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Index of EyeWitness Accounts - From the Ancient World through the 20th Century
Photo Of The Week - A freeze frame of time.
SnapShots - Photographic Gateways to History: World War I, America in the 20s, the Great Depression.
Voices of the 20th Century - sounds from the past.
History in Motion - film clips from the past.

Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.
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Fort TiconderogaEthan Allen Captures Fort Ticonderoga, 1775
". . . the Captain came immediately to the door, with his breeches in his hand, when I ordered him to deliver me the fort instantly." In the early days of the American Revolution, the colonists capture a strategic British stronghold.


  Photo of the Week:
Main Street America, 1904.
Oh how times and prices have changed!.

Including:
U-Boat Attack, 1917
Captured German footage of one of its submarines in action during World War I.

The Hindenburg Explodes, 1937
The great German airship bursts into flames as it attempts to land at Lakehurst, NJ.

The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor, 1941
Captured Japanese footage taken from their aircraft during the attack.

Many More >>>

  It Happened This Month:

Slave AuctionSlave Auction, 1859
"...The expression on the faces of all who stepped on the block was always the same, and told of more anguish than it is in the power of words to express."

Tragedy in the AntarcticDoomed Expedition to the South Pole, 1912
"Great God! this is an awful place..." The final days of Capt. Robert Scott's expedition in the Antarctic.


Including:
Iwo Jima, 1945
The first wave attacks the beach in one of WWII's costliest battles.

Theodore Roosevelt 1912
The "Bull Moose" candidate speaks during his unsuccessful campaign for President.

Charles Lindbergh, 1927
The "Lone Eagle" speaks after his historic flight

Many More >>>

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell (1903-1950)

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