Abraham Lincoln - one of America's most-famous presidents - left behind many words, although no one today is able to hear his actual voice.
Chapter 10 - After her visit to Boston, Helen and her teacher went on holiday to Cape Cod.
By the later part of 1939, Orson Welles and his Mercury-Theatre-on-the-Air players were sponsored by Campbell Soup.
Edgar Allan Poe published a poem entitled "Imitation," in 1827.
Mark Twain published his famous book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in Britain (in December of 1884) and in America (in February of 1885).
After he leaves the house, around midnight, Huck Finn joins his buddy, Tom Sawyer.
Huck Finn's father - whom his boy calls "Pap" - has not been in his son's life for awhile.
Huck Finn is sceptical about many things, but he is also a realist.
Huck Finn has a father who beats him.
In William Shakespeare's opinion, the life of a person - who lives to old age - consists of seven stages.
"Annabel Lee" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most-famous poems.
William Blake (1757-1827) was a young man, in his late teens, when he witnessed the "Gordon Riots" in London.
On its mission to the Moon, Apollo 13 encountered a near-fatal situation.
Combining many different clips from the horror-filled day of November 22, 1963, Mike Swickey created this radio documentary about President Kennedy'...
Not knowing whether there was a conspiracy behind the death of President Kennedy, officials initially delayed the formal announcement of his death.
Helen visited the Perkins Institute for the Blind in May of 1888.
Have a listen as Charles Dickens begins his famous story with these words: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
As the action begins, in Dickens' famous tale, the Dover mail coach is making its way on a Friday night.
Jerry Cruncher, the messenger, is bothered by the direction he's received from Jarvis Lorry: "Jerry, say that my answer was, RECALLED TO LIFE.
After Jarvis Lorry reaches Dover, he awaits the arrival of another traveler from London - Miss Manette.
Orson Welles and Martin Gabel star in this Mercury Theatre on the Air production of Charles Dicken's novel, A Tale of Two Cities.
During the summer of 1886, Helen and her parents visited a famous Baltimore physician.
In this video, founder Carole Bos shows how the evidence-based stories work.
A short video overview of AwesomeStories
Short Video Overview of AwesomeStories MakerSpace
A short video overview of AwesomeStories MakerSpace
This video show how to find interesting information not readily apparent.
Jonathan Harker has realized .
Bram Stoker based his novel, Dracula, on the legend of a real person, Vlad Tepes.
Mina Murray and her friend - Lucy Westenra - have traveled to the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England.
When diplomatic efforts between Britain and Germany failed to end Hitler's attack on Poland - in early September, 1939 - Neville Chamberlain (the Br...
Cowboys of the "Old West" sang songs about their work (and the trouble they got into). This is an example.
Churchill tried repeatedly to convince FDR to enter the war.
On the 5th of March, 1946, Winston Churchill was worried about the spread of Joseph Stalin's power throughout Europe.
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on the 10th of May, 1940.
On the 16th of October, 1938, Winston Churchill broadcast a speech urging both his country, and America, to arm themselves.
On the 4th of June, 1940, Winston Churchill addressed Parliament.
"Cite Right" a video to show how to give sources and creators of great content the credit they deserve!
After the shuttle Columbia was lost, during the STS-107 mission, President George W.
Although C.S. Lewis was frequently "on the air" during World War II, the BBC has very few surviving broadcasts.
During World War II, C.
This C.S. Lewis audio clip is from the BBC Series "Beyond Personality.
William Wordsworth, an English poet who served as Britain's Poet Laureate between 1843-1850, was greatly inspired by nature.
Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.
Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...
Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942. At the time, German forces were...
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942. At the time, German forces were...
Seamus Heaneywas long known as "Famous Seamus" in his homeland.
Dylan Thomas was distraught, in 1951, as his father - David John Thomas - was gravely ill.
Not normally a writer of poetry - or anything else as a published author - Mary Elizabeth Frye (an American who lived in Baltimore) was moved by the s...
Orson Welles, and his Mercury Theatre troupe, brought Bram Stoker's story of Dracula to the radio.
On the 9th of September, 1939, the BBC aired this broadcast on the evacuation of Britain's school children.
On the 8th of December, 1941 - the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed - Americans received their up-to-date news from the radio.
In his first inaugural address, which remains one of the most famous in American history, President Franklin D.
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - who married the poet Percy Shelley later that year - was visiting Lord Byron at his rented villa i...
Three years have passed since Victor Frankenstein created his monster.
After Victor Frankenstein refuses to create a female companion for his creature, the scientist learns just how murderously violent his monster can be.
Secretary of the Interior, at the outbreak of war with Germany in 1917, Franklin Lane was outspoken in his support of the fight.
A quick look at how GALAXY Classroom works
During the Great Depression, Americans were starving.
When she wasn't reading, Helen loved to be outside.
Still preparing for college, Helen attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies.
For two years, as Helen continued her college-prep work, she studied at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York.
Until Helen was 13, Annie Sullivan worked with her student on the basics: How to finger-spell, how to read (in Braille and raised type) and how to spe...
Although her father had been married before, and Helen had two step-brothers, she was the first girl in the family and her mother's first child.
Even though she'd made great progress, Helen was frustrated because she could not speak.
As a child of the South, Helen had not experienced snow before the winter of 1889.
Helen loved to read.
In the fall of 1900, Helen Keller became the first blind-deaf college student.
In the last chapter of her book, Helen thanks many people who have helped her along the way.
After the controversy about "The Frost King," Helen returned to her family in Tuscumbia.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was already a famous writer when she met, then married, Robert Browning.
An overview of the concept of white privilege
This video reviews the important steps in developing a great story.
Although the Library of Congress has a treasure trove of pictures, documents, audio/visual clips and other primary and secondary sources, it is not ea...
Video overview of AwesomeStories Archive search methods.
Still the youngest-ever Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rudyard Kipling was enormously popular during his lifetime.
A Waikiki Elementary School 4th grader created a story in AwesomeStories and shared her thoughts.
This audio clip, from the National Archives, is the swearing-in and inaugural address of John F.
In spite of censorship in her time, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) remains one of Russia's most-loved poets of the 20th century.
In spite of censorship in her time, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) remains one of Russia's most-loved poets of the 20th century.
Until 1917, James W.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bront (1816-1855), remains popular even though it was first published in October of 1847.
Charlotte Bront once served as a governess at Stone Grappe Hall.
In Chapter III, of Jane Eyre, Mr.
Reporters were unsure of the President's condition at Parkland Hospital as they tried to keep the public informed of events.
On the evening of October 22, 1962, President Kennedy shocked the country when he reported the Soviet Union was installing ballistic missiles in Cuba.
CBS IS THERE (later, YOU ARE THERE) was an "old-time radio" program where CBS "reporters" and "correspondents" dramatized important historical events ...
Orson Welles adopted Shakespeare's famous play - Julius Caesar - for the stage in 1937.
Thomas ("Daddy") Rice created a character ("Jim Crow") which he incorporated into his popular minstrel show.
Helen Keller never enjoyed math, and she found learning algebra and geometry particularly hard.
Once she recognized things and actions had names, Helen needed to comprehend abstract subjects.
In her early days of learning, Anne and Helen worked outside.
Lehua, a young noble Hawaiian comes of age, the preface.
Les Miserables is a massive novel, by Victor Hugo, perennially considered one of the world's best books.
Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, for the radio.
This is episode two of Les Miserables.
In the third episode of Orson Welles' adaptation of Les Miserable, Jean Valjean is mayor of a French town.
When her mother (Fantine) dies, a young girl named Cosette has no parents.
Jean Valjean eludes Javert and his team of policemen.
In 1832, Javert and the police are concerned about young Parisians who are angry with the government.
Surviving the barricade battles, Marius decides to marry Cosette.
Jean Valjean is the central character of Victor Hugo's ever-popular Les Miserables, but we don't really "meet him" until "Book Second" of Volume I.
Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...
After the Bishop of Digne shows kindness to Jean Valjean, providing him with food and allowing him to spend the night without pay, Valjean steals the ...
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter VI (entitled "Father Fauchelevent").
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter VII (entitled "Fauchelevent Becomes a Garden...
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter XIII (entitled "The Solution of some Questio...
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Sixth ("Javert") - Chapter I (entitled "The Beginning of Repose").
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Sixth ("Javert") - Chapter II (entitled "How Jean May Become Champ").
After Helen understood that things had names - and she could learn those names from her teacher's finger-spelling - her vocabulary grew.
Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.
Chapter 40, of Little Women, is one of the saddest chapters in the story.
Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.
Vacationing with her family in the mountains near Tuscumbia, Helen experienced the joys of childhood: riding a pony, hunting for persimmons and explor...
Anne Sullivan, a young teacher with her own vision problems, arrived at the Keller home in early March of 1887.
Movers and Shakers video from Galaxy Classrooms
This radio play, starring Orson Welles as Captain Bligh, was broadcast via the Campbell Playhouse on January 13, 1939.
NOTES from UNDERGROUNDBy Fyodor DostoevskyTranslation by Andrew R.
Dostoevsky worked on Notes from Underground in 1863.
O Captain! My Captain!
How does a city, hosting the modern Olympics, do something special for their games? The people of Beijing produced opening and c...
Scholars believe the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - which he called "Ozymandias" - was inspired by a statue of the young Ramesses I...
During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.
During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.
Alvar Liddell, a BBC reporter on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, told the world what had happened.
A news report during the attack, broadcast by a reporter for KGU in Honolulu, reports that "this battle has been going on for nearly three hours.
The attack by Japan was "unprovoked" and "dastardly," to use President Roosevelt's words.
Americans were shocked to learn about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Carole Bos, founder and Chief Creative Officer at AwesomeStories provides background about the site and its mission.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Samuel Gompers was head of the AFL union when he gave a speech in support of America's involvement in World War I.
Before he was known as Lord Byron, the still-famous poet was called George Gordon.
This "unsolved crime" radio show - "Somebody Knows" - was aired by the Columbia Broadcasting Company.
Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of Augus...
In this audio-clip, we hear the Star-Spangled Banner as it would have sounded in 1854.
The words of Francis Scott Key's poem (The Star-Spangled Banner) were set to the music of a popular English tune known as To Anacreon in Heaven.
Until she was nearly seven, Helen could not communicate with anyone except by her own sign language.
Taps is a 24-note bugle call which marks one of two events: It signals that all unauthorized lights must be extinguished. This is the l...
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales to Norwegian parents.
Edmund Dantes - unjustly convicted of helping the former (now-exiled) ruler of France (Napoleon Bonaparte) - escapes from his own imprisonment.
When she was 11, Helen wrote a story she thought was her own, and "The Frost King" was published by the director of the Perkins Institute.
Alfred Noyes - a British poet born in 1880, who was extremely popular during his lifetime - wrote a lyrical story about a doomed highwayman and Bess (...
At the age of seven, Helen Keller experienced her first real Christmas.
William Butler (W.B.) Yeats wrote the poem which consistently tops the list of Ireland's favorite poems.
This audio clip, in which Theodore Roosevelt talks about social and industrial justice, is from "A Confession of Faith," an address which TR originall...
Although he made very little money from this work, Edgar Allan Poe became famous after he wrote - and published - "The Raven.
The second production of the Mercury Theatre on the Air was Treasure Island.
On the 30th of October, 1938, Orson Welles - through his Mercury Theatre on the Air - broadcast an adapted, radio dramatization of the novel, War of t...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born 21 years after the United States Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" - between whites and people of...
