Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers - July 28

Monday, July 28, 2025

Today is Buffalo Soldiers Day, Hamburger Day, Milk Chocolate Day, National Waterpark Day, and World Nature Conservation Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers

ON THIS DATE

• 1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, in a lead-up to the beginning of WWI.
• 1932 - President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans from encampments in Washington, D.C.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1635 - English scientist Robert Hooke
• `879 - Activist and suffragist Lucy Burns
• 1932 - Children's author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt
• 1929 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, Kansas - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe - MAKE

THEME: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS learning Media - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D (10:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Our Hungry Planet - What's up with Your Gut Microbiome? (3:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks like under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - How Two Microbes Changed History (7:39) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope (7:27) - VIEW and DO

THEME: BUFFALO SOLDIERS

• Grades 5-12 - National Museum of African American History and Culture - Buffalo Soldiers - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - National Park Service - Charles Young Buffalo Soldier Monument - READ
• Grades 5-12 - Yosemite National Park - Buffalo Soldiers - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Moments in Time - Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico (9:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Buffalo Soldiers Fight Fires and Stereotypes (4:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Untold Stories: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers (11:27) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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