Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250 videos
Wow, I’m eight weeks late to the party on this one. I’ve just learned that Heather Cox Richardson is producing 250 one-minute videos to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
“We designed these to emphasize the agency of Americans — mostly everyday Americans — to change the country. Each falls into a category that defines what it means to be an American, including community, democracy, innovation, mobility, civil rights, education, conservation, and creativity,” she says.
About a dozen videos come out each week. Week eight includes “Great Crash of 1929 Narrated by Paul Krugman”; “Barney Ford [a Black entrepreneur in Colorado who fought for the 15th Amendment] Narrated by Representative Joe Neguse”; “Advent of Bebop, Narrated by Rick Perlstein”; and “Presidential Election of 1980, Narrated by Ben Rhodes.”
You can follow the videos at a variety of sites that Richardson lists here.
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