This 5:16 excerpt from the “Andy Griffith Show” has the Sheriff convincing the neighborhood boys to study history. Terribly inaccurate but remember, this is just a fictional tv show.
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Video: David McCullough’s 5 Lessons Every High School Student Show Know
In this 5:17 video, author David McCullough shares the five most important ideas high school students should learn before graduating (and it’s not memorizing dates and quotations). This was recorded by CSPAN at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Video: 2014 NCPH Conference Recap
The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso just produced a 2:49 video covering the 2014 annual conference of the National Council Public History in Monterey, California. Using video from the conference and Monterey along with interviews, it highlights the value of the conference. This was created by Karina Arroyo and Jesus Genaro Limon, who I believe are students at UTEP. Perhaps your site could create something like this for your events or conferences with the help of a local college or university.
Video: Sleepy Hollow Cast Members Love NC Historic Sites
In this 32-second video, Tom Mison and Orlando Jones, stars of the television show “Sleepy Hollow” promote the historic sites of North Carolina.
Video: YAP! The North Star Journey
In this 5:29 video, students in the Youth Ambassador Program (YAP) discuss their visits to historic sites as inspiration for their music. Featured are the Nathan and Polly Johnson House in Connecticut and the Bucktown Village Store in Maryland.
Video: A Content-Free Social Studies Classroom
James Kendra, who has been teaching social studies at Kenowa Hills Middle School for the past nineteen years, explains his approach of a “content-free social studies classroom.” In this 12:35 video from TEDx Muskegon, he explains that social studies is the most important class students take in school but not when the emphasis is on facts and dates. “Students want to know why these events are happening,” Kendra says. “Historical events (if they were truly significant) would connect to events of today. We shouldn’t be telling students which events were important, but them discovering how past and present connect.” How would your tours or exhibits change if they were based on current events and then looked to the past for explanations and understanding?
Video: Luminous Hall
The Centenary of the University of Western Australia was celebrated with “Luminous Hall” on February 8, 2013, a 20-minute performance created by Illuminart. Luminous Hall is a “narrative architectural projection” on the exterior of the historic Winthrop Hall that combines mapped projection with music, stories, and drama interpreting the history of the university and local community. Moving beyond son et lumier, the form engages the viewer in history in an extraordinary way. Other examples using Norwood Town Hall and a Night Mural Picnic are available.
Video: Refuse to Fold: Heritage Tourism in the Mississippi Delta
This 35-minute video is the first cut of a working documentary by Brian Dempsey and Angela Smith about heritage tourism and the Mississippi Delta Blues, featuring Jimmy “Duck” Holmes from Bentonia, Mississippi. Dempsey and Smith were PhD students in public history at Middle Tennessee State University four years ago when they produced this video.
Video: History Matters. Students Matter.
Angela Smith, assistant professor and director of the public history program at North Dakota State University shares this six minute general overview of the value of history and how the Public History Program at NDSU has contributed through several student projects. This video was presented at the College Honors Day on October 11, 2013.
Video: History of Halloween
National Geographic Channel presents its history of Halloween in this 3:12 video. It’s a bit dramatic but well produced. As an alternative, you can buy the “Ghosts of History” video to project ghostly images of people in “colonial clothing” on a scrim. I’m not sure the colonial period was the scariest for America–how about the attack on Pearl Harbor or the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Engaging Places 