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Curated Video

Nelly Bly: Breaking Barriers from Asylums to the Skies

9th - Higher Ed
We've all got our favourite YouTubers, right? But everyone with a channel has this Pennsylvian lady, Nellie Bly, to thank. You could say she was the world’s first blogger.
Instructional Video3:05
Curated Video

1619: The Legacy of Slavery in America

9th - Higher Ed
1619 was a significant year in the history of America for better and for worse. In Jamestown, Virginia the first slaves were imported and sold. Meet Nikole Hannah-Jones; author of New York Times' "1619 Project" who will examine the...
Instructional Video3:54
The Business Professor

Understanding the Breakdown of State Court Systems

Higher Ed
The video provides an overview of the state court system in the United States, including the hierarchy of courts and their respective jurisdictions. It explains that almost every state has trial courts with subdivisions of limited...
Instructional Video2:45
Curated Video

We Call BS! Why Guns Are Big News

9th - Higher Ed
Millions of Americans value their Second Amendment right to own and carry arms. However, after 17 students and staff were shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School back in Florida in 2018 - students became the voice in the fight...
Instructional Video2:14
Curated Video

The Negro League Baseball: Shattering Segregation

9th - Higher Ed
Like much of American in the early 19th century, sports were segregated. But with the newly established Negro Baseball League, African American baseball players overcame racial segregation to claim the national pastime as their own.
Instructional Video2:20
Curated Video

Fighting for LGBTQ Rights: Is the United States Really United?

9th - Higher Ed
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution allows each state to set its own laws. That's meant that in Colorado, LGBTQIA+ rights have often been repressed. Meet the students at William J. Palmer High School who took their school district to...
Instructional Video2:12
Curated Video

Is Now The Time to Talk About Guns?

9th - Higher Ed
Gun control in the United States has been a loaded term for decades. So who is favour of the Second Amendment – and who is fighting back against it?
Instructional Video2:40
The Business Professor

Federal Subject Matter Jurisdiction

Higher Ed
This Video Explains Federal Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Instructional Video1:43
Curated Video

Jovita Idar: Voice of the People

9th - Higher Ed
Imagine throwing shade at a politician online and police showed up to arrest you! It would be un-American, right? In this video, we'll explain the story of Jovita Idar, a Mexican-American journalist who refused to be silenced!
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Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

9th - Higher Ed
In 1974, US House Representative for Texas, Barbara Jordan delivered an impassioned speech on the power and meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Delivered on primetime television to critical acclaim during the coverage of the infamous...
Instructional Video2:07
Curated Video

Claudette Colvin: The Original Rosa Parks

9th - Higher Ed
You know the story of David and Goliath, right? Well, America has its own version. Only our hero is 15-year-old African-American, school girl Claudette Colvin and in 1955, she took on the State of Alabama for real. The original Rosa Parks!
Instructional Video1:40
Curated Video

Hedy Lamarr: Mother of WiFi

9th - Higher Ed
Did you know? The amazing technology behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS was the brainchild of Hollywood actor turned visionary inventor Hedy Lamarr - the Mother of Wi-Fi.
Instructional Video2:21
The Business Professor

Right to Jury Trial Under 6th and 7th Amendment

Higher Ed
This Video Explains the Right to Jury Trial Under 6th and 7th Amendment
Instructional Video1:55
Curated Video

Chapstick Spy Devices and the Role they Played in Watergate

9th - Higher Ed
21st century spies have some serious tech at their disposal but back in the 1970s, things were a little more DIY. This is the story of a spy device disguised as chapstick tubes that played a key part in America’s most infamous burglary,...
Instructional Video2:27
Curated Video

Barbara Jordan: The Black Texan Politician who Broke the Glass Ceiling

9th - Higher Ed
At a time when women and people of colour were all but excluded from the US government, one woman stormed the corridors of power and made them her own. This is the story of Barbara Jordan, the African American from the South who defied...
Instructional Video2:36
Curated Video

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

9th - Higher Ed
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, is rightly recognised as one of the most touching and solemn war memorials in the world. But when plans for the memorial were first unveiled, many Vietnam veterans and US political leaders...
Instructional Video2:24
Curated Video

Jim Thorpe: Native American Olympic Hero

9th - Higher Ed
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?
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Curated Video

John Rollin Ridge: the Native American Novelist Like No Other

9th - Higher Ed
We've had some great American Novelists? You've read some of them in school, right? But one writer you've probably never heard of is John Rollin Ridge, aka Yellow Bird: the first Native American to ever publish a novel about a fictitious...
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Hip Hughes History

Presidential Succession Explained: American Government Review

6th - 12th
A super helpful overview of Presidential succession according to the Constitution and Congressional Law. Perfect for AP Government crammers, lost College students and the cray cray on the internets.