Broadcasting, Education, News, Pageant of America, WHEF Updates
Witnessing History was notified on May 28, 2020 that its most recent production, “In the Declaration All Men are Created Equal:” Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, 1830 to 1860, has been awarded 2020 Silver Telly Awards in two categories: “History Documentary” and “General Documentary.” . WHEF is extraordinarily proud; the Silver Telly is the highest award […]
Franklin, just south of Nashville, is a beautiful Tennessee town. On November 30, 1864, during the Nashville campaign in the American Civil War, the people and the land were impacted forever by a ferocious battle. Some say the attacking Confederate forces were larger in number than those involved Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. A heroine who […]
Broadcasting, Education, News, Pageant of America
In other amazing news, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, is sponsoring the broadcast of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois on the eleven PBS affiliates in Illinois! Joseph Crane, the Public Relations Director at the museum called Kent Masterson Brown, WHEF’s President and CEO, to notify him of this fact, and to […]
Women in the American South during the Civil War offer a valuable perspective on war that is often overlooked. Southern women, slave and free, have a unique experience in the American historical landscape. They are the only women who experienced the Civil War, not as combatants, but by living in an occupied territory, the Southern […]
Education, Episodes American history, history
Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor discusses with Kent Masterson Brown the fascinating stories of the legal ambiguities surrounding slaves during the Civil War, especially in Union-occupied Central Kentucky. Dr. Taylor is a Professor of History at the University of Kentucky where she was honored with a “Great Teacher Award” from the U.K. Alumni Association. Dr. Taylor’s […]
Broadcasting, Education, News, Support, WHEF Updates
The following is a letter of support from Kentucky Educational Television composed on January 30, 2018: I am writing to express KET Education’s support for The Pageant of America project proposed by the Witnessing History Education Foundation, Inc., which will create documentaries and educational materials relating to American history from colonial times through the Civil […]
Broadcasting, Education, News, Pageant of America, Support
The following letter of support for the Pageant of America Documentary Series Project was composed by Kentucky Educational Television on December 12, 2017: I am writing to express KET’s support for the production The Pageant of America, the proposed eight documentaries from Witnessing History Education Foundation which will provide a comprehensive look on the early […]
