Amor Sciendi
NightHawks with HipHughesHistory
Edward Hopper creates a very particular feeling with his 1942 work NightHawks, and does it in a very particular way, but why? Keith Hughes of HipHughesHistory helps us understand a bit better.
TLDR News
Can You Trust Polling Data? Is Biden Really Set to Win the Presidency - TLDR News
Over recent weeks and months, Joe Biden has held a solid lead over Donald Trump in polling, suggesting that Biden might be on track to win in November. However, some are sceptical of polls like these, or at least cautious following...
Curated Video
Bill Richmond: the First Black Sports Star
Bill Richmond was born into slavery on Staten Island, New York, which was then an outpost for the British colonies. When Richmond was 14, a British soldier named Hugh Percy arranged his freedom and brought him to England where Richmond...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The End of American Exceptionalism
“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today Jeffrey Sachs sits down with Rob Johnson to discuss his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Mr. Beat
Legal Segregation? | Plessy v. Ferguson
In episode 50 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man with lighter skin is arrested after refusing to leave the whites-only railway car of a segregated train in the Jim Crow South
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1908
The 31st episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. I hope to have them done by Election Day 2016. In 1908, Teddy Roosevelt anoints William Howard Taft as his successor, but William...
Curated Video
Bluegrass Music
Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains was the birthplace of Bluegrass Music and Bill Monroe who became the Godfather of the Bluegrass
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1984
The 50th Presidential election in American history took place on November 6, 1984, on my third birthday. Yep, this was the first presidential election I was alive to witness, although I don't remember it at all. Man, I guess that means...
Curated Video
The Little Rock Nine: Mobs, Violence, and School Closings
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Black students who enrolled in Dunbar high school in Arkansas in 1957, reflects on the mob and violence that met her on the first day of that school year. It would take a few days and the interference...
Mr. Beat
The Life and Times of John Brown
Was John Brown a hero or terrorist? The answer is not so simple. In this documentary, Mr. Beat examines the life and times of the most (in)famous abolitionist in history.
Hip Hughes History
Should Obama Pardon Hillary? The Presidential Pardon Explained
Should President Obama pardon Hillary Clinton? In this video we look at the presidential power of pardon. Who pardoned the most, what are some of the more infamous pardons in American History?
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1912
The 32nd episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. I hope to have them done by Election Day 2016. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt single handedly destroys the Republican Party because...
Curated Video
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African...
Curated Video
The Story of Lena Baker
Lena Baker a Black mother of three, was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white-Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke his...
One Minute History
Aaron Burr - Patriot or Traitor? - One Minute History
In the wake of the American Revolutionary war, Aaron Burr rises to power in the New York political arena. He reaches the apex of his career when Thomas Jefferson and Burr tie for the office of President. Behind the scenes, attempts to...
TLDR News
Obamagate & The Michael Flynn Controversy Explained - TLDR News
Obamagate & The Michael Flynn Controversy Explained .
Curated Video
Wendell Smith
Born on the 23rd of march, 1914. He was an African American sportswriter and editor. Credited with the recommendation of Jackie Robinson to Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He died of Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 58 on the 26th...
Curated Video
George Stinny
Born on the 21st October 1929, in South Carolina, United States, George was a 14 year old African American boy who was convicted of murdering two white girls on the 22nd March 1944. On the day prior to their death, they had ridden past...
Curated Video
The Day A Bunch of Kids Beat The Chief of Police
The Birmingham Children’s crusade of 1963, or the Children's March, was a march of school students aged 7 to 18 in Birmingham, Alabama that started on May 2, 1963. The purpose of the March was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about...
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1860
In 1860, tensions were obviously high, not only between Democrats and Republicans, but within the Democratic Party. At the Democratic National Conventions, extreme pro-slavery "Fire-eaters," walked out in protest. They were nicknamed...
Curated Video
The White House
The White House is perhaps the most iconic work of architecture in America - learn how it's design and style represents power, democracy and liberty.
One Minute History
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Comics and Games - One Minute History
The history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; one of the most recognized comic book franchises in the world.
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman: the "Moses" of Her Time
Aside from helping her family (and thousands more) escape slavery, she led troops in combat, cured a disease, and was generally way more of a rebel than history generally portrays her as. She lived a remarkably full life, especially for...
Curated Video
Shirley Chisholm: Equal Rights for Women
In 1969 Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Woman elected to Congress spoke to the US House of Representatives to argue in support of a controversial women’s rights bill; the Equal Rights Amendment.