Curated Video
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner recognizes that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written toward the end of the War of 1812 by reviewing the lyrics.
Curated Video
Pauli Murray: Breaking Barriers of Race and Gender
As a queer Black lawyer, poet and civil rights activist, Pauli Murray understood how our different identities can overlap to create multiple levels of discrimination. Her groundbreaking work in championing equality for all helped change...
Hip Hughes History
The Erie Canal Explained: US History Review
Take a quick trip down the Erie Canal of Explaining as we look at how this revolutionary transportation system changed the course of United States History. Join me as we lay down the tracks of learning by covering the basics on the...
Hip Hughes History
The Election of 1860 Explained
A summary of the most consequential Presidential Election in US History, the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Curated Video
Ordering Your Introduction: Helping Your Reader Understand Your Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to write an introduction in a logical order for an essay. They emphasize the importance of considering what information the reader needs to know first and then organizing the points accordingly. By...
Curated Video
Frederick Douglass' Composite Nation
Abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass believed that the U.S. could become the greatest nation in history – if it accepted the defining principles set out in his speech, Composite Nation.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karl Alexander - The Long Shadow
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Barcroft Media
Embracing Scars: A Journey of Self-Love and Empowerment
This video tells the story of Shay, a breast cancer survivor who challenges societal expectations of femininity and embraces her body after undergoing surgeries and losing her breasts. Through her nonprofit organization, she supports and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elijah Anderson - 'Incident' by Countee Cullen
Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence,...
STAT
Science Happens! With Carl Zimmer
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a video game to help stroke patients recover. In the first episode of a new video series, “Science Happens,†STAT national correspondent Carl Zimmer explains the science behind...
Rachel's English
Places and Idioms! American English Pronunciation
Learn the pronunciation of a few place names (Baltimore, DC, Boston, Denver) and study the pronunciation of the phrases "for work", "for school", "for fun". Also learn the idioms "hiccup", "bump in the road", "hurdle to jump", "put on...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karl Alexander - The Thurgood Marshall Alliance
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karl Alexander - Summer Slide
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Next Animation Studio
Doctors successfully suspend human in animation
Doctors have put at least one human in suspended animation, the New Scientist reports
WYPR
BB Guns Look All Too Real
BB guns are popular among children, but they can pose a threat to the safety of communities. BB guns typically look almost identical to real guns, unless closely inspected. When a BB gun is held by someone in public, it is often mistaken...
NASA
NASA | Discover-AQ
NASA's launching a new mission this summer designed to better understand air pollution and gather data that could allow pollutants to be monitored more exactly from space. The field study coined, "Discover-AQ", will take place over the...
NASA
NASA | Explore@NASA Goddard Day
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 11am -- 5pm NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Goddard Space Flight Center will open its doors to the public for a FREE day of fun-filled activities, hands-on demonstrations, exhibits,...
NASA
NASA | LRO Team Spirit: Joanne Plans How To Build a Satellite
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is a first step to future missions, Mars, and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman played a key role.
Curated Video
Rubber Gloves: The Simple Invention That Revolutionised Medicine
This is a love story behind one of the most important medical inventions ever made - the rubber gloves.
Curated Video
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe
Famous American author Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting death may have been a result of cooping, a violent form of voter fraud practiced in the 19th century.
NASA
NASA | What Do They Do at Goddard Space Flight Center?
Come visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Putting ideas in space.... bringing knowledge home.
NASA
NASA | Command Accepted: SDO Music Video
SDO will help scientists better understand solar variability and aid in predictions of space weather. Ka band dishes at White Sands, New Mexico will be the go-between the satellite and the Mission Control Center at Goddard Space Flight...
Next Animation Studio
Trash wheel saves ocean from Baltimore’s plastic-filled rivers
A new invention is helping to solve the long-term environmental crisis created by the type of people who throw their trash on the ground.
Mr. Beat
The Great Migration (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations" parody)
Mr. Beat and The Singing History Teachers team up to do a parody of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations" to teach you about The Great Migration.