Wonderscape
The Battles of Lexington and Concord: The Shot Heard Around the World
This video explores the events of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, debunking myths about who fired the first shot of the American Revolution. It explains how the term “the shot heard around the world” originated and why the identity...
Professor Dave Explains
Late Modern Philosophy Part 1: The Roots of Continental Philosophy
Modern philosophy began to approach its final stages in the early 19th century as two important groups began to form. These are the continental and analytic traditions, and these two groups will guide our investigation for the next...
The Art Assignment
Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly | The Art Assignment
This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
C-SPAN
Bell Ringer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's a bellringer video about Ralph Waldo Emerson that will resonate with American Literature students. Against a backdrop of Emerson's study, Curator of the Concord Museum David Wood informs viewers about the philosopher's life,...
The School of Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pantheist, romanticist, transciendentalist. Introduce young philosophers to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a video that details his life, his ideas, and his essays.
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Learn Out Loud
Learn Out Loud: Literary History and Criticism [Free Audios]
More than twenty-five free audio or video files from renowned scholars which provide some in-depth literary criticism as well as the scope of literary history. Many of these are university lectures while others are interviews from...
Learn Out Loud
Learn Out Loud: Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's well-known essay is available here for free download as MP3 and MPEG-4 formats. Listen to the whole essay or just a sample.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Transcendentalism (I)
This video is a video lecture [1:15:55] entitled American Transcendentalism (I). It features discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; ontological individualism and the state of nature; Alexis de Tocqueville; Immanuel Kant; philosophical...