Tulsa, Okalahoma's Greenwood District was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States in the 1920s and was known as "Black Wallstreet." Many of the White citizens of the city resented Greenwood's...

Football, baseball, basketball player – he was one of America's most talented sportsmen and the first Native American to achieve Olympic Gold glory! So why don't we see Jim Thorpe's name up in lights?

Akash Patel began his teaching career in very small rural communities in Oklahoma where people had never seen or met “a brown Indian guy who spoke five languages and had traveled to over 50 countries”. He used his travel experiences...

When you think of hygiene during the Great Depression, you might automatically assume the widespread unemployment and poverty resulted in a generally dirty and unkempt population. However, while many people were forced to live in...

An introductory lecture to the basics of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.

Listen to our ‘US States and Capitals Songs’ on video and sing along with the kids!

"What happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921? A mob of 10,000 whites descended on Greenwood, the richest black neighborhood in America, after a black teenager on his way to a blacks-only bathroom stepped on the foot of a white elevator...

Freshwater mussel species, with names such as 'fatmucket,' 'bankclimber,' and 'heelsplitter,' are critical to river ecosystems. But, many species are in trouble. Nearly 70 percent of freshwater mussel species are considered threatened in...

This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.