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Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore: Thomas Jefferson Revealed

  By Witnify Admin • October 5, 2015 Uncategorized
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Mount Rushmore carving began October 4, 1927 near Keystone South Carolina.  Mount Rushmore was sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum.  The president faces were completed between 1934 and 1939.  Mount Rushmore has the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. President … Continue reading

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Sand Creek Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre: Silas Soule

  By Witnify Admin • August 20, 2015 Uncategorized
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On November 29, 1864, Captain Soule and his company were with the regiment at Sand Creek, Colorado. A fellow abolitionist, Colonel John Chivington ordered the cavalry to attack Black Kettle’s encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho there. Soule saw that the Cheyenne were flying the Union flag as a sign of … Continue reading

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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn On Honesty In History

  By Ilana Faber • January 23, 2015 Uncategorized
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Howard Zinn was an American historian, author and social activist. He taught political science at Boston University and history at Spelman College. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-known A People’s History of the United States. In this video, Zinn discusses his book A Young People’s History of … Continue reading

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Michael Rockefeller’s Twin Sister Discusses His Death

  By Paul Hardart • December 1, 2014 Uncategorized
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Mary Rockefeller discusses searching for her twin brother Michael Rockefeller in Papua New Guinea in 1963.  Michael, who had recently graduate from Harvard, had headed to Papua New Guinea as part of an anthropological expedition. He had bought a catamaran, which sank off the coast.  He vigorously swam to what … Continue reading