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Journey of LGBTQ+ Rights: A Personal and Historical Perspective
This video intertwines personal narratives with the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. It follows the experiences of individuals realizing and accepting their sexuality, set against the backdrop of the broader...
Curated Video
Narrative Writing 1
Narrative Writing explains the purpose of narrative writing and lists examples of focused, specific topics for narrative writing.
PBS
American Masters Meet F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby
Introduce readers to the great Jay Gatsby with a short video from the American Masters series. Narrators analyze how Fitzgerald's choice of narrator and point of view create the dreamlike qualities and near-mythic status of Jay Gatsby.
PBS
A Separate Peace
Jenna and Barbara Bush, daughters of former President George W. Bush, and author Armistead Maupin share with viewers their reasons for selecting John Knowles' A Separate Peace as one of their favorite books.
Lit2Go
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Working hard to please everyone often pleases no one, according Aesop's fable "The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey." After listening to an audio version of the story, individuals invent their own endings to the passage using a...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Story Corps
A podcast of everyday people and their lives. A link to this podcast's Web site is also available.
Other
Go for Broke National Education Center: Hanashi Oral History Program
The stories of Japanese-American soldiers' experiences up to and during World War II and on to today are chronicled on this site.
PBS
Pbs: People's Century: Killing Fields: 1914 18
A companion site to a documentary about the stories that only eyewitnesses can tell provides access to two personal accounts of people who lived through World War One.