Connections Archive Index
Past NEH-funded PBS features and other online exhibits with relevant
EDSITEment resources.
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National
Museum, Kabul
 The
nearly 230 artifacts in
this exhibit were thought to be lost forever, casualties of the years
of warfare, looting and destruction that followed the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan in 1979 and the rise of the Taliban in 1996. Instead most
of them had been secretly hidden in crates in the Central Bank within
the presidential palace in Kabul.
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Camelot!
 Beginning
on May 8, 2008, PBS stations will be broadcasting a new concert
version of the musical about King
Arthur and his kingdom Camelot. The EDSITEment lesson Exploring
Arthurian Legend surveys the stories surrounding Arthur from their
beginnings in the oral tradition in Medieval Europe, through the Renaissance
and Victorian England, and concludes with T. H. White's modern retelling
The Once and Future King which was the basis of the Lerner and
Lowe musical. EDSITEment has other
related lesson plans as well.
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Was this Atlantis?
 The
PBS series "Secrets of the Dead" aired Sinking
Atlantis, about the Minoan civilization that is the original source
of the Atlantis legend. One theory is that the final blow to a declining
Minoan civilization was a volcanic eruption, as happened with Roman Pompeii.
EDSITEment has a lesson plan on Pompeii,
and another one on Greek
Mythology, a period contemporaneous with the Minoans. Study other
Minoan contemporaries with the lesson plans on Egypt’s
Pyramids, and Ancient
Mesopotamia, and view Minoan artifacts from the EDSITEment-reviewed
Timeline of
Art History.
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The Presidents
 The
Presidents, part of the American Experience series
on PBS, explores the lives and times of the individuals who have held
the highest office in the land. One can look at the presidency in the
20th century and through its office see the drama of contemporary America—war,
economic hardship, women's rights, race relations, our triumphs and our
tragedies—it is all there.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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American Experience: Walt Whitman
 This
program, about the life and work of the poet Walt Whitman, partially funded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will be available to
watch online. EDSITEment lesson plans Walt
Whitman's Poetry and Notebooks: The Sweep of the Universe and Walt
Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy will introduce students
to one of the most compelling voices of the 19th century.
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American Masters: Zora Neale Hurston
 American
Masters: Zora
Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. The program offers an
introduction to the writer who many consider the pre-eminent African American
woman novelist of her generation. The American Master website provides
a career timeline, photographs, and additional footage from the film.
An important letter from Hurston to the poet Countee Cullen on race relations
in America is also included as are links to related websites. EDSITEment's
lesson on Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God focuses
on the way the writer incorporated folklore traditions into her literary
masterpiece.
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“The War” on PBS
— A Ken Burns Film
 The
War is a seven-part documentary, partially funded by NEH, directed
and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and tells the story of the
Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and
women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the
most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history -
a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every
street in every town in America - and demonstrates that in extraordinary
times, there are no ordinary lives.
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