TED Talks
TED: What the world can learn from Ukraine's fight for democracy | Olesya Khromeychuk
A flourishing democracy next door is a scary thing for an autocrat, says Ukrainian historian Olesya Khromeychuk. Detailing the history of Ukraine's long struggle for sovereignty and freedom — against Russian tsars, communist dictators...
SciShow
How Political Questions Mess with Your Brain
It’s an election year, which means you’ve probably been bombarded with polls asking you questions about candidates and issues. But is information the only thing pollsters are after? Questions are often more than just questions. They can...
Crash Course
Age of Jackson Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the presidency of Andrew Jackson So how did a president with astoundingly bad fiscal policies end up on the $20 bill? That's a question we can't answer, but we can tell you how Jackson got to be...
Crash Course
Gerrymandering: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today Craig is going to talk about a topic that makes voters and politicians alike ANGRY! We're going to talk about Gerrymandering - that is the process in which voting districts are redrawn in a way to favor one party during elections....
Crash Course
Party Systems: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, Craig is going to dive into the history of American political parties. So throughout most of United States history our political system has been dominated by a two-party system, but the policies and the groups that support these...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer
You vote, but then what? Discover how your individual vote contributes to the popular vote and your state's electoral vote in different ways--and see how votes are counted on both state and national levels.
TED Talks
TED: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media | Mikhail Zygar
History is written by the victors, as the saying goes -- but what would it look like if it was written by everyone? Journalist and TED Fellow Mikhail Zygar is on a mission to show us with Project1917, a "social network for dead people"...
Crash Course
Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism, and China: Crash Course World History 230
In which John Green teaches you about the end of World History, and the end of the world as we know it, kind of. For the last hundred years or so, it seemed that one important ingredient for running an economically successful country was...
Curated Video
The Iroquois Confederacy - America's First Democracy
The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to be the one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies and the oldest democratic form of government on the American continent. Originally made from five Native American tribes:...
Curated Video
Greater Idaho: Why Idaho Wants To Take Over Oregon And Eventually Washington and California Too
Oregon often feels like a progressive state, but once you get outside of Portland and Eugene, and especially beyond the Cascade Mountains, it gets very conservative. Because of this cultural difference, there's been a concerted effort to...
Wonderscape
The National Conventions and Presidential Nominees
After primary elections and caucuses, political parties hold national conventions to officially select their presidential nominee. Delegates from each state cast votes based on the results of their state’s primary or caucus. The...
Curated Video
Democratic Laws
Dr. Forrester reviews how a democratic government works. She discusses why laws are enacted and the process involved in passing a law.
Curated Video
William Penn
Dr. Forrester tells story of William Penn, the father of the city of Philadelphia and the founder of the state of Pennsylvania.
Curated Video
Should Monarchies Still Exist in the 21st century? | Debate with J.J. McCullough
Should Monarchies Still Exist in the 21st century? | Debate with J.J. McCullough
Curated Video
Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles - A Styles Models of Leadership
We’ve seen models of leadership based on personal traits, individual behaviors, and the roles we need to fulfill. Another approach relates to the way we lead: that is, the style we adopt.
Curated Video
Democracy Examined
Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) examines the subtleties involved in what it means to be a democracy.
Curated Video
Elite Capture and Societal Inequality
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes two concerns that were as important in ancient Athens are they are today: elite capture and political inequality.
Curated Video
Democracy and the Founding Fathers
Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) describes how most Americans have a false view of their own political history.
Curated Video
Inhibiting Idealizations
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) speculates that our love of Athenian democracy sometimes prevents us from taking a more objective view of their society.
Curated Video
Executive Order
What actual powers does the President have? Well, as it turns out – a lot. Including the power to make new orders at the stroke of a pen.
Organizational Communication Channel
Leadership Styles
The research on classic Leadership Styles (full version) looks at the Autocratic (0:19), Democratic (8:37), and Laissez-Faire (16:05) leadership definitions, examples, and characteristics so you can compare and contrast them all.
Hip Hughes History
America's First Gangs; The First Political Parties
A one day project after some direct instruction, where students enacted Federalists and Democratic Republicans to get across key concepts for the 11th grade US History curriculum. This project is called a DV Quilt, the genre and...
Hip Hughes History
Why Did Trumpcare Fail? or Why They Killed the Bill
My own thoughts on why the American Health Care Act better known as Trumpcare or RyanCare. Why did it fail? How did trump error? TrumpCare Explained • The Bill That Was... ObamaCare Explained • ObamaCare: The Af... Learn about the...
Vlogbrothers
Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party
In which John seeks to understand the strange and labyrinthine process used by the Republican and Democratic parties to select a nominee for President, focusing on the great state of Missouri, where the races were close but the delegate...