Curated Video
RR9924/C JEFFERSON: REUNION
USA, CHARLOTTESVILLE, RECENT: jib track from statue of Thomas Jefferson to front of Monticello, Jefferson's plantation house; family group assemble; tilt from white boy to black man; marble bust of Thomas Jefferson; tilt from tree to...
Bloomberg
Trump: We Did Nothing Wrong
Dec.19 -- President Donald Trump talks about the impeachment during a “Keep America Great” rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Curated Video
USA: BUCHANAN GAINING ON DOLE'S LEAD FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
English/Nat
Pat Buchanan is gaining fast on Bob Dole in his bid for the U-S Republican presidential nomination.
Days before the nation's first primary in New Hampshire, a C-N-N poll has placed the conservative Buchanan in a statistical...
Curated Video
How The Supreme Court Became What It Is Today
America's approval of the highest court in the land is declining, and how was the U.S. Supreme Court created.
Curated OER
American Presidents: John Adams
The first president to live in the White House, John Adams was not particularly popular. He took a lot of flack from his supporters when he refused to go to war with France. Although he could be responsible for the western United States,...
Curated OER
Constitution Lecture 4: Democracy or Republic?
Part four defines oligarchy, monarchy, republic, and democracy. Each type of government is defined in terms of its linguistic and historical origins and how rights are granted in each form of government. Give your upper graders a clear...
National Constitution Center
National Constitution Center: Constitution Hall Pass: The Judicial Branch
Video introduced by Judge Sandra Day O'Connor where she talks about the judicial branch. It then takes us on a tour of the National Constitution Center where we are told about the Constitutional Convention, with statues of the Founding...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Who Won the American Revolution
John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides. Everyone is familiar with how this war played out for the Founding Fathers; they got...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: George Mason Part 1
George Mason is one of America's forgotten Founders. This podcast sheds light on why that is. [1:20]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Reluctant Founder
George Mason played an important role in ensuring that a bill of rights was added to the Constitution, yet he remains one of the country's least-known Founders. [1 min. 9 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Sharp Spoken Planter
George Mason was known as the "sharp-spoken planter." His personality may have inhibited his fame. [1 min. 4 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: George Mason: Childhood and Youth
George Mason triumphs over tragedy, reads widely, and becomes a lawyer. [57 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: George Mason: The Young Planter
George Mason owned slaves, but hated slavery. Learn more about Mason's life as a Southern planter. [1 min. 11 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Fairfax Resolves
The Fairfax Resolves were supposed to set out the colonies' fundamental principles and our constitutional rights. [1 min. 9 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Fairfax Resolves Explained
No taxation without representation. Sound familiar? Hear about George Mason's Fairfax Resolves. [1 min. 7 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Pugnacious Fairfax Resolves
The hard-hitting final paragraph of the Fairfax Resolves. [1 min. 16 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Growing Opposition to Slavery
Should we expect the Founders to have transcended the limitations of their own age in their actions against and attitudes toward slavery? [1 min. 9 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: George Mason Refuses to Sign the Constitution
Learn why George Mason refused to sign the Constitution. [1 min. 7 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Mason Objects to the Constitution
George Mason objected that the Constitution contained no Bill of Rights. So he wrote about it. [1 min. 10 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: "There Is No Declaration of Rights"
"There is no Declaration of Rights," declared George Mason. And he refused to sign the Constitution. [1 min. 9 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Virginia Accepts the Constitution
Virginia accepts the the proposed Constitution and George Mason returns to Gunston Hall to spend his final days. [1:20]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: George Mason's Legacy
George Mason's legacy: how much do you know about this important Founder? [1:34]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Youngest Delegate
James Madison was the youngest delegate to the Continental Congress. His service in the Virginia state assembly had formed his beliefs about the role of government. [1:4]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Legacy of James Madison
We conclude this series on James Madison and the Constitution with an examination of the lessons of the Philadelphia Convention. Madison was afraid that his legacy would disappear taking with it the spirit of compromise. [1 min. 12 secs.]