mount vernon partnership
With the generous support of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Mount Vernon and the Fairfax Network have partnered to provide schools with engaging and FREE distance learning broadcasts.
George Washington’s
Mount Vernon Estate,
Museum & Gardens
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December 10, 2007 · Grades 9-12 · 45 minutes
History Meets Hollywood discusses the positive and negative results of portraying historical figures and events through popular film.
The program features a panel of guests with backgrounds in historical study and the entertainment industry. The panelist discuss what students learn about history through popular film, how those films are used by teachers, and the merits of “dramatization” as a way to depict history. The pane, moderated by television news anchor and host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, include Dr. Libby O’Connell, Chief Historian for the History Channel, actor Sebastian Roché, who portrayed George Washington in We Fight to Be Free, and representatives from the new Disney Pictures film, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.
Sebastian Roché discusses the excitement of recreating history.
Programs
The Challenges of Nationhood: Presidential Perspectives
The Constitution and
Executive Power
First In War: George Washington and the American Revolution
Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies
Funding a Nation: Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton
Hear My Story: The Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
History Notes: The Music of Washington's World
I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person
Inaugural Visions: Presidents Washington to Obama
Seed to Table:
Farming at Mount Vernon
