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"Overshadowing September 11, 2001, another September day 139 years earlier remains the bloodiest single day in American history. On September 17, 1862, there were more than twice the number of fatalities that were suffered in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon . The number of casualties at Antietam was four times greater than American casualties at Normandy. more American soldiers died at Sharspburg (The Confederate name for the battle) than died in combat in all the other wars fought by this country in the nineteenth century combined:" — James McPherson, historian
This day has come to be remembered as
Bloody Wednesday
Bloody Wednesday
Sharpsburg - September 17, 1862
Photos ..
Library of Congress
The Alexander Gardner Collection
John L. Smith
http://flickr.com/photos/johnsmith/
Bethany L King
http://flickr.com/photos/bethanyking/
and Carol Miller
http://flickr.com/photos/cawarfel/
Film Clips
"Glory"
Tri-Star Pictures
Directed by
Edward Zwick
Clip Editor:
Drew McLaughlin
http://youtube.com/profile?user=weben...
Music
Fife and Gun
Old Friends
Randy Edelman
Going Home
John Frizzell and Randy Edelman
Preformed by
Mary Fahl
For more on The Battle of Antietam visit:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/anti/home.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm
and
http://aotw.org/
For information on Civil War Reenactments:
http://www.cwreenactors.com/index.php
http://www.sutler.net/eventlist.asp
and
http://www.ncwa.org/
Conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
I want to add an additional site that I happened upon after completion and uploading of the project. I highly recommend this ...
The Civil War Home Page
http://www.civil-war.net/
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Antietam
Sharpsburg
Civil
War
reenactors
Glory
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The 1920's, a decade of dissipation, of jazz bands, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, marathon dancers, and bathing beauties. A decade when America truly came of age.
Photos
Library of Congress
Shorpy.com
Louise Brooks Society
The 1920's Experience
The Chicago Daily News
Digital History
Great Gatsby's
Timetable Images
Music
Irving Aaronson and the Commanders
Fred Astaire
George Olsen
Golden Gate Orchestra
Helen Kane
Sophie Tucker
Jack Hytion
conceived and produced by: Dale Caruso
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1920s
Flappers
Prohibition
Bathing
Beauties
Jazz
Age
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Seen through the lense of some of this country finest photographers of the
20th Century as commissioned by Farm Security Administration.
These are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
Photos
Library of Congress
The Documenting America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome....
Music
love theme from bridges of madison county
Christopher Peacock
10,000 miles
Mary Chapin Carpenter
three fisherman
a land filled with wonder
Mark Isham
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
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Great
Depression
Farm
Security
Administration
Migrants
Children
Families
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America Comes of Age Part Two: The Great Dust Bowl - Dreams into Nightmares
Photos courtesy:
U.S. Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome....
Shorpy.com
http://shorpy.com/
Audio Clips:
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
Nebraska' PBS Station N.E.T.
Wessels Living Farm History
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/
Music: Pete Seeger and Aaron Copeland
conveived and produced by Dale Caruso
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Dust
Bowl
1930s
Migrants
Added: 25th September 2008
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Within days of the sinking, a United States Senate subcommittee launched an investigation into the incident, they reported that 1,517 people perished in the accident, while the British investigation placed the number at 1,490
To the gallant crews of the Titanic and the Carpathia
To the passengers ... victims and survivors alike
We remember
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
Thou Who supports with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight.
Lord, if the tempered winds be near,
That, having Thee, they know no fear.
-- Mary C. D. Hamilton (1915)
Photos
Maritime Quest
http://www.maritimequest.com/
Encyclopedia-Titanica
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
The incredible Art of Titanic
E. D. Walker
http://www.edwalkermarine.com/
James A. Flood
http://www.jamesaflood.com
Simon Fisher
http://www.simonfishermaritime.com/
Ken Marschall
http://www.transatlanticdesigns.com/
Audio Clips with survivors
Edith Russell
Charles Herbert Lightoller
BBC radio sound archives
Music
Titanic Soundtrack
music composed and conducted by James Horner
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
Here are several top notch locations to visit and spend time; and to begin you quest for information about Titanic and the tragic event of April 14th 1912
encyclopedia titanica
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
Titanic Nautical Resource Center.
http://www.titanic-nautical.com/
Titanic Historical Society(THS)
http://www.titanic1.org/
And highly reccomended for photos, data, paintings on Titanic, her sisters, or most any type of sailing vessel
Maritime Quest
http://www.maritimequest.com/
If you love the sea, Maritime Quest will definitely top your "favorites" list
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RMS
Titanic
Sinking
1912
Historic
Photos
Survivor
Sea
Disaster
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America Comes of Age - The Korean War
Like Lambs to the Slaughter
US defense spending had reached a modern day low. The military was ill-prepared and ill-equipped, those in authority embraced questionable doctrines.
From a post World War II soft life in Japan, with servants to wash their clothes and shine their boots, these American youth were suddenly uprooted and flung into harm's way. There was no "Remember Pearl Harbor."
The North Korean People's Army was on a roll. The North Korean People's Army had invaded the Republic of Korea in South Korea only 11 days earlier and overwhelmed the ill-equipped Republic of Korea armed forces. The North Korean People's Army steamrolled into Seoul, driving refugees and regrouping Republic of Korea Army units before it, clogging roads and throwing the countryside into a panic.
The invasion caught General Douglas MacArthur and his Far East Command and Eighth Army by surprise, despite recent intelligence reports that North Korea was planning for an attack on the Republic of Korea. General MacArthur had disregarded the reports, saying he did not believe war with North Korea was imminent.
The events that unfolded on the Korean peninsula some 45 years ago offer a telling reminder of what happens when a force goes to war unprepared. Disaster lurks around every bend.
Facing a force of 130,000 NKP soldiers, 3,000 Soviet advisors, a full array of heavy weapons, aircraft and the formidable T-34/85, arguably the best tank to come out of World War II.
American GIs fought bravely at times. At other times when confronted with overwhelming, numerically superior forces, they "bugged-out" to the rear, cursing their government for sending them to this stinking, God-forsaken place where human feces were used to fertilize the land.
Photos
The Library of Congress
The Korean War National Museum
U.S. Army Center of Military History
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Audio Clips
The Library of Congress - Veterans History Project
Wessel's Living History Farm
Music
Perry Como
Far Away Places
Aaron Copeland
Fanfare for the Common Man
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan
Omaha beach
Hymn to the Fallen
conceived and produced by:
Dale Caruso
For more information about the Korean War
http://www.army.mil/cmh/
http://www.korea50.mil/
http://americanradioworks.publicradio...
http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/2...
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Korean
War
1950
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America Comes Of Age
July 10, 1925 - The Scope's Trial
It was the early 1920s, social patterns were in chaos. Traditionalists worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists sought society's approve of their behavior. Intellectual experimentation flourished. In a response to this new social patterns set in motion by modernism, a wave of revivalism developed, becoming especially strong in the American South.
Photos
Smithsonian Archives
http://www.siarchives.si.edu/research...
Famous Trials in American History
Tennessee vs. John Scopes
Douglas O. Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proje...
newsreel footage
curiosity truTV (formerly Court TV)
http://www.trutv.com/newname.html
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Produced by: United Artists
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Music
fanefare for the common man
Aaron Copeland
you can't make a monkey out of me
monkey business
archives, Bryan College, Dayton, Tenn.
http://www.bryan.edu/
the scopes trial
Vernon Dalhart
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Scopes
Monkey
Trial
Evolution
1925
Clarence
Darrow
William
Jennings
Bryan
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he Face of the Great Depression
Part Two: Dust Bowl Refugees
Photos:
The Library of Congress -
from the Dorothea Lange Collection
Music:
hard time killing floor blues
Chris Thomas King
presbyterian guitar
Soggy Bottom Boys
can't find my way home
down to the river to pray
Alison Krause
this land is your land
Woody Guthrie
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Great
Depression
Dust
Bowl
1930s
Dorothea
Lange
Migrants
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t has been called the great American Pastime. From sand lots to vacant lots, there isn't a young boy ... or girl, for that matter, that hasn't had the dream. The dream of being up to bat, in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and "touching them all" to the deafening roar of the crowd. Baseball is truly as American as Apple Pie and the Fourth of July.
Where Dreams are Born is a journey back .. To when legendary ballplayers were mere mortals .. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Bucky Harris, and Walter Johnson. The 1924/25 major league season.
Photos
National Photo Company Archive
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
music
The Natural
Randy Newman
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Harry Carey
Who's On First
Bud Abbot and Lou Costello
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Baseball
Washington
Nationals
Babe
Ruth
Ty
Cobb
Walter
Johnson
1924
1925
Season
Added: 25th September 2008
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Before there were cell phones and super highways, drive-up or drive through, SUVs, DVDs, or MP-3s, before there was politically correct, and children as "friends;" before broad band, e-mail, and chat rooms; mini-malls, mega-stores; downsizing, upgrading, or out-sourcing; fast food or fast lane; walk-in's or take-out's; long before the next ten miles didn't seem to be a photocopy of the last ten miles, there was
The Real America
Photos
The Library of Congress
Documenting America
Music
the moment that could not last
Mark Isham
the old house
J.A.C. Redford
our town
Aaron Copeland
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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1940s
America
Nostalgia
Small
town
rural
Added: 25th September 2008
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