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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.

  New!:
The Beginning of the End of World War I, 1918
"These thirteen Americans performed a feat never to be forgotten." Four years of stagnation on the Western Front ends as the Germans gamble on a massive offensive on the Western Front and American doughboys enter the fray.


  Photo of the Week:
Streets of the City, 1936
Selling hair tonic.


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:
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC
"The die is cast:" a river crossing that changed history.

President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
"His signature was attached to one the greatest and most beneficent military decrees of history in the presence of less than a dozen people."

Gandhi Assassinated, 1948
"Just an old man in a loincloth in distant India: Yet when he died, humanity wept."

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 >>>

  Notable Quote:
"Who controls the past controls the future."
George Orwell (1903-1950)

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