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Ruth Carol Taylor: the First African American Flight Attendant
Ruth Carol Taylor was the first African-American flight attendant in the United States. She was born in Boston, on December 27th, 1932, and attended Elmira College graduating as a registered nurse from the Bellevue School of Nursing in...
Curated Video
Eugene Bullard: the First African American Military Pilot
Eugene Bullard was born October 9, 1895, in Columbus, Georgia. At the age of 11, he ran away for good, and for the next six years, he wandered the South in search of freedom. After World War I, he enlisted in the French Foreign...
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Lucy Stanton: the First Black Woman to Earn a College Degree
Lucy Stanton was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies Literary Course from Oberlin...
One Minute History
The life sentence of Leonard Peltier - Native American Stories - One Minute History
The story of Leonard Peltier and the questions behind his incarceration
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1972
The 47th Presidential election in American history took place on November 7, 1972. It was the first one in which Americans aged 18 to 20 could vote in, thanks to the recent passage of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. Richard Nixon...
Curated Video
Battle of Gettysburg: Bird's-Eye View | Animated History
As the American Civil War raged in the summer of 1863, what began as a small skirmish outside the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania quickly escalated into the bloodiest battle of the war. Over three days of brutal fighting, the Union army...
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1816
The eighth 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 1816, in the middle of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, James Monroe easily...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The New Feudalism
Are Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos the new feudal elite? Anand Giridharadas talks to INET President Rob Johnson about how the titans of Silicon Valley use “philanthropy” to control more of our lives.
Curated Video
The Waco Horror: the Unjust Killing of Jesse Washington
The body of Fryer, a fifty-three-year-old white woman, was found by her children on the family’s property in Robinson, seven miles southeast of Waco. Jesse Washington, a laborer on Fryer’s farm, was arrested and charged with Fryer’s...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bradford Pearson - A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
Bradford Pearson is an award-winning journalist whose work examines everything from magicians to Japanese American incarceration to his own kidnapping. He’s written for The New York Times, and Esquire, Time, and Men’s Health magazines,...
One Minute History
The Filibuster - One Minute History
The Senate tradition of the filibuster is a political action that allows lawmakers to prolong debate over a proposed piece of legislation. The goal of the filibuster is to delay or prevent a vote on the proposal. Senators can speak for...
Mr. Beat
Why the Principal Can Search Your Purse | New Jersey v. T. L. O.
In episode 52 of Supreme Court Briefs, two students get caught smoking in the high school restroom, and one denies it, so the principal searches her purse
Curated Video
Anna Louise James
Anna Louise James was the first African American woman to be licensed as a pharmacist in Connecticut. The daughter of a former slave, Anna was raised in Connecticut and graduated from Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. When her brother-in-law...
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Robert Morris Sr.: First Black Lawyer in the U.S. to Win a Lawsuit
Robert Morris Sr. was the second African-American to be sworn into the Massachusetts bar, but the first to practice actively. Born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, 1823, he received formal education at Master Dodge’s School in Salem....
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1948
The 41st Presidential election in American history took place on November 2, 1948. After Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman took over, and soon after Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. Now, all eyes were on the Pacific...
The Wall Street Journal
Human Robots: Inside Westworld
Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright goes behind the scenes of HBO's 'Westworld' with WSJ Senior Editor Christopher John Farley.
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White Mob Lynches Frank Embree Hours Before Trial in Missouri
Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl. Embree was from the state of Missouri, and Black men convicted of rape of a White woman were sentenced to death by lynching. His horrifying story shows the...
Mr. Beat
The Oklahoma City Bombing Explained
Mr. Beat breaks down the Oklahoma City bombing as the 25th anniversary of it approaches.
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Young Coretta Scott King
Correta Scott King is often known for being the wife of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., but she was so much more than that. She was an activist in her own right and came from a family that valued education above all else....
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Thaddeus Stevens: an Abolitionist Who Championed the Rights of Blacks
Born on the 4th April 1792, in Danville, Vermont, United States, Thaddeus Stevens was known to be a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight. Having witnessed the oppressive slave system at close range, he developed a fierce...
One Minute History
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan - One Minute History
The story behind the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart and speculation on what happened to the iconic aviator
One Minute History
Swords in Rock - Sverd I Fjell - World's Greatest Monuments - One Minute History
The origins of the story behind Sverd I Fjell; one of the world's most iconic monuments
Weird History
The Newsboys Strike of 1899
At the end of the 19th century, two of the wealthiest media tycoons in the country tried to fatten their wallets by unfairly cutting into the newsies' already meager earnings, which led to the newsboys' strike of 1899. Here's the crazy...
Hip Hughes History
The Election of 1800 Explained
HipHughes goes old school style on the Election of 1800, explaining the basics on one of the most contested, dirty, controversial elections this side of 2000.