18301. Why Johnny reads junk (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Maria Piers names some of the reasons children should read. She explores what books are best for different age groups and delves into reasons children do not read..

18302. Why Money (Voluntary Exchange) (20:37)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and sp...

18303. Why study foreign languages? (11:00)

Date:
1949
Summary:
When a young man returns from Europe, where he has been on a business trip, he tells how a knowledge of a foreign language has been advantageous to him. Pictures his younger brother gaining an int...

18305. Why use Digital Methods in Arts & Humanities Research? (1:01:00)

Date:
August 26, 2022
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi; Vanessa Elias
Summary:
A hands-on workshop on approaches and tools for digital research. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to approaches and tools for conducting digital arts and humanities research. We will begi...

18306. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Classrooms? (58:16)

Date:
September 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collab...

18307. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities? (55:36)

Date:
September 12, 2019
Main contributors:
Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:
Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts &...

18308. Why War (00:13)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Ron Osgood
Summary:
North Vietnamese Government Worker Nguyen Xuan Lien wonders what good the war did with so many deaths on both sides.

18310. Why We Laugh (29:37)

Date:
1956
Summary:
Outlines and discusses various theories of humor, and presents examples of laughter created to illustrate each theory. Shows, through the use of a polygraph, that physiological changes occur in var...

18341. Wilderness encampment (27:57)

Date:
1973
Summary:
Follows the activities of a group of international Girl Scouts at a wilderness encampment in an Oregon national forest. Shows how they prepare for and take a five-day hike into the Three Sisters' W...

18342. Wilkinson Blades "Poem" (00:59)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
Wilkinson
Summary:
A narrator recites a couple of lines from the Charge of the Light Brigade and recounts how throughout British military history soldiers carried a Wilkinson sword. The narrator then states how Wilki...

18343. Wilkinson's Blades "Museum" (00:59)

Date:
1967
Main contributors:
Wilkinson's
Summary:
A tour of a museum reveals the prominent figures and soldiers that have carried Wilkinson swords throughout history. A narrator explains that Wilkinson’s tradition of quality sword making has carri...

18344. Will Counts, MS'54 (01:32)

Date:
2011
Main contributors:
Counts, Will, 1931-2001
Summary:
I. Wilmer “Will” Counts, MS’54 (Education) and EdD’67, captured images of unrest during the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that still influence civil rights discussions toda...

18345. Will Europe ever unite? (29:10)

Date:
1955
Summary:
A Swiss student declares that he would be willing to have his country give up its traditional neutrality, if it would help to unify Europe, during this discussion. He cautions, however, that the pu...

18346. Will He or Won't He? (Distrust) (19:36)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 12 of Looking From The Inside/Out series shows why it is often difficult to trust others, especially someone who consistently breaks promises. Promotes stress-management skills, such as see...

18347. William Abraham (29:48)

Date:
1964
Summary:
Presents Nkosi and Soyinka in Accra interviewing Professor Abraham, philosopher and author of The Mind of Africa. Focuses in detail on the function of the writer in Africa.

18354. William Carlos Williams (28:52)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Documents the life and work of William Carlos Williams, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, and physician. Illustrates his work with selected readings from letters, poems, and the autobiography of the poe...

18361. William Chaney History of the Ku Klux Klan (34:20)

Date:
197X
Main contributors:
Chaney, William M.
Summary:
A discussion between unidentified host (William Spaulding?) and William Chaney, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Chaney describes the history and naming of the Klan, its current activit...

18368. William Harris Interview (2:03:58)

Date:
May 4, 2023
Main contributors:
William Harris; Vivianne Crowley; Michigan City Public Library
Summary:
"Getting There: Oral Histories about transportation in Michigan City" is a series of oral histories, focusing on the railroads and aviation in Michigan City. This project was initiated and adminis...

18371. William Mihay (39:43)

Date:
June 18, 2009
Main contributors:
Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial

18373. William Plater (42:19)

Date:
February 1, 2018
Main contributors:
Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial

18388. Willie Mays last homerun in Polo Grounds (02:27)

Date:
May 5, 1963
Main contributors:
Mays, Willie, 1931-2024; Nelson, Lindsey; Cisco, Galen
Summary:
Willie Mays hits his 373rd, ML homer for San Francisco at New York (NL) off of Galen Cisco and it will be his lastç homer ever hit in the Polo Grounds- Lindsey Nelson " Game played at The Polo Gro...

18390. Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker (07:50)

Date:
August 18, 2015
Summary:
Folklorist Jon Kay made this short documentary for the exhibition, "Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker." The exhibit explored the work of Viki Graber a willow basketmaker from Goshen, Indiana. V...

18391. Willys Jeep "Natural Resources" (01:01)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Jeep
Summary:
A man receives a distress call from someone stuck on the side of a cliff. The man race across difficult terrain in his Jeep. The man rescues the person from cliff by using the winch on his Jeep.

18392. Willys Jeep "Safari" (01:05)

Date:
1962
Main contributors:
Jeep
Summary:
The commercial shows which Jeeps were used in the movie "Hatari!". The commercial portrays the different Jeeps as actors that were cast for specific roles and worked with the movie stars John Wayne...

18393. Wilson, T. Kelly, IU Center for Art and Design (31:55)

Date:
July 31, 2016
Main contributors:
Wilson, T. Kelly; Shanahan, James; Cummings, Janae
Summary:
“I have yet to meet the person I can’t teach to draw,” T. Kelly Wilson tells Through the Gates host Jim Shanahan in this week’s episode. Wilson is an architect and director of the Indiana Universit...

18394. Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game (1:16:52)

Date:
March 2, 1962
Main contributors:
Chamberlain, Wilt, 1936-1999; New York Knicks (Basketball team); Philadelphia Warriors (Basketball team)
Summary:
Wilt Chamberlain achieves a remarkable feat by scoring 100 points in a single NBA game, setting a new single-game scoring record in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

18396. WIM | How Has COVID-19 Affected Job Markets Worldwide? (1:08:00)

Date:
February 26, 2021
Main contributors:
Dr. Kosali Simon; Dr. Coady Wing
Summary:
This presentation starts by discussing how COVID-19 has affected job markets worldwide, key questions, methods, and data sources used. I will then focus on the research my colleagues and I have con...

18397. WIM | Statistical models for forecasting American elections (1:01:00)

Date:
October 9, 2020
Main contributors:
G. Elliott Morris
Summary:
G. Elliott Morris is a data journalist at The Economist and writes mostly about American politics and elections, usually by engaging in a close study of political science, political polling and dem...

18398. WIM | Technical Forecasting of Political Conflict (1:19:00)

Date:
November 13, 2020
Main contributors:
Dr. Philip Schrodt
Summary:
Over the past couple of decades, technical models, both statistical, machine learning and combinations of these methods, for forecasting various forms of political conflict, including protest, viol...

18399. WIM | Text Mining in Python for Social Scientists (1:46:00)

Date:
October 23, 2020
Main contributors:
Helge-Johannes Marahrens
Summary:
Textual data are central to the social sciences. However, they often require several pre-processing steps before they can be utilized for statistical analyses. This workshop introduces a range of P...

18400. WIM | Webscraping and APIs Using Python for Social Scientists (1:50:00)

Date:
September 18, 2020
Main contributors:
Helge-Johannes Marahrens; Anne Kavalerchik
Summary:
In recent years, social scientists have increased their efforts to access new datasets from the web or from large databases. An easy way to access such data are Application Programming Interfaces (...