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Recording history one story at a time
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History Heard is building a vast tapestry of modern American
history and now modern world history by creating thousands of
video interviews with first person witnesses to events. The project is entirely created and managed by high school and middle school
students. The purpose is to bridge the ever-widening gap between
teachers who are bound exclusively to printed text for
historical research and a generation of students who are increasingly
comfortable with a video format. The videos are created according
to a firm set of standards that preserve their value as primary source
material and the safety of the students involved.
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Featured Video
Recently the
Nixon Presidential Museum released several new documents to the public.
One of them is the very first White House memo about a young Washington
Post reporter, Bob Woodward, who had uncovered a story which they
feared might bring down the Nixon administration. Watch our interview
with former Post managing editor, Len Downie, as he talks about
supervising Woodward and Bernstein during Watergate!
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To see more history come to life, visit our Videos page!
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Breaking News
October 2011 - We don't know if it was a teacher planning a lesson, a student working on a project, or just somebody interested in history, but somebody somewhere watched one of our videos and became the 25,000th upload view! Thank you to the interviewees, interviewers and everybody who has helped make History Heard what it is today.
September 2011 - With more than 10,000 attendees, the FETC is the nation's largest, most popular, and most respected Ed Tech conference. As the director of History Heard, Amy has been invited to present at the FETC conference in Orlando this January and introduce History Heard to educators from around the world. It is the first time in recent memory that a high school student has been invited to make a presentation at the conference.
August 2011 - Classroom teachers across America consider the "Big Deal Book" to be a valuable and respected resource. With more than 50,000 subscribers, it's newsletter is one of the most popular and highly regarded in all of education. On August 15, 2011, the Big Deal Book featured History Heard on their "Worth-the-Surf" Web Site section! [Link]
July 2011 - History Heard is now on Facebook! Like us at the bottom of this page.
June 2011 - Lithuanian correspondent Aiste presents History Heard to history professors at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
April 2011 - History Heard videos break 20,000 views!
February 2011 - History Heard foreign correspondent Aiste is invited to present her plan to chronicle Lithuanian history to the Lithuanian Ambassador and a meeting of the entire Consular corps.
January 2011 - History Heard founder Amy attends the annual meeting of the American Historical Association and updates supporters.
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First person accounts of past generations are lost everyday. History Heard has created a way to preserve those stories. Video interviews provide a firsthand look at history from the people who were there. The videos can be used as interesting primary sources for students.
For centuries, knowledge and wisdom have been passed down from older generations to younger ones. Somehow in our fast-paced world, we've lost this tradition. It's time not only to bring it back but to improve it. The stories that people share can now be heard and seen all over the world at the click of a button.
Everyone has a relative or friend or knows of a local nursing home where they can sit down and talk to someone with an amazing experience that is waiting to be shared with the world. Everyone has a story.
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