In the German town of Nördlingen in 1593, innkeeper Maria Höll found herself accused of witchcraft. She was arrested for questioning, and denied the charges. She insisted she wasn't a witch through 62 rounds of torture before her...

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lutzow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an...

You're sitting on the couch, when you hear a knock on the door. The police have arrived to arrest your spouse— for murder. This accusation comes as a total shock, but their fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. Your spouse...

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either...

Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan fights to free wrongfully convicted people from jail -- in fact, he has freed some 6,000 innocent people over the course of his career. He shares heartbreaking stories of how (and why) people end up...

Marci Shore, a historian specializing in Eastern European intellectual history and 20th-century totalitarianism, teaches at the Munk School at the University of Toronto as of July 2025. Drawing on her deep knowledge of Nazism and...

Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, says he didn't admit he lied after conceding defamation claims. Source: Ron Filipkowski, Twitter

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In this segment of the video series on Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the discussion centers on Hamlet's strategy to expose King Claudius's guilt. Hamlet doubts the ghost's intentions, fearing it could be a devil exploiting his...

The word "innocent" originates from the Latin prefix "in-" (not) and the verb "nocere" (to do harm), initially meaning someone who does no harm. By the time of Shakespeare, "innocent" had evolved to describe someone naive due to youth....

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In the 1930s, Jewish butchers the Schechter brothers showed integrity when they fought what they felt were unjust regulations, in order to uphold their faith and customer trust.

When picturing a jury, you probably imagine 12 people - no more, no less. But did you know there is no hard and fast rule about how many members are required on a jury? Today, Danielle looks at the differences between petit and grand...

Haiku Poetry reviews the elements of a haiku and explains how to compose one.

This video explores five fun facts about Cerberus.

Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) demonstrates that "repressed memory cases" are hardly limited to the United States.

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In which John talks about fireflies and childhood and what was wrong with him in high school. The footage of lightning bugs in an Indiana field comes from this video, shared (as this one is) with a Creative Commons license: • lightning...

In this video lesson, we learn how to add context to characters to make them more realistic and engaging for readers. The teacher guides students through recognizing descriptive sentences, asking questions about a character's background,...

A Saxon thegn describes a gemot, witan, the dooms and a Hundred Court together with some of the punishments handed out to those found guilty.

Leading his followers into war, then switching sides to fight the people he just helped win, leading one Crusade that accidentally destroyed Christian cities and another that did so intentionally, Pope Innocent III honestly did way more...

Steven Clark, a Psychology Professor at the University of California, Riverside, has spent the last 29 years conducting research on human memory and decision-making. During that period of time, 269 people were convicted of crimes they...

Everyone is upset and confused about the disastrous wedding. Then it is revealed that the shocking revelation about Hero was a lie. Claudio’s accusation was completely unfounded! How will this story end?

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