• Romare Bearden's The Dove—A Meeting of Vision and Sound: Interactive

    Created February 25, 2011
    Bob Dylan being filmed while performing for a documentary

    American Routes

    A weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.

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    American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

    A radio series which focuses on the fundamental works in American cultural history featuring one-hour programs that span our history: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, I Love Lucy, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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    Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” is first performed

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    Art & Culture
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    Repeats every year until Sun Dec 30 2035 .
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    Event Date Display: 
    December 30, 1879
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    Related Links: 
    Sir Arthur Sullivan, Victorian Web

    Mexican Revolution begins

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    An EDSITEment Spotlight on the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution

    Main Subject Areas: 
    Foreign Language
    History & Social Studies
    Event Date: 
    Repeats every year until Tue Nov 20 2035 .
    November 20, 2010
    November 20, 2011
    November 20, 2012
    November 20, 2013
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    Event Date Display: 
    November 20, 1910
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
    La Familia
    Lesson 2: "To Elect Good Men": Woodrow Wilson and Latin America
    Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
    Related Links: 
    The Getty
    Interactive Timeline, History of Mexico
    The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910–2010

    NEH Exhibitions Today

    Discover what's open in your area right now or visit a digital version anytime.

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  • Spirituals

    Created October 6, 2010
    Spirituals

    Tap into an African-American song tradition that has fired hope throughout the long struggle for freedom.

  • Learning the Blues

    Created September 30, 2010
    Learning the Blues: Blues

    Take a virtual field trip to Memphis, Tennessee, and explore the history of the blues.

  • Music from Across America

    Created September 28, 2010
    Music from Across America: Zydeco musician

    Students listen to a variety of popular, traditional, and ethnic American music, from the evocative sounds of Native American drumming to the lively sounds of zydeco music from Louisiana.

  • Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory

    Created September 23, 2010
    Jazz and World War II: Billie Holiday

    Learn about the effects that the Second World War had on jazz music as well as the contributions that jazz musicians made to the war effort. This lesson will help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an export of American culture and a means of resistance to the Nazis.

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