Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Island Hopping
BackStory audio includes several stories organized around the theme Islands. The American History guys explore U.S. history by focussing on an alternative perspective of the island, from Hawaii to the Great Lakes, through the Caribbean...
Backstory Radio
Backstory Radio: Here to There: A History of Mapping
BackStory Radio episode on the history of mapping and perception of place. The History Guys explore maps throughout U.S history revealing a story of a map that gave America its name. Audio is provided; no transcript.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: World War I Naval Aviation
Development of Naval aviation durign World War I. Pioneers in Naval aviation discuss wartime experiences, emphasizing problems and accomplishments making the growth and combat testing of Naval aviation in World War I.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Who Are the People of America?
Explains how the United States came to be a diversely populated nation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War): Battles and Legacy
An overview of the North American battles during the Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) and the Treaty of Paris 1763 which led to the Proclamation of 1763.
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Khan Academy: The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War): Background and Combatants
The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) also known by other names, was the first global war whereby the British and the French competed to be the world's foremost imperial power. The background to the conflict and what the...
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Khan Academy: Developing an American Colonial Identity
British colonies were involved in the political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain which produced stronger bonds and resistance to Britain's control in 1754.
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Khan Academy: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans Politics and Native Relations in New England Colonies
The British colonies of New England and Chesapeake developed forms of government that were unusually democratic for the time and omitted Native Americans in their society. Both colonies are compared and contrasted.
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Khan Academy: The Middle Colonies
The proprietary Middle Colonies of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware are explored by contrasting and comparing their founding, ethnic diversity, religious tolerance, class structure, economy, language, and upward mobility...
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Khan Academy: Society and Religions in the New England Colonies
Pilgrims and Puritans are compared and contrasted by their purpose for emigrating, environment, social structure, and theology.
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Khan Academy: Jamestown the Impact of Tobacco
An overview of the Anglo-Powhattan Wars and John Rolfe's discovery of tobacco as the perfect crop for the Virginia colony and the impact tobacco will have on the Virginia colony.
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Khan Academy: Early English Settlements Jamestown
The English colony of Jamestown, Virginia is examined including the land, the people who settled, and the diseases that were encountered.
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Khan Academy: Motivation for English Colonization
During the late 1500's and early 1600's, the United Kingdom began colonization in the America's. Motivation for English colonization included competition with Catholic nations for riches and souls, the development of "joint stock"...
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Khan Academy: England in the Age of Exploration
More that 100 years after Columbus arrived in the New World, England settled in North America in 1607. The delay in England's exploration included struggles for the throne, war in Ireland, and economic depression.
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Khan Academy: European Colonization: French and Dutch Colonization in North America
During the 1600's the French and the Dutch North American colonization approaches as related to the English and the Spanish is examined. The French and Dutch trading relationships with Native Americans in North America is also examined...
PBS
Pbs: The Underground Railroad: Social Studies Arts Toolkit
Historians describe several local sites in Kentucky on the Underground Railroad, and tell the story of the Cincinnati 28, who made a daring escape and then hid in plain sight as they passed through Cincinnati.