Purpose-Built: Backyard Architecture
Backyard structures bespeak a separate history. Author Mike Olmert shares his study of outbuildings.
Fifes and Drums: The Instruments
Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums introduces the instruments designed to be heard under cannon fire and over musket volleys. Learn the history of their distinctive sound with Amy Miller and members of the Senior Fife and Drum Corps.
Civil War Williamsburg
Williamsburg's streets are rich with the history of two wars.
Clocked
Submerged under seven feet of floodwater in a small Kansas City cafe, this clock quietly documented the rising tide of one of the most destructive events in the history of the central plains.
Funston's Flu
Disease was the worst enemy during World War I. In this podcast we examine a quarantine sign used in Bushong, Kansas, during the greatest pandemic in history.
A Civilized Bookcase
This bookcase symbolizes a tragic period in Native American history. Were the missionaries who used it trying to improve the lives of their Indian pupils or wipe out their culture?
Handheld technology: the basics
A brief history of handheld computers and a look at how they work, including a look at operating systems and input and output devices.
Kansas Veterans Remember: World War II
Participants in the Kansas Veterans of WW II Oral History Project, sponsored by the Kansas State Legislature, remember their service in the European and Pacific Theaters during the Second World War. This podcast features the reminiscences of Captain William W. Seitz, of Allen, Kansas, a pilot in the Army Air Core who flew missions out of North Africa and Victor A. McAtee, of Lyons, Kansas, who along with some 30,000 US Marines, aided in the capture of Iwo Jima.
A World of Mexican Masks, #2 Masks of Mexico Audio Tour
Upon entering the exhibition, visitors see a wall full of masks. This outstanding mask collection continues to fascinate people. Meet Zarco Guerrero, a mask maker and educator living in Mesa, Arizona, who serves as our guide for the tour. Museum staff members discuss the allure of the masks, some history of the collection and how the museum works to preserve the masks. Hear from exhibit designer and co-curator Davison Koenig, exhibit co-curator Diane Dittemore, and conservator Teresa Moreno.
A World of Mexican Masks, #2 (enhanced) Masks of Mexico Audio Tour
Upon entering the exhibition, visitors see a wall full of masks. This outstanding mask collection continues to fascinate people. Meet Zarco Guerrero, a mask maker and educator living in Mesa, Arizona, who serves as our guide for the tour. Museum staff members discuss the allure of the masks, some history of the collection and how the museum works to preserve the masks. Hear from exhibit designer and co-curator Davison Koenig, exhibit co-curator Diane Dittemore, and conservator Teresa Moreno.
The Casasola Archives and the First Social Revolution
UA Professor of History William Beezley discusses the Casasola archive as a window on the world's first social revolution.
Crystalizing Our Future
Departmental Assistant Stephanie Gibson on the history of the ROM and its relationship to the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.
Measuring the Waters
Students will discuss and understand measurement of a single event and measurement over time. After listening to excerpts from an oral history with Earl Cavenaugh, a survivor of Hurricane Floyd, students will understand how people devised ways of keeping measurements during that flood and earlier floods.
Interstate Highways From the Ground Up
This lesson gives students a first-hand opportunity to hear about the planning and effort it takes to build a highway through an oral history of a North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) resident engineer. Through his oral history, students will learn about "the largest single construction project in the history of the NCDOT." That project is also known as the I-26 corridor in Madison County, North Carolina. This lesson encourages students to think about the enormous impact of highwa
Deptartment of Museum Volunteers - Celebrating 50 Years
A look inside the history of the ROM's most valuable resource, the Department of Museum Volunteers, a group of individuals passionately dedicated to sharing their love of the ROM with museum patrons, who celebrated their 50th anniversary in October of 2007.
Chief Sitting Bull's Headdress
Chief Sitting Bull was a great leader, a holy man and a central character in North American history. Discover the story as the headdress, shirt and other personal artifacts Sitting Bull once wore are brought out of the ROM's vaults and prepared for temporary display in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples (beginning September 13, 2008).
Celebrating the ROM
Renaissance ROM became the most successful cultural fundraising campaign in Canadian history with over $282 million raised in support of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Stations of Light
Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a magnifying glass works, students see how the orientation of an image changes with the distance of the lens from its focal point. They also discover how a prism works by refracting light and making rainbows. And, students investigate the polar nature of light usin
Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders
In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. Hockfield, a neuroscientist by training, recaps the evolution of the discipline at MIT, from its 1964 start in the Department of Psychology to the more recent establishment of the Depar
Introduction Most of us today take photographs for our family albums. The lucky ones among us have also inherited family photographs from the past. These photographs provide another type of record that can offer insights into our family history. But what can they tell us? How can we elicit the information they hold? And how do we analyse or evaluate that information? The purpose of this unit is to suggest how to approach the interpretation of the photographic record. Please keep referring to your ow
