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Have Fun With History: Rainier National Park

9th - 10th
Step back in time and enjoy this national treasure in Washington state as it looked in the 1930s. [12:00]
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Have Fun With History: Story of Our Flag

9th - 10th
Follows the evolution of the flag of the United States from the colonial flags to the stars and stripes of today. Shows by animation the development of the western territories into the present states and how this development effected...
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Have Fun With History: Holiday Season

9th - 10th
The holiday season is upon us and Have Fun With History gives you the opportunity to go back and view some ghosts of Christmas Past in this collection of videos and a game.
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Have Fun With History: Navajo Canyon Country

9th - 10th
A 1954 documentary of the Navajo, or Dine people of Arizona revealing their history as well as their life and customs of the time of the documentary. [12:00]
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Have Fun With History: Frontiers of the Future

9th - 10th
This film made during the Great Depression was an attempt to calm fears of the future by presenting how scientists were hard at work trying to solve the problems of the universe.
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Have Fun With History: Invention: The Vest Pocket Cycle

9th - 10th
In 1933, inventor Alex Brun of Cincinnati, Ohio invented the Vest Pocket Cycle. This is what today would be a minibike or a motorized scooter.
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Have Fun With History: Integration Report 1

9th - 10th
Integration Report 1 is a civil rights documentary covering the year between 1959 and 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama, in Brooklyn, New York, and in Washington, D.C..
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Have Fun With History: Springfield Rifle in the Civil War

9th - 10th
This short but informative video presents the Springfield rifle, its manufacture, how it works. It includes a civil war reenactment, showing how it was used in battle.
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Have Fun With History: Safe Roads

9th - 10th
Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains.
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Have Fun With History: Negro Colleges in Wartime

9th - 10th
World War II film covering the education and training of African Americans in agriculture, design & manufacturing, and more at Howard, Tuskegee, Hampton Roads, and more. [8:00]
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Have Fun With History: Black Diamond Express Railroad

9th - 10th
Historic railroad footage of the Black Diamond Express. [0:26]
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Have Fun With History: u.s. Treasury Department

9th - 10th
Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury Department consists of the: Bureau of Mint, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Public Debt, and the Bureau of...
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Have Fun With History: From Dreams to Reality Inventors

9th - 10th
Narrated by Ossie Davis, this tribute to minority inventors touches upon many inventions that have contributed to American science, technology, and medicine. Motivates junior and senior high school students (minority) to take scientific...
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Have Fun With History: I Was at Kitty Hawk Wright Bros.

9th - 10th
A man who was present at the famous 1903 Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk, NC tells his story and tells what he saw.
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Have Fun With History: Max Fleischer Illustrated News

9th - 10th
Max Fleischer, the power behind the Superman cartoons and comic superstar Betty Boop illustrates 1940 human interest stories. [10:00]
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Have Fun With History: Monon the Hoosier Line

9th - 10th
Monon: the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway which operated from 1897 to 1956 mostly within the state of Indiana. This video is both a history of the origins of the railroad and a time capsule of railways in the middle of the...
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Have Fun With History: Invitation to the Nation

9th - 10th
George Washington narrates this color tour through Mt. Vernon and Washington, D.C. as it looked just after World War II. Monuments, historic spots, museums and other locations in the D.C. area are highlighted.
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Have Fun With History: "El" Manhattan's Elevated Railway

9th - 10th
After 76 years, Manhattan's Third Avenue Elevated Railroad line was dismantled. Here, historic footage reveals the experience and atmosphere of riding this long gone landmark line. [6:00]
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Have Fun With History: Depression Scenes Britton, S. D.

9th - 10th
Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression is captured in these home movies shot by Ivan Besse betwen 1938 and 1939.
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Have Fun With History: Overview of the Civil War

9th - 10th
This brief explanation of the culture of the soldier on each side of this War Between the States and its long lasting effects. [4:00]
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Have Fun With History: Mayflower Ii: Building of a Replica

9th - 10th
This is a short news reel showing the construction and launching of the Mayflower II. Built in 1955, it is still in use today.
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Have Fun With History: u.s. Patent Office Models

9th - 10th
As the U.S. Patent Office no longer required working models of inventions submitted for patent approval, it auctioned off its storehouse of over 150,000 treasures - inventions from years passed.
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Have Fun With History: The Founding of Our Nation

9th - 10th
This beautifully filmed presentation, narrated by Glen Ford, follows our country's progress from the early European colonists into the Revolutionary War and concludes with our country's constitution.
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Have Fun With History: Flying Machines: Hair Raising Moments

9th - 10th
Those daring young men in their flying machines attempt death-defying, barnstorming stunts. So, come, Joesephine, in my flying machine.