Instructional Video2:24
The Business Professor

Rule 504 - Securities Exemption

Higher Ed
Rule 504 - Securities Exemption
Instructional Video4:15
The Business Professor

Securities Issuance - Prefiling Period

Higher Ed
Securities Issuance - Prefiling Period
Instructional Video31:48
OverSimplified

Prohibition

6th - 11th
Prohibition
Instructional Video1:59
Cerebellum

The World War One Years 1917-1920 - The 18th Amendment - Volstead Act (1919)

9th - 12th
American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In this video, the documents...
Instructional Video12:16
Weird History

How People Spent Free Time In the 1920s

12th - Higher Ed
For the healing of the nations there must be good will and charity, confidence and peace," President Calvin Coolidge declared at the end of 1923, as the shadow of WWI continued to loom over America. What was life actually like in the...
Instructional Video8:27
Mr. Beat

Prohibition (Story Time with Mr. Beat)

6th - 12th
Here's the story of the time the United States tried banning the production, transport, and sale of alcohol.
Instructional Video10:19
Weird History

The History of Alcohol in America

12th - Higher Ed
From colonial cider drinkers to prohibition hooch smugglers, these are the lengths Americans went for their booze. Some cowboys were said to be so desperate at the saloons they threw back a mixture of gin and strychnine, while some...
Instructional Video24:16
Professor Dave Explains

Woodrow Wilson: A World War and a League of Nations (1913 - 1921)

9th - Higher Ed
Woodrow Wilson was president during a time when a lot was changing in the world. World War I broke out, and as hard as he tried to keep America out of it, it was inevitable that it enter the action, only to emerge as the world's premiere...
Instructional Video2:50
Ancient Lights Media

US Constitution: Freedom of Religion

6th - 8th
Understanding the U.S. Constitution: 5. This clip explains the guarantee of Freedom of Religion as it is spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.
Instructional Video7:44
Cerebellum

Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - The New Deal

9th - 12th
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Instructional Video1:28
Cerebellum

Emergence Of Modern America: The Progressive Era - Women In The Progressive Era

9th - 12th
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Progressive Era uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era...
Instructional Video14:23
Khan Academy

US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression

8th - 11th
Ambitiously spanning American history from 1865 to 1941, this video discusses and clarifies topics such as women's suffrage, the sinking of the Maine, and the development of America as a world empire. Maps and photographs will engage...
Instructional Video0:54
C-SPAN

On This Day: Prohibition

7th - Higher Ed Standards
Before Prohibition, America was literally awash in alcohol, according to one historian of the topic. When the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted, loopholes allowed Americans workarounds, such as the ability to make up to 250 gallons of...
Instructional Video3:09
C-SPAN

On This Day: Ratification of the 21st Amendment

9th - Higher Ed Standards
What led to the end of Prohibition? In a word: money. To use the words of one historian: the government was desperate for tax revenue in the midst of the Depression. With a series of curated videos, scholars examine the causes of and the...
Audio
Curated OER

History Matters: Not Rum but Righteousness: Billy Sunday Attacks Booze

9th - 10th
Listen to one of Billy Sunday's sermons denouncing liquor and the government's taxing of it. [12:19 min.]
Audio
Curated OER

History Matters: Aimee Semple Mc Pherson on Prohibition

9th - 10th
Listen to a speech by Aimee Semple McPherson, well-known evangelical preacher in the 1920s, where she talks about Prohibition. [12:19 min.]
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: 'Dry Manhattan' Traces Prohibition's Failure

9th - 10th
Listen to an NPR interview with author Michael A. Lerner whose book, Dry Manhattan, contends that Prohibition caused a culture clash in New York City between those who supported Prohibition and the large immigrant community which...
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Billy Sunday, Man of God

9th - 10th
Listen to this NPR examination of Billy Sunday as he railed against the Demon Drink. There are audio clips of Billy Sunday's sermons, as well as an interview with author Robert F. Martin, who wrote Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and...
Audio
Backstory Radio

Back Story Radio: Cheers and Jeers: Alcohol in America [2013]

9th - 10th
This Backstory Radio episode is a rebroadcast of a 2012 episode on the history of alcohol use and abuse in America as well as its proponents and opponents. It provides the audio in segments and the full episode in a transcript.
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Episode 1859: Amendments & Judicial Review Part 8: Prohibition

9th - 10th
Americans thought better about Prohibition, repealing it in 1933.
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: The Eighteenth Amendment

9th - 10th
Prohibition in the United States was first enacted with the 18th Amendment, but this was later replaced with the 21st Amendment which ended prohibition.
Instructional Video
Other

Reading Through History: History Brief: Speakeasies

9th - 10th
A short video about speakeasies and other unintended consequences of the prohibition era. [4:38]