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A Day at Fort Davis, outpost of the Western frontier is depicted through videos, photographs and the voice of a soldier from the 1870s-1880s. A joint project of Fort Davis National Historic Site and the non-profit Texas Mountain Trail. Fort Davis is in the mountains of Far West Texas and is one of the best preserved frontier forts in the nation. Follow along at: www.facebook.com/TexasMountainTrail and www.twitter.com/trailgirl on Thursday, October 13

A TwHistory of the story of Jonah from multiple perspectives.

In 1868, French Astronomer Jules Janssen detected a line that showed the first evidences about me.

Walks through the assassination of Lincoln

This re-enactment will follow the life of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

What was the trip over to the New World on the Mayflower like?

45 historical figures from the late 1800s tweet from White City over a course of two days visiting the World's Fair.

10th grade reenactment of French Revolution. This is just a test

This TWHistory is a chance to explore the time frame of Charles Dickens, his work and characters from his books.

Just practicing....

This Re-enactment is designed to give students a personal experience of the revolution by portraying those people who influenced those events.

(AKA the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory,[3] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. The location has been designated a National Historic Site and is administered by the National Park Service. (Wikipedia)

The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the English, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers killed five civilian men. It helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which led up to the American Revolutionary War. The British increase in troops in Boston led to a tense situation that erupted into brawls between soldiers and civilians. The troops fired after being threatened by a mob. Three rioting civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, eleven were injured, and two died after the incident.

A trial re-enactment for the Revolutionary Battle of Saratoga.

This December, Ms. Vroomunn's AP European History classes will twitter the events of the French Revolution from 1789 through Napoleon's coup d'état. Stay tuned.

As the Jewish people continue in their Journey from Har Sinai to Eretz Yisroel some interesting events happen on the way...

Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1967.

this is a test

Groups will play roles of: United StatesJohn F. Kennedy-senate, Cuba- Fidel Castro and Soviet Union- Khrushchev, Gromyko.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days' return from exile.

May, 1893. After seeing wages reduced 25% in less than a year by Pullman's Palace Car company, the most famous railroad sleeping car manufacturer of the time, workers have had enough. The factory closes down as they strike. Led by organizer Eugene V. Debs, the strike quickly escalates. Derailing of cars, clashes with federal troops, a huge fire, and mass rioting ensues, and the U.S. government makes choices that will have permanent reverberations for the American left and the labor movement.

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Students will participate in the process of the passing of the young Egyptian king, King Tut. They will experience what it was like to be a servant to the king, and the rituals that are followed to make sure that he survives the "Devourer of Souls" and moves into the great beyond...

Freedom riders were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961.

This was the epic war between the Persians and Greeks between 490BC-479BC.

To celebrate it's ten year history, we've created a timeline of significant events in the development of OpenCourseWare.

August 9th, 1988. The Oilers made a business decision, not a hockey decision, and traded 99 to the LA Kings. As a hockey fan, I would never be the same.

Watch WWII unfold day by day through original Cabinet Papers from 1940 held at The National Archives.

The Titanic will sail again . . . and then it will sink again! Join the crew of the Titanic as they relive that fateful April night in 1912.

Post revolution and the youngest colony must learn to make it without Mother England economically and politically. Will there be comfort in the safety of the Articles of Confederation? Will this document allow the fledgling country to thrive? Let's see how it all went down....and who was involved in our state!