WTK S1:E9 “How Did YOUR Ancestors Achieve Success Here in America? Part 2”
(Chapter 4 page 49 of Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution) Listen Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_RMf7wijg Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids. Questions: 1. What obstacles do you think Joseph Marion Hernandez (1788-1857) worked hard to overcome to be America’s first Hispanic U.S. Congressman? 2. What obstacles do you think Dr. Feng Shan Ho (1901-1997) worked hard to overcome to save over 1,000 Jews when Hitler’s Nazis occupied Austria? 3. What obstacles do you think John Moses Browning (1855-1926) worked hard to overcome to earn a total of 128 [...]
WTK S1:E8 “How Did YOUR Ancestors Achieve Success Here in America?“ Part 1”
Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/61yUIE9ZDsY Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids Questions: 1. How did our early American ancestors use the American gift of Liberty to own land, get an education, live in peace, and rise out of poverty, etc.? 2. What obstacles do you think Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919) worked hard to overcome to be America’s first female self-made millionaire? 3. What obstacles do you think Pfc. Herbert K. Pililaau (1928-1951) worked hard to overcome to be America’s first Hawaiian to receive the Medal of Honor? 4. [...]
WTK S1:E7 “Slavery: Did Everyone Who Came to America Want to Come?”
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGY3HJvlo0 Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids With Billy Eagle and Colonel John Eidsmoe! Questions: 1. In addition to Africans, what other groups of people were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean and sold as slaves in the Americas? 2. Why was it important for America to become free and independent from the government of Great Britain before America could progress toward the abolishment of slavery? 3. Of all the men, women, and children enslaved between 1519–1867, did the majority of them come to North [...]
WTK S1:E6 “The American Citizenship Test: How Many Questions Can YOU Answer?!” Part 1
Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uuauKwdGbjg Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids With Billy Eagle and Colonel John Eidsmoe! Questions: What is the purpose of the American Citizenship Test? How many total questions are there on the American Citizenship Sample Test? How many questions are you asked to answer when applying for citizenship? How many questions must you answer correctly in order to become a citizen of the United States of America? How many can YOU answer correctly today?!
WTK S1:E5 “Emma Lazarus: Why Should Every American Know Her?”
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mkduHNBJ8Q Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids With Billy Eagle and Colonel John Eidsmoe! Questions: 1. What connection does Emma Lazarus have to the Statue of Liberty? 2. How old was she when she made a difference in America by writing “The New Colossus”? 3. What is “The New Colossus” about? 4. Was there an “old colossus”? 5. How did Emma exemplify compassion? 6. Why are statues and monuments of our American history and heritage important to preserve?
WTK S1:E4 “The Statue of Liberty: What Challenges Were Overcome To Create Her?”
Listen on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIuWCpRgo5s Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten America Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids Daniel, Jack, and Henry interview General Grant!Intro by WTK Daniel with American Minute, Bill Federer. Questions: 1. What metal was used to create the outside of the Statue of Liberty? Why?2. What two coins sandwiched together can show us the thickness of Liberty’s exterior “skin”?3. What metal was used to make a “skeleton” inside the Statue of Liberty to hold up her exterior copper skin?4. What do the Statue of Liberty in America and the Eiffel Tower [...]
WTK S1:E3 “The Statue of Liberty: What Are the Stories Behind Her Creation?”
Page 25 from "Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution" https://youtu.be/S88Kwer99Hw Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Wallace Nuttall talk about the Statue of Liberty and WTK Liberty Player Kids Daniel, Jack, and Henry Interview General Grant. Intro by WTK Daniel with American Minute, Bill Federer. Questions: How did we get the Statue of Liberty? How can ONE person can make a difference – a man, a woman, even a child?
WTK S1:E2 “Your Forgotten Story: Why Did YOUR Ancestors Come to America?”
(Chapter 4 page 45 of Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution) Listen in Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/WF7SPNS1ZFU Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall with The "WTK Liberty Player Kids"; Daniel, Jack, Henry Interview General Grant. Intro by WTK Daniel with American Minute, Bill Federer. Questions: Why did your ancestors come to America? Your own parents? Your grandparents? Or your great grandparents, or great-great-grandparents? Did they find what they were looking for? If they did not come here by choice, why did they stay in America?
WTK S1:E1 “To Millions of Americans: Why Should You Know About Ellis Island?”
(Chapter 3 page 35 of Forgotten American Stories: Celebrating America’s Constitution) https://youtu.be/49q7fB2SGwY Listen: Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten America Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids Daniel, Jack, and Henry interview General Grant! Intro by We The Kid Liberty Player Daniel with American Minute Bill Federer! Questions: 1. What is Ellis Island? 2. Where is it? Can you go there today? 3. Why is it significant? 4. Most immigrants could only afford passage to America in the steerage section of a ship. Where was the steerage section and why was it called that? 5. [...]