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Instructional Video5:25
TED-Ed

Ugly History: Witch Hunts

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Guilty until proven innocent? A short video tackles the question of why witch hunts occur by examining the history of these purges and the tests used to identify those suspect of working with the devil.
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Instructional Video11:38
Crash Course

The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Listen as this famed speaker argues why "the real story of history is about regular people trying to take care of their families" and "small-scale dramas," particularly in the case of colonial America. Topics covered include the shift...
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Instructional Video
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Salem Witch Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation [2:41] features a closer examination and explanation behind the Salem Witch Trials.
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Instructional Video
Other

Readng Through History: The Salem Witch Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
This video provides a brief introduction to the Salem Witch Trials which accused several local women of witchcraft in 1692. [7:13]
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Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: Haunted History: 8 Episodes

For Students 9th - 10th
America is often haunted by its past, which explains why ghost stories have always been an integral part of this nation's oral history. Viewers will visit some of the darkest, scariest corners of the country -- from the battlefields of...
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Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Us History #4: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated...

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