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What is a 'Multimedia History'?
Unlike a traditional encyclopedia entry or journal article, which is largely text-based, a multimedia history blends images, audio, video and graphics with text.

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We have three new Multimedia Histories presented in streaming video: This is the Enemy, The Louisiana Purchase and Responses to Immigration

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Exhibitions

eHistory has 24 MultiMedia Histories presented as exhibitions with text and images.

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Videos

eHistory has 3 MultiMedia Histories presented as short videos.

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Course Projects

eHistory has 6 MultiMedia Histories developed as course projects in the Department of History at OSU under Professor Judy Wu.

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MULTIMEDIA VIDEOS
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This is the Enemy
This is the Enemy investigates the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the second World War; streaming video (Flash) or Windows Media Video download (7.7MB)
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The Louisiana Purchase in the Age of Revolution
In April of 1803 the United States acquired more than eight hundred thousand square miles of territory from France in what has come to be known as the largest real estate transaction in history. France’s cession of the Louisiana territory nearly doubled the size of the United States and guaranteed America’s economic and physical expansion across the Mississippi River Valley and beyond.
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Responses to Immigration
Since the 1880s, immigration patterns have changed in a number of ways, but what about Americans’ responses to immigration? This video examines the various reactions to newcomers around the turn of the century and during the world wars. It also urges the viewer to compare present-day responses to those of earlier times
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