Curated Video
The Man Who Planned to Make Antigua an African State
Do you know about the great Prince Klaas? In 1704, 10-year-old Kwaku nicknamed Prince Klaas was captured from Ghana during the Eguafo Civil war and was shipped to the Caribbean where he was purchased by a rich sugar planter. At that...
Curated Video
Frederick Douglass: The Journey to Freedom
This video tells the inspiring story of Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, who taught himself to read and write and eventually escaped to the North. The video also covers Douglass's life after slavery, which included writing...
Cerebellum
The American Civil War And Reconstruction: 1862-1869- Gettysburg Address (1863)
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. This video looks at the Gettysburg...
Curated Video
The New South: After Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, the American South attempted a rebrand. But would it accept the progressive social and political changes of the Reconstruction Era?
Step Back History
The Jamaican Maroons: Mutual Aid to Escape Slavery
The Atlantic colonial world is full of resistance to the brutal enslavement and displacement of BIPOC. Often escaping oppression meant forging pockets of resistance to live and fight for their freedom. These people are known as maroons,...
Jabzy
Slavery in Korea - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Slavery in Korea
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1840
The 14th 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 1840, the Whig Party brings Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, and Van Buren faces an...
Weird History
What It Was Like to Be a Civil War Soldier
The Civil War was the bloodiest in US history: more Americans perished in five years than in all other conflicts combined. What was it like to fight? Soldiers faced new technology on the field, like rifle-muskets that could cut down...
Weird History
What Happened Immediately After The American Revolution Ended
What happened right after the Revolutionary War ended? It's easy to think the United States of America was born immediately after the British surrendered at Yorktown, but in truth it was a long, arduous process to transform the...
KERA
What Students Understand About Slavery
A recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds that most high school seniors do not fully understand the history of slavery in the U.S. The study also finds that educators often are not provided with good materials, training,...
Mr. Beat
The 3/5 Compromise
Another educational, yet weirdly entertaining, video from Mr. Beat and his kid brother, Steven, about the horrible 3/5 Compromise.
Cerebellum
The Abolitionists: 1832-1844 - Webster-ashburton Treaty 1842
National Expansion (1832-1848) 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...
Mr. Beat
Franklin Pierce (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Here's the story of a President who consistently ranks as one of the worst. Does Franklin Pierce really deserve that ranking?
Hip Hughes History
The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner: US History Review
On May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner was beat, to inches of his life, on the floor of the US Senate. This is the story. Perfect for #APUSH students, cramming kids and lifelong learners!
Curated Video
I WONDER - Who Was Harriet Tubman?
This video is answering the question of who was Harriet Tubman.
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman part 6: A Heroine On and Off the Battlefield
The final part of this series details Harriet's experiences with the miltary during the Civil War, during which she became the first woman in the US to lead a major military operation. It concludes with stories of her life after the war,...
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman part 3: The Underground Railroad
The third video in this series covers Harriet's experiences being a conductor for the Underground Railroad. It provides details of some of the people she rescued, how she made so many trips on her own, and those who helped her along the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Mitchell - Mississippi Banned Books Festival
In more than three decades as a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, Jerry Mitchell’s stories helped put four Ku Klux Klan members and a suspected serial killer behind bars decades after they committed their crimes....
Curated Video
The Largest Slave Uprising in Colonial America
The Stono Rebellion of 1739 saw enslaved people rise up using coded sounds that sowed the seeds of jazz, blues and hip hop.
Jack Rackam
From Sea to Shining Sea | The Life & Times of James K Polk
I told you I'd get around to Polk eventually, didn't I? Yes that's right it's time to learn about the man who incorporated Oregon Country, Texas, and almost the entire American Southwest into the US of A, and dive head-first into...
Curated Video
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery. In its brutality,...
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman part 2: The Escape
The second video in this series details Harriet's escape from slavery. It also explains how other slaves made their own escapes. Lastly, the video describes Harriet's desperate attempts to free her family and others, which led to her...
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman part 1: The Early Years
The first video in this series covers Harriet Tubman's childhood and early adulthood. It provides details of her life as a slave and what led to her escape to freedom.
Weird History
The Slave Who Mailed Himself To Freedom
The life of Henry "Box" Brown is so notable because he was an Antebellum-Era Virginia plantation slave who managed to mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box. The big question here is: how did he do it? Easy! He had the help of...