State History Resources
The following is a selection of some of the state history resources found on C-SPAN Classroom. Additional C-SPAN Classroom resources can be found on the C-SPAN Classroom website.
Below you will find C-SPAN Classroom resources relating to the following states. Click on the name of each state to expand the section and view the featured resources.
Alabama
On This Day: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (4 Clips)
On This Day: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham (3 Clips)
On This Day: Selma, AL and "Bloody Sunday" (4 Clips)
Video Clip: AL State Senator Del Marsh on State Issues (6:31)
Video Clip: Wallace Turnage: Escape from Slavery (4:07)
Video Clip: Josephine Allen Private Institute, Mobile, AL (1:57)
Video Clip: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) at Selma 50th Anniversary (7:31)
Video Clip: Birmingham, AL Civil Rights Institute Tour (9: 53)
Bell Ringer: The French Settlement of Mobile, Alabama (3:25)
Bell Ringer: The Colonization of Mobile, AL (7:10)
Bell Ringer: Moundville Archaeological Park (7:26)
Bell Ringer: The Slave Market in Mobile, Alabama (3:02)
Bell Ringer: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery (10:01)
Bell Ringer: Mobile, AL: Slavery and the Clotilda (9:47)
Bell Ringer: Montgomery During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era (11:41)
Bell Ringer: Birmingham before the Civil Rights Movement (6:56)
Bell Ringer: 1966 Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, AL (4:19)
Bell Ringer: Edmund Pettus Bridge (6:46)
Bell Ringer: Tuskegee Airmen (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Southern Planter Class and the Civil War (4:13)
Bell Ringer: Iron Production in Alabama (6:28)
Bell Ringer: Hidden Figures of Mobile, Alabama (3:54)
Lesson Plan: Voting Rights Marches in Selma (3 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)
Alaska
On This Day: 1964 Alaska Earthquake (2 Clips)
On This Day: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (4 Clips)
Video Clip: Gov. Bill Walker on Policy Issues in Alaska (5:02)
Bell Ringer: The U.S. Purchase of Alaska (3:50)
Bell Ringer: History of the Native People of Southeastern Alaska (8:20)
Bell Ringer: Trans-Alaska Pipeline (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Fur Farms of Alaska (7:22)
Bell Ringer: Colonization of Alaska (7:07)
Bell Ringer: Mining in Alaska (6:36)
Bell Ringer: Native American Civil Rights in Alaska (3:07)
Lesson Plan: Alaska Native Culture Groups (7 Clips)
Arizona
Bell Ringer: The Spanish Settlement in Tucson, Arizona (6:39)
Bell Ringer: World War II Prisoner of War Escape in Scottsdale (5:47)
Bell Ringer: The Hoover Dam (6:51)
Bell Ringer: Immigration and Border Security in Arizona (4:23)
Bell Ringer: Wupatki National Monument (7:29)
Bell Ringer: Immigration and Border Patrol (4:29)
Bell Ringer: Irrigation and Agriculture Industry in Yuma (6:10)
Bell Ringer: Historic Quartermaster Depot in Yuma (5:59)
Bell Ringer: Salt River Pima and Maricopa Native American Community (5:29)
Bell Ringer: Post World War II Growth of Arizona (3:09)
Bell Ringer: Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
Arkansas
On This Day: Little Rock Nine (4 Clips)
Video Clip: AR Governor Asa Hutchinson on Public Policy Issues (6:10)
Bell Ringer: North Little Rock High School Integration (6:29)
Bell Ringer: Japanese Internment Camps In Little Rock, AR (11:12)
Bell Ringer: Arkansans in the Spanish Amerian War (5:32)
Bell Ringer: Settlement of the Ozarks (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Civil War in Fayetteville, AK (5:40)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
California
On This Day: Disneyland Opens (3 Clips)
On This Day: Yosemite National Park (5 Clips)
On This Day: Watts Riots (4 Clips)
On This Day: The Golden Gate Bridge Opened (2 Clips)
On This Day: 1916 San Francisco Bombing (4 Clips)
On This Day: The Assassination of Harvey Milk (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: California's "Top Two Primary" System (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Angel Island (2:15)
Bell Ringer: California Indian Catastrophe (5:16)
Bell Ringer: Nome Cult Trail (7:01)
Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of John Bidwell (12:53)
Bell Ringer: Tongva People in Southern California (5:52)
Bell Ringer: Native Americans in San Luis Obispo (5:33)
Bell Ringer: California's Agricultural History (2:32)
Bell Ringer: Farming and Agriculture in Fresno County, California (6:15)
Bell Ringer: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Americans (13:28)
Bell Ringer: California History: Immigration, Economy, Land and Water Use (15:46)
Bell Ringer: James Lick Observatory (6:28)
Bell Ringer: Computer History (10:51)
Bell Ringer: San Jose Settlement and Peralta Adobe (11:45)
Bell Ringer: Mining in San Jose, California (5:03)
Bell Ringer: The Spanish Settlement of Los Angeles (2:42)
Bell Ringer: Chumash Indians in Southern California (6:00)
Bell Ringer: California Missions and Father Junipero Serra (9:10)
Bell Ringer: Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (4:16)
Bell Ringer: The Economic and Geographic Landscape of the American West (9:52)
Bell Ringer: California History - Immigration, Economy, Land and Water Use (15:46)
Bell Ringer: Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Biddy Mason (7:35)
Bell Ringer: Zoot Suit Riots (2:40)
Bell Ringer: Environment and the Los Angeles Aqueduct (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The California Gold Rush (6 Clips)
Colorado
On This Day: Sand Creek Massacre (3 Clips)
Video Clip: CO Gov. Hickenlooper on the Impacts of Legalized Marijuana (5:01)
Bell Ringer: Native Americans of Colorado in Paleolithic and Archaic Periods (4:23)
Bell Ringer: El Pueblo (4:16)
Bell Ringer: Silver Crash of 1893 (6:46)
Bell Ringer: Rocky Flats Nuclear Site (6:56)
Bell Ringer: Chicano Movement in Colorado (7:47)
Bell Ringer: History of the Utes in Colorado (4:35)
Bell Ringer: 1879 White River Massacre (Ute War) (10:09)
Bell Ringer: Nikola Tesla (8:48)
Bell Ringer: Silver Crash of 1893 (6:46)
Bell Ringer: Zebulon Pike and Pikes Peak (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Tuberculosis in Colorado Springs (5:33)
Bell Ringer: William Jackson Palmer and Colorado Springs (5:10)
Bell Ringer: Ludlow Massacre (6:55)
Bell Ringer: Racial Dynamics in the West Following the Civil War (6:00)
Bell Ringer: Western Women in the 19th Century (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
Connecticut
Video Clip: CT Secretary of State on Civic Education and Voting (1:46)
Bell Ringer: Kelo v. City of New London
Bell Ringer: The Amistad Trial (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Connecticut and the American Revolution (5:44)
Bell Ringer: Hartford Convention (1:48)
Bell Ringer: Connecticut State House and State Laws (1:35)
Delaware
Video Clip: Delaware Gov. John Carney on State Issues (6:28)
Bell Ringer: The Founding of Delaware (1:30)
Bell Ringer: Founding Father John Dickinson's Role in Delaware History (3:31)
Bell Ringer: African American Movement for Education in Delaware (5:58)
Bell Ringer: African American Education in Delaware (5:07)
Bell Ringer: Samuel Burris, Conductor on the Underground Railroad (2:41)
District of Columbia
On This Day: British Troops Set Fire to the White House (4 Clips)
Video Clip: Mayor Muriel Bowser on D.C. Issues (4:39)
Video Clip: Washington, D.C. Voting Rights Amendment (1:37)
Video Clip: Hidden History of Alexandria, Virginia (8:50)
Bell Ringer: District of Columbia Emancipation Act (6:32)
Bell Ringer: Tour of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC (12:33)
Bell Ringer: 1968 Washington, DC Riots (8:01)
Bell Ringer: Pierre Charles L’Enfant and the Design of Washington, DC (13:28)
Bell Ringer: History of Washington, DC (4:30)
Bell Ringer: The Nation's Capital and the Compromise of 1790 (3:40)
Bell Ringer: The White House Grounds (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass (10:24)
Bell Ringer: The History Washington DC’s Union Station (4:45)
Lesson Plan: The History and Role of the White House (1 Clip)
Florida
On This Day: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (1:05)
On This Day: Bush v. Gore is Decided by the Supreme Court (6 Clips)
Video Clip: FL House Speaker Richard Corcoran on Hurricane Preparedness (3:56)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Seminole Nation (3:04)
Bell Ringer: Explorers: Hernando De Soto (4:27)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Settlement of St. Augustine in 1565 (6:32)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Explorer and Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon (3:21)
Bell Ringer: The Spanish Empire in Western Florida (5:40)
Bell Ringer: Last Slave Ships of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (9:45)
Bell Ringer: Thomas Edison's Fort Myers Laboratory (7:22)
Bell Ringer: Baseball Spring Training and Fort Myers (3:16)
Bell Ringer: National Security in Space (4:48, 1:05)
Bell Ringer: The Impact of Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades (5:33)
Georgia
Bell Ringer: James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Colony (6:24)
Bell Ringer: Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin (1:14)
Bell Ringer: President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia (2:24)
Bell Ringer: The Purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea (2:23)
Bell Ringer: Indian Removal Act of 1830 (6:48)
Bell Ringer: Andersonville Prison (5:25)
Bell Ringer: Music and Civil Rights (5:21)
Bell Ringer: Augusta Canal and Confederate Powder Works (6:21)
Bell Ringer: Pianist "Blind Tom" Wiggins (5:14)
Hawaii
Video Clip: The Attack on Pearl Harbor (2:19)
Video Clip: Hawaii State Capitol and Statehood (11:57)
Video Clip: Hawaii's Relationship with the Federal Government (1:28)
Video Clip: Eddie Would Go (10:48)
Bell Ringer: Hawaii's Past and Present (4:13)
Bell Ringer: Legacy of Voyaging on Board the Hokulea Canoe (6:25)
Bell Ringer: USS Missouri and Surrender (6:08)
Bell Ringer: Honolulu Rail Transit Project (4:19)
Idaho
Video Clip: Gov. Butch Otter Discusses School Safety in Idaho (2:55)
Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade in Idaho (2:29)
Bell Ringer: Coeur D’Alene Tribe (6:13)
Bell Ringer: Idaho National Forest and Wilderness Bill (1:37)
Bell Ringer: The Mining District in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (4:58)
Illinois
On This Day: The Chicago Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 (3 Clips)
On This Day: Emmett Till and the Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement (4 Clips)
Video Clip: State Representative Tim Butler on Policy Issues in Illinois (8:34)
Bell Ringer: French Settlers and Explorers in Illinois (2:47)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Early History of Public Housing (2:23)
Bell Ringer: Changes to Illinois Waterways (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (3:50)
Bell Ringer: Mary Todd Lincoln in Springfield (7:26)
Bell Ringer: The Early Life of Betty Friedan in Peoria, IL (5:49)
Lesson Plan: The Impact of the French and Indian War (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Jane Addams and John Dewey (4 clips)
Indiana
Video Clip: Indiana State Capitol Tour (10:00)
Video Clip: Mascots in Sports (6:33)
Video Clip: Origins of the Indianapolis 500 (15:38)
Video Clip: James Whitcomb Riley Home (7:09)
Video Clip: Madame C.J. Walker (6:00)
On This Day: Battle of Tippecanoe (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Indiana State History Museum (13:00)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Eugene V. Debs and the Emergence of US Socialism (5:49)
Bell Ringer: Urban Transportation Planning in Lafayette, Indiana (5:37)
Bell Ringer: Purdue University and Early Aviation (5:44)
Lesson Plan: The Impact of the French and Indian War (8 Clips)
Iowa
Video Clip: Iowa Senate President Schneider on State Issues (4:00)
Bell Ringer: Benefits of Early Primaries/Caucuses in New Hampshire and Iowa (3:42)
Bell Ringer: History of the Iowa Caucuses (7:39)
Bell Ringer: American Gothic and the American Midwest (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: African American Migration to Iowa (5:42)
Bell Ringer: Czechs and Slovaks to the United States (5:45)
Lesson Plan: Tinker v Des Moines (1969) (12 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Kansas
Video Clip: Kansas Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer on Health Care (4:18)
Video Clip: Carry Nation and the Temperance Movement (1:30)
Bell Ringer: Civil War and Origins of Lawrence (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Bleeding Kansas (7:05)
Bell Ringer: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas (4:05)
Bell Ringer: Kansas-Nebraska Act (4:33)
Bell Ringer: Bleeding Kansas and the Free-State Movement (9:19)
Bell Ringer: Dockum Drug Store Sit-In in Wichita, Kansas (9:46)
Bell Ringer: Life in Early Midwestern Cities (5:46)
Bell Ringer: 1965 Aviation Disaster in Wichita, Kansas (5:58)
Lesson Plan: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Kentucky
Video Clip: Kentucky Senate President Robert Stiver (13:05)
Bell Ringer: Maysville Road and The American Plan (6:27)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: Battle of Fort Donelson (2:22)
Bell Ringer: Henry Clay and the Compromise of 1850 (6:18)
Bell Ringer: Steamboats in America (5:24)
Bell Ringer: The Assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel (4:29)
Bell Ringer: Kentucky Whiskey (5:20)
Louisiana
Video Clip: Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on State Issues (6:23)
Video Clip: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on History and the Racial Divide (5:33)
Bell Ringer: The Domestic Slave Trade (3:29)
Bell Ringer: Mardi Gras (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Battle of New Orleans (9:06)
Bell Ringer: Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812 (5:02)
Bell Ringer: Reconstruction in New Orleans (2:55)
Bell Ringer: Baton Rouge Bus Boycott (7:54)
Bell Ringer: The Emergence of Jazz (4:15)
Bell Ringer: B-52s at Barksdale Air Force Base (5:57)
Bell Ringer: Jean Lafitte, Smuggler for New Orleans (4:11)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Maine
Video Clip: Governor LePage on Top Policy Issues in Maine (7:17)
Bell Ringer: The Missouri Compromise (5:20)
Bell Ringer: Eviction of Malaga Island, Maine (6:28)
Bell Ringer: Artisan Trades of Maine: Past and Present (8:14)
Bell Ringer: The Edwards Dam in Augusta, ME (5:52)
Maryland
On This Day: The Catonsville 9 (5 Clips)
On This Day: The Creation of the U.S. Naval Academy (4 Clips)
On This Day: The Battle at Antietam (6 Clips)
Video Clip: MD Lt. Gov. i Boyd Rutherford and the Opioid Epidemic (4:45)
Bell Ringer: Individual Rights and the Early American Colonies (3:24)
Bell Ringer: The Burning of Washington (4:36)
Bell Ringer: The Chesapeake Bay in the War of 1812 (2:24)
Bell Ringer: Francis Scott Key and the Writing of the Star-Spangled Banner (2:43)
Bell Ringer: Civil War- Battle of Monocacy (6:57)
Bell Ringer: Battle of Antietam (2:39)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: The Oyster Industry in Annapolis (4:54)
Bell Ringer: Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (5:06)
Lesson Plan: The War of 1812 (10 Clips)
Massachusetts
On This Day: Boston Tea Party (3 Clips)
On This Day: Mayflower Compact (5 Clips)
On This Day: The Tea Act (4 Clips)
On This Day: Salem Witch Trials (5 Clips)
Video Clip: Who Were the Pilgrims? (3:00)
Video Clip: New Beginnings for the Pilgrims (4:11)
Bell Ringer: The Mayflower Compact (3:18)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Massachusetts Colony's Body of Liberties (6:07)
Bell Ringer: Ralph Waldo Emerson (5:46)
Bell Ringer: The Beginning of the Revolutionary War (13:02)
Bell Ringer: Worcester Revolution of 1774 and the American Revolution (8:49)
Bell Ringer: Boston Tea Party Debate (11:53)
Bell Ringer: The Religious Beliefs of Puritans in New England (5:08)
Bell Ringer: The History of Dissent in America (5:32)
Bell Ringer: Plymouth Colony - The Pilgrims (2:20)
Bell Ringer: Old North Church (4:34)
Bell Ringer: President John Adams - Early Life (7:09)
Bell Ringer: History of the Concord Grape (2:54)
Bell Ringer: Lucy Stone: Suffragette and Abolitionist (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: African Americans in Early Concord, MA (5:37)
Lesson Plan: The Pilgrim Story (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Predecessors to the Bill of Rights (6 Clips)
Michigan
Video Clip: MI State Senator Tonya Schuitmaker on State Issues (5:32)
Video Clip: Toledo War (6:09)
Video Clip: Detroit's Paradise Valley (3:43)
Bell Ringer: The Settlement of Detroit and New France (3:50)
Bell Ringer: The Michigan State Capitol (9:30)
Bell Ringer: Michigan State History (8:05)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: The French and Indian War and Pontiac's War (3:37)
Bell Ringer: Escaped Slaves in Detroit (6:26)
Bell Ringer: The Underground Railroad: From Memphis to Detroit (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Lumber Industry in Traverse City, Michigan (4:59)
Bell Ringer: The Assembly Line and Fordism (6:34)
Bell Ringer: Henry Ford and the Model T (4:40)
Bell Ringer: The Automotive Industry in Detroit (2:46)
Bell Ringer: Martin Luther King's "Walk to Freedom" in Detroit 1963 (5:20)
Bell Ringer: Changes in the Automotive Industry Due to Gas Prices (3:20)
Bell Ringer: Urban Policies Impacting the Flint Water Crisis (3:25)
Lesson Plan: The 1967 Detroit Riots (8 Clips)
Minnesota
Video Clip: Brenda Casseillus Discusses Education Policy in Minnesota (7:37)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: The Role of Women in Late-1800s American Medicine (4:40)
Bell Ringer: Westward Expansion: Dakota Indians and Fort Snelling (3:57)
Bell Ringer: The Green Book and African American Travel in Minnesota (5:15)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Mississippi
On This Day: Emmett Till and the Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement (4 Clips)
On This Day: Hiram Revels: The First African American U.S. Senator (2 Clips)
Video Clip: MS Attorney General Jim Hood on Key Public Policy Issues (10:43)
Bell Ringer: The Mississippi Plan and Voting Rights (3:34)
Bell Ringer: Freedom Summer School (4:57)
Bell Ringer: Freedom Summer and Civil Rights in Mississippi (11:25)
Bell Ringer: The Early Life of Medgar Evers (5:40)
Bell Ringer: Confederate Monuments in Mississippi (6:23)
Bell Ringer: Ida B. Wells Anti-Lynching Campaign (2 Clips)
Missouri
On This Day: The Gateway Arch (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Westward Trails from Independence, Missouri (11:19)
Bell Ringer: Mormon Pioneers in Missouri (7:49)
Bell Ringer: The Political Machine and Thomas Pendergast (10:07)
Bell Ringer: The Missouri Compromise (5:20)
Bell Ringer: Missouri Prior to the Civil War (8:36)
Bell Ringer: Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (17:20)
Bell Ringer: Dred and Harriet Scott and the Dred Scott Decision (4:37)
Bell Ringer: Integration of Baseball (6:00)
Bell Ringer: City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City (3:50)
Lesson Plan: Major Events Leading to the Civil War (9 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Montana
Video Clip: Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney Discusses Top Policy Issues in Montana (8:39)
Video Clip: Jeannette Rankin and Female Representation in Congress (2:02)
Video Clip: Yellowstone National Park (4:42)
Video Clip: Paleontology in Montana (10:44)
Bell Ringer: Wildlife of the Early American West (7:21)
Bell Ringer: John Bozeman (13:23)
Bell Ringer: Nelson Story (8:16)
Bell Ringer: Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires (7:07)
Bell Ringer: History of Cowboys (2:33)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition (10:48)
Bell Ringer: Battle of Little Bighorn (5:23)
Bell Ringer: The US Forest Service in Montana (6:26)
Bell Ringer: The Reclamation Act and the Huntley Irrigation Project (3:48)
Bell Ringer: Pictograph Cave in Montana (6:04)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Nebraska
Bell Ringer: Wildlife of the Early American West (7:21)
Bell Ringer: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas (4:05)
Bell Ringer: Kansas-Nebraska Act (4:33)
Bell Ringer: Omaha, Nebraska's Military Heritage (5:19)
Bell Ringer: The Homestead Act and Nebraska (4:53)
Bell Ringer: Moving the Capital of Nebraska (5:41)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Nevada
Video Clip: Governor Brian Sandoval on Top Policy Issues in Nevada (9:35)
Video Clip: Nevada Mining and the Comstock Lode (11:30)
Bell Ringer: The Hoover Dam (6:51)
Bell Ringer: Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (17:20)
Bell Ringer: Divorce Industry in Reno, Nevada (NV) (3:52)
Bell Ringer: The History of Las Vegas (5:20)
Bell Ringer: Indian Schools in Nevada (4:20)
New Hampshire
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Benefits of Early Primaries in New Hampshire and Iowa (3:42)
Bell Ringer: History of the New Hampshire Primary (9:44)
Bell Ringer: Vermont and the Formation of the Green Mountain Boys (3:16)
Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Christa McAuliffe (5:46)
Bell Ringer: The Career of Franklin Pierce (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Early Settlement of New Hampshire(5:20)
New Jersey
On This Day: Hamilton-Burr Duel (4 Clips)
Video Clip: NJ State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D) (8:58)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Old Barracks in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars (9:44)
Bell Ringer: Washington Crossing the Delaware (8:52)
Bell Ringer: Battle of Trenton (13:30)
Bell Ringer: 19th Century Industry: Roebling and Sons (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: New Jersey State House (4:32)
Bell Ringer: The First Library in New Jersey (4:55)
New Mexico
Video Clip: New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf on Policy Issues (4:03)
Bell Ringer: The Diffusion of Agricultural Products (1:31)
Bell Ringer: Pojoaque Pueblo (7:28)
Bell Ringer: The Chile Pepper and New Mexico (3:43)
Bell Ringer: The Role of White Sands Missile Range (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Albuquerque, New Mexico and the History of Hot Air Balloons (4:38)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
New York
On This Day: Brooklyn Bridge Opens (3 Clips)
On This Day: Statue of Liberty (3 Clips)
On This Day: Hamilton-Burr Duel (4 Clips)
On This Day: Woodstock Music Festival (3 Clips)
On This Day: Seneca Falls Convention (3 Clips)
On This Day: FDR Lays Cornerstone of First Presidential Library (6 Clips)
On This Day: Ellis Island Opens (3 Clips)
On This Day: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (7 Clips)
On This Day: The Stonewall Riots (4 Clips)
Video Clip: The Brooklyn Bridge (4:32)
Video Clip: Lower East Side New York Tenement Museum Tour (28:00)
Video Clip: Gilded Age New York Museum Tour (28:42)
Bell Ringer: Native Americans and the Colonization of New York (4:03)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Triangle Factory Fire Leads to Unionism in America (1:33)
Bell Ringer: Hudson River (2:35)
Bell Ringer: Ellis Island Immigration Museum (9:15)
Bell Ringer: Thomas Nast and Tammany Hall (2:59)
Bell Ringer: New York City and the 1863 Draft Riots (12:44)
Bell Ringer: Origin of Chautauqua in New York State (2:46)
Bell Ringer: The Erie Canal (4:40)
Bell Ringer: Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution (4:23)
Bell Ringer: Life in New York City's Tenement Housing During the Gilded Age (6:20)
Bell Ringer: New York City Draft Riots (2:01)
Bell Ringer: Assassination of President McKinley (6:24)
Bell Ringer: Inventor: Robert Fulton (6:09)
Bell Ringer: Saratoga Springs (3:23)
Bell Ringer: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Iroquois Nation (5:16)
North Carolina
On This Day: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In (3 Clips)
Video Clip: History of the University of North Carolina (5:18)
Video Clip: What is a Tar Heel? (1:07)
Video Clip: Carolina Basketball Museum (8:23) - 1910
Video Clip: NC Attorney General Josh Stein on State Issues (8:36)
Video Clip: North Carolina State Archives (11:46)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: The Slave Trade Compromise (2:58)
Bell Ringer: Wilmington, North Carolina: Artifacts from the 1898 coup d’etat (8:31)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: Fort Fisher (15:16)
Bell Ringer: The History of Wilmington, North Carolina (1:47)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: Fort Anderson and the Battle for Wilmington (11:08)
Bell Ringer: The Historic Literary Sites of Wilmington, North Carolina (11:25)
Bell Ringer: Wilmington's Colonial Justice System (9:57)
Bell Ringer: Colonial Economics in the Cape Fear Region (7:19)
Bell Ringer: Alexander Manly's The Daily Record (6:47)
Bell Ringer: Chapel Hill, NC Civil Rights History (5:01)
Bell Ringer: North Carolina Collection Gallery: African American Contributions (9:12)
Bell Ringer: The Wilmington Ten (5:51)
Bell Ringer: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins (6:16)
Bell Ringer: Carolina Charter of 1663 and Self-Government (2:46)
Bell Ringer: First Discovery of Gold in the U.S. (4:04)
Bell Ringer: The Wright Brothers and First Flight (5:42)
Bell Ringer: Blackbeard and Piracy in 18th Century (7:57)
Bell Ringer: The Biltmore Estate (5:39)
Bell Ringer: Tobacco and the Growth of Winston-Salem (6:54)
Bell Ringer: Revolutionary War: Military Strategy during the Battle at Guilford Courthouse (5:55)
North Dakota
On This Day: Lewis & Clark Expedition (3 Clips)
Video Clip: Gov. Doug Burgum on Oil Boom and Jobs in North Dakota (2:39)
Bell Ringer: Wildlife of the Early American West (7:21)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Book Collection (7:48)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition (10:48)
Bell Ringer: Dakota Access Pipeline Debate (3:55, 2:24)
Bell Ringer: Oil and North Dakota (2:37)
Bell Ringer: Surrender of Sitting Bull (5:53)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Ohio
Video Clip: Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof (11:45)
Video Clip: Toledo War (6:09)
Bell Ringer: Ohio and Erie Canal (8:17)
Bell Ringer: Kelton House and the Underground Railroad (7:49)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: The French and Indian War and Pontiac's War (3:37)
Bell Ringer: Legacy of Tecumseh (7:21)
Bell Ringer: General Anthony Wayne and the Battle of Fallen Timbers (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Native Americans and the Battle of Fallen Timbers (8:15)
Bell Ringer: Fort Meigs and the War of 1812 (8:06)
Bell Ringer: Edward Libbey and the Glass City (6:45)
Bell Ringer: Newsboys in Ohio (1:40)
Bell Ringer: The 1931 Banking Crash in Toledo, Ohio (7:39)
Bell Ringer: Auto-Lite Labor Strike of 1934 (5:06)
Bell Ringer: Burning Rivers and Environmental Squalor (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Invention of Cash Registers: A New Way of Doing Business (3:51)
Bell Ringer: The Cuyahoga River and Environmental Restoration (4:02)
Bell Ringer: First Female Presidential Candidate: Victoria Woodhull (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: James Garfield: The 20th President of the United States (6:05)
Oklahoma
On This Day: Oklahoma City Bombing (5 Clips)
Video Clip: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Key Public Policy Issues (10:00)
Video Clip: National Weather Center (7:55)
Bell Ringer: The Homestead Act and the Oklahoma Land Run (4:31)
Bell Ringer: Indian Removal Act of 1830 (6:48)
Bell Ringer: Forced Removal of the Citizen Potawatomi People (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Dawes Act and Indian Land Ownership (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma (5:05)
Bell Ringer: Tulsa: An Eastern City in the West (6:21)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 (4 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Osage Native Americans - Removal, Wealth, Murder (5 Clips)
Oregon
Video Clip: Vote-by-Mail Laws in Oregon (2:15)
Video Clip: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (12:30)
Bell Ringer: Westward Expansion: Life on the Oregon Trail (10:44)
Bell Ringer: Westward Expansion - Impact (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (17:20)
Bell Ringer: Deschutes River War (2:52)
Bell Ringer: The Cherry Industry in Salem, Oregon (5:21)
Bell Ringer: 19th Century Missionaries in Oregon (4:35)
Pennsylvania
On This Day: Gettysburg Address (4 Clips)
On This Day: George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River (4 Clips)
Video Clip: Secretary Pedro Rivera on Pennsylvania's Education Policy (5:07)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: William Penn and the Quakers (3:23)
Bell Ringer: Pennsylvania Cable Network and State Government (4:47)
Bell Ringer: US Nuclear Power and the 1979 Three Mile Island Accident (9:32)
Bell Ringer: The Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania (12:09)
Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Abolitionist William Howard Day (7:48)
Bell Ringer: Pennsylvania's Archaeological Artifacts and Early American History (6:55)
Bell Ringer: The History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol Building (11:43)
Bell Ringer: The Founding of Harrisburg (13:31)
Bell Ringer: Bell Ringer: Pennsylvania Founding Father Robert Morris (17:02)
Bell Ringer: French Influence on 1790s Philadelphia (13:16)
Bell Ringer: Philadelphia's Congress Hall (2:39)
Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and Pseudonyms (2:13)
Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac (3:44)
Bell Ringer: Inventor: Benjamin Franklin (5:05)
Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin Civil Society (2:17)
Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention (3:20)
Bell Ringer: Abraham Lincoln's Writing of the Gettysburg Address (2:47)
Bell Ringer: Battle of Gettysburg (13:19)
Bell Ringer: The French and Indian War and Pontiac's War (3:37)
Bell Ringer: Andrew Carnegie: Pittsburgh - City of Steel (9:25)
Bell Ringer: Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Eastern State Penitentiary and Early Criminal Justice (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Heinz Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (5:49)
Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Impact of the French and Indian War (8 Clips)
Puerto Rico
On This Day: Puerto Rico Commonwealth Constitution Day (4 Clips)
On This Day: The 1898 Treaty of Paris (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The History of Puerto Rico and US Citizenship (6:51)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Explorer and Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon (3:36)
Bell Ringer: History of Puerto Rico’s Economy (5:36)
Bell Ringer: Hurricane Maria Recovery in Puerto Rico (4:20)
Bell Ringer: The Political Status of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (5:14)
Lesson Plan: The Spanish-American War (9 Clips)
Rhode Island
Video Clip: RI Education commissioner Ken Wagner Discusses Education Issues (5:10)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Thomas Wilson Dorr and Rhode Island's Constitution (5:08)
Bell Ringer: Individual Rights and the Early American Colonies (3:24)
Bell Ringer: Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island (2:48)
Bell Ringer: Slavery in Rhode Island (5:26)
Bell Ringer: The Burning of the Gaspee (6:22)
Bell Ringer: Rhode Island's Constitutional Insurrection (5:06)
Bell Ringer: Surprise Visit of German U-Boat to Newport Naval War College (5:12)
South Carolina
Video Clip: SC Lieutenant Governor Kevin Bryant on State Issues (8:04)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Carolina Charter of 1663 and Self-Government (2:46)
Bell Ringer: Revolutionary War: Battle at Cowpens (6:33)
Bell Ringer: The Civil Rights Movement in Columbia, SC (7:04)
Bell Ringer: Edwards v. South Carolina (9:08)
Bell Ringer: Civil War - General Sherman's March on Columbia (10:32)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: Fort Sumter (3:19)
Bell Ringer: Blackbeard and Piracy in 18th Century (7:57)
Bell Ringer: TransAtlantic and Inter-State Slave Trade in the U.S. (6:58)
Bell Ringer: The 1828 Tariff of Abominations and Nullification (3:54)
Bell Ringer: Nullification Crisis (1:54)
Bell Ringer: Constitutional Questions of States' Rights, Secession and Slavery (5:06)
Bell Ringer: General Sherman's March on Columbia (10:39)
Bell Ringer: The Confederate Battle Flag in South Carolina (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Bob Jones University v. United States (5:33)
Bell Ringer: Jazz in Charleston, South Carolina (2:27)
South Dakota
On This Day: Mount Rushmore National Memorial (3 Clips)
On This Day: Lewis & Clark Expedition (3 Clips)
Video Clip: Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Top Policy Issues (10:58)
Video Clip: Crazy Horse Memorial (5:46)
Bell Ringer: Wildlife of the Early American West (7:21)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Book Collection (7:48)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition (10:48)
Bell Ringer: French Exploration of South Dakota (3:22)
Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition in South Dakota (7:48)
Bell Ringer: Rural South Dakota Forts (4:03)
Bell Ringer: Mount Rushmore National Memorial (9:37)
Bell Ringer: Stratobowl Balloon Flight (3:55)
Bell Ringer: Rapid City, South Dakota Flood of 1972 (6:23)
Bell Ringer: Native American Entrepreneurship on Reservations (5:47)
Bell Ringer: The History of South Dakota's State Capital (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Tennessee
On This Day: Scopes Trial (5 Clips)
Video Clip: National Civil Rights Museum Tour (30:07)
Video Clip: Overview of the Tennessee Valley Authority (4:30)
Video Clip: Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam (R) (2:04)
Bell Ringer: Beale Street and Memphis (8:05)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: Battle of Fort Donelson (2:22)
Bell Ringer: The Scopes Trial (15:40)
Bell Ringer: Chattanooga, Tennessee's Civil War History (3:42)
Bell Ringer: Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg (3:00)
Bell Ringer: Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Legal and De Facto Segregation In Memphis (4:35)
Bell Ringer: 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (7:39)
Bell Ringer: History of Cotton in Memphis (9:18)
Bell Ringer: 1866 Memphis Massacre (7:08)
Bell Ringer: President Andrew Jackson - Biography (4:16)
Bell Ringer: Tennessee Valley Authority (2:25)
Bell Ringer: Chattanooga and the Trail of Tears (4:28)
Bell Ringer: Ida B. Wells Anti-Lynching Campaign (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Last Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. (3 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Civil Rights - 1966 James Meredith March Against Fear (5 Clips)
Texas
On This Day: The Battle of the Alamo (4 Clips)
On This Day: Criminals Bonnie and Clyde Ambushed and Killed (2 Clips)
Video Clip: Indigenous People of the Great Plains (9:12)
Video Clip: San Antonio Spanish Missions (10:37)
Video Clip: Palo Duro Canyon, Texas (9:33)
Video Clip: San Antonio River Walk (4:32)
Video Clip: Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters (4:56)
Video Clip: San Antonio Military Aviation History (8:00)
Video Clip: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (12:08)
Bell Ringer: Settlement of San Antonio, Texas (7:55)
Bell Ringer: History of the Texas State Capitol (5:33)
Bell Ringer: Explorer Robert de La Salle (10:12)
Bell Ringer: The Significance of the Alamo (3:21)
Bell Ringer: Adopt-A-Highway Program (4:45)
Bell Ringer: History of Juneteenth (4:19)
Bell Ringer: Texas Independence and the 1836 Compromise (2:05)
Bell Ringer: Press Coverage of the Kennedy Assassination (6:13)
Bell Ringer: Beaumont Race Riots (3:02)
Bell Ringer: Camp Ford: Civil War Prison (5:04)
Bell Ringer: Early Wind Energy in Texas (4:50)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
Utah
Video Clip: Japanese American Archives in Salt Lake City (11:25)
Bell Ringer: Mormon Pioneers in Missouri (7:49)
Bell Ringer: Brigham Young and the Settlement of Salt Lake City (2:00)
Bell Ringer: The Transcontinental Railroad (4:39)
Bell Ringer: Westward Expansion: The Settlers' Experiences (12:28)
Bell Ringer: Railroads and Transportation: Then and Now (2 clips)
Bell Ringer: The Provo Meeting House (5:30)
Bell Ringer: Socialism in Utah (6:39)
Bell Ringer: Mormons and the End of Polygamy (5:09)
Bell Ringer: German Prisoners of War in Ogden, Utah (5:26)
Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
Vermont
Bell Ringer: Vermont and the Formation of the Green Mountain Boys (3:16)
Bell Ringer: The Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution (3:19)
Bell Ringer: Flooding in Vermont (5:08)
Bell Ringer: Maple Syrup and Vermont (6:53)
Bell Ringer: 20th Century Train Travel in Central Vermont (6:14)
Virginia
Video Clip: George Washington Tour of Alexandria, Virginia (8:32)
Video Clip: George Washington Vignette (3:27)
Video Clip: 1619 Thanksgiving at Berkeley, Virginia (12:22)
Video Clip: Former VA Governor Douglas Wilder and Term Limits (1:44)
Video Clip: Hidden History of Alexandria, Virginia (8:41)
Video Clip: Loving v. Virginia (4:15)
Bell Ringer: The First Africans Brought to Virginia (7:29)
Bell Ringer: Tobacco and Slavery in Colonial Virginia (5:37)
Lesson Plan: The Lives of Slaves in Colonial America (1 Clip)
Bell Ringer: The Nation's Capital and the Compromise of 1790 (3:40)
Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)
Bell Ringer: Colonial Williamsburg: Dissolving the House of Burgesses (6:08)
Bell Ringer: The History of Virginia's Capitol Building (17:36)
Bell Ringer: The Significance of Pocahontas in History (5:36)
Bell Ringer: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (2:34)
Bell Ringer: James Monroe's Highland (9:17)
Bell Ringer: Touring the Historic Sites of Charlottesville, Virginia (15:54)
Bell Ringer: Virginia's American and International History (17:15)
Bell Ringer: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia (11:31)
Bell Ringer: Anne Spencer and The Harlem Renaissance (5:52)
Bell Ringer: African-American Interpretation on the Political Climate (21:12)
Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Maggie Walker (14:54)
Bell Ringer: Confederate Flags and the American Civil War (16:55)
Bell Ringer: Colonial Courts (2:49)
Bell Ringer: Slaves House in Southern Virginia (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Early Life of Edgar Allen Poe in Richmond (5:44)
Washington
Video Clip: Gov. Inslee on Policy Issues in Washington State (10:20)
Bell Ringer: The American Exclave of Point Roberts, Washington (6:08)
Bell Ringer: Chinese Expulsion and Reconciliation in Washington State (6:36)
Bell Ringer: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (10:08)
Bell Ringer: Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands (17:20)
Bell Ringer: Olympic Pipeline Explosion (5:25)
Bell Ringer: Grand Coulee Dam Project (6:14)
Bell Ringer: The US-Canada Border: The Pig War in Northwest Washington (2 Clips)
West Virginia
On This Day: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (3 Clips)
Video Clip: West Virginia State Capitol (6:20)
Video Clip: Salt Industry in West Virginia (6:24)
Video Clip: West Virginia Folklore (4:45)
Bell Ringer: West Virginia Statehood and Economy (2:03)
Bell Ringer: The Raid on Harpers Ferry (5:09)
Bell Ringer: The National Road, Wheeling, West Virginia (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Immigration and Wheeling (4:24)
Bell Ringer: West Virginia Civil War Battle Flags (3:41)
Bell Ringer: Booker T Washington (11:05)
Bell Ringer: West Virginia Chemical Spill (9:41)
Wisconsin
Video Clip: Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (9:36)
Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade (9:05)
Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:20)
Bell Ringer: Socialist Party and Victor Berger (4:04)
Bell Ringer: Pullman Porters during Reconstruction (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Wisconsin Cheesemaking (3:41)
Bell Ringer: Green Bay, Wisconsin: Titletown USA (6:06)
Wyoming
On This Day: Teapot Dome Scandal (2 Clips)
Video Clip: Gov. Matt Mead (R-WY) on State Issues in Wyoming (7:07)
Video Clip: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (12:30)
Bell Ringer: Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming (7:51)
Bell ringer: Coal Mining in Wyoming (6:39)
Bell Ringer: Sheridan Wyoming Rodeo (7:15)
Bell Ringer: Wildlife of the Early American West (7:21)
Bell Ringer: Westward Expansion: The Settlers' Experiences (12:28)
Bell Ringer: The First Female Governor in the United States (5:15)
Bell Ringer: Wyoming and Women's Suffrage (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Wyoming Railroads (5:19)
Bell Ringer: Wyoming Women's Suffrage (6:32)
Bell Ringer: Establishment of Laramie, Wyoming (3:50)
Bell Ringer: J.C. Penney (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The Teapot Dome Scandal and Congressional Investigations (5 Clips)