisma & Ambition (25:11) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - A Taste of History -  Washington’s Winter Headquarters (25:29) - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - White House Lectures: George Washington (57:27) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE - Souhegan vs. Dover
Thursday, 2/22 from 7-7:30 pm NHPBS
Souhegan High meets Dover High in game three in round one of the new season of GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE. GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Streaming Video

OUR HOMETOWN BERLIN
Thursday, 2/22 from 8:30-9 pm NHPBS
A hundred years ago this city, New Hampshire's only city north of the notches, boasted the largest paper-making complex in the world. Immigrants built Berlin and fueled a booming economy, but in 2008, the paper mills were demolished, ending an era of prosperity. Explore how "The City That Trees Built" is reinventing itself. OUR HOMETOWN Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (956) More Options

AMERICAN STORIES: IDA B. WELLS
Thursday, 2/22 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
There are few historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th-century crusading investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragist.

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
Thursday, 2/22 from 3-4:30 pm NH WORLD
This documentary tells a harrowing story of how in the South, even as chattel slavery came to an end, new forms of involuntary servitude, including convict leasing, debt slavery, and peonage, took its place with shocking force -- brutalizing and ultimately circumscribing the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans well into the 20th century. SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME Streaming Video

EYES ON THE PRIZE - The Time Has Come (1964-1966)
Thursday, 2/22 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. "BlackPower!" replaces "Freedom Now!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes. EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video

EYES ON THE PRIZE - Two Societies (1965-1968)
Thursday, 2/22 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference help Chicago's civil rights leaders in the struggle against segregated housing. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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