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Now or Never: The Yorktown Campaign
Learn more about Washington's 1781 Yorktown Campaign - the last major battle of the American Revolution.
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Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
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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 satellite-delivered distance learning broadcasts. Previously broadcast programs are available to educators for free in DVD format.
To order a copy of any of the below DVDs (one each per school), please email the request with your phone number and email address on school letterhead to: FFXNetwork@fcps.edu
DVDs may also be downloaded using the links below:
The Real Martha Washington | Download |
The Music of Washington's World | Download |
The Funding of a Nation: Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton | |
Seed to Table: Farming at Mount Vernon | Download |
Slavery at Mount Vernon | Download |
Nation to Nation | Download |
Fractured Union | |
The Constitution and Executive Power | Download |
First in War: George Washington and the American Revolution | Download |
Inaugural Visions: Presidents Washington to Obama | Download |
Primarily George | Download |
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Full Episodes
Fractured Union
Slavery at Mount Vernon
Seed to Table - Farming at Mount Vernon
History Notes: The Music of Washington’s World
The Constitution and Executive Power
Nation to Nation
The Real Martha Washington
Primarily George
Funding at Nation - Washington Jeffersion and Hamilton
One Nation Under Debt
Inaugural Visions Presidents Washington to Obama
Short clips for classroom use
A series of videos around the Mount Vernon Estate from the curators and docents.
Mount Vernon's Tombs
Weaving on the Loom
How Did George Washington Make Whiskey?
The Working Gristmill
Washington's New Room at Mount Vernon
Great Artifacts of Mount Vernon: The Crib
The Archaeology of Slavery
Plowing the Fields at Mount Vernon
Upper Garden
Lower Garden
Coins, Buttons, Pottery, Arrowheads
Stories and reenactments from our Founding Fathers on the formation of our Nation.
Jefferson and Hamilton debate Federal vs. State rights
Thomas Jefferson discusses with Col. George Mason on Washington's Second Term
Economic Visions
The Annapolis Convention
The Founding Fathers and the Constitutional Convention
Founding Fathers on Foreign Affairs
Washington Resigns Commission
Washington as President
Honorable Men
National Bank
Virginia Ratification Convention
Sounds from George Washington's Time Period
Over the Hill and Far Away
No Scornful Beauty
The Old Guard
Minstrel Boy and Soldier's Joy Medley, Fife and Drum Tunes
Brandywine Quickstep, Fife and Drum Tune
Sit Down Servant, Site Down
Hoe Emma Hoe
Fungalafia
Chester by William Billings
Northfield
American Taxation by Peter St. Joh
He Comes the Hero Comes
War and Washington by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall
Over the Hills and Far Away
Fancy Minuet by Pierre Landrin Duport
The President's March by Philip Phile