Cerebellum
Colonization Of North America: French Settlements - Effects Of French On Native American Culture
Discusses the French trading networks, their alliances with Native Americans, and their conflicts with settlers. This video looks at the French treatment of the Native Americans, and the reasons this tended to be more civil than the...
Mr. Beat
The Texas Revolution (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Here's the story about how Texas became part of Mexico, then became its own country, and finally became part of the United States.
Hip Hughes History
The Constitutional Convention Explained in One Minute
Get a super condensed primer on the Constitutional Convention held in 1787 to replace the Articles of Confederation with the new stronger US Constitution.
Mr. Beat
The Differences Between the North and South Before the Civil War
Mr. Beat teaches a geography lesson to help explain what caused the American Civil War.
TMW Media
The fascinating history of Pirate Ships
We’re traveling to the oldest city in the US and we’ll find that it’s as active as ever. We can’t visit St. Augustine without letting you sample a drink from the Fountain of Youth! We show you the very spot where the city’s history...
Cerebellum
The American Civil War And Reconstruction: 1862-1869 - Post Civil War Laws And Constitutional Amendments
American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. This video looks at the 13th...
Cerebellum
Colonization Of North America: Spanish Settlements - Pirates! Spanish Settlements In New Mexico
Chronicles the exploits of Cortes, De Soto, and Coronado; and Spanish incursions into South & Central America, Mexico and the American Southwest. This video looks at pirates who tried to intercept Spanish ships bringing home a bounty of...
Cerebellum
Colonization Of North America: Spanish Settlements - Introduction And Background
Chronicles the exploits of Cortes, De Soto, and Coronado; and Spanish incursions into South & Central America, Mexico and the American Southwest. This video introduces the context of Spanish exploration of North America and their...
Curated Video
Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. commemorate the abolition of slavery
Celebrations across the U.S. are underway Wednesday as the nation marks Juneteenth, to commemorate the freedom of slavery. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Black Immigrants Feel Excluded, Though Their Population Is Growing
Black immigrants share their experience coming to the U.S. and how they're dealing with their own set of issues.
Bloomberg
How America's Racial Wealth Gap Began
May.07 -- White Americans have amassed almost seven times more wealth than Black Americans since the end of the Civil War. In the decades since the modern civil rights movement, that wealth gap has actually widened. This is the story of...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Santeria welcomes pope to Cuba with open arms
The African rooted religion of Santeria has existed in awkward overlap with Catholicism in Cuba since it was a Spanish colony
Curated Video
AP Announces Pulitzer Prize Award To Staff
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus053496The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables _ an investigation that...
Curated Video
RR0219/B Guadeloupe & Martinique: Tension
Martinique & Guadeloupe: Martinique: dancing; band playing; singer; band; sot in French, Paul Sendhor; French flag flying; street signs in French; cars with French number plates; restaurants; beach; people on beach; palm trees;...
Curated Video
ROVING REPORTS: RR0033/C: TANZANIA: DHOWS
Many of the traditional skills of industries like boat building have been overtaken by modern technology, but there are still some places where handcrafted vessels are best. Zanzibar is possibly the last place in Africa where dhows -...
Curated Video
Author and AP writer Jesse Holland tells some of the history behind the U.S. Capitol - history that includes slave labor building much of the government's seat. Holland has written a book about the role blacks played in building Washington
HEADLINE: First Person: Black Men Built the Capitol
CAPTION: Author and AP writer Jesse Holland tells some of the history behind the U.S. Capitol - history that includes slave labor building much of the government's seat. Holland has...
Curated Video
In Los Angeles' African-American enclaves the mood was buoyant and joyous that voters ushered the first black president elect in the nation's history. The AP's John Mone visited some of those neighborhoods
HEADLINE: African Americans react to Election 2008
CAPTION: In Los Angeles' African-American enclaves the mood was buoyant and joyous that voters ushered the first black president elect in the nation's history. The AP's John Mone...
Curated Video
Zanzibar - Stone Town
(dur: 11 mins 47 secs/english sot: 1 min 57 secs)
Zanzibar's Old Stone Town has been designated by UNESCO as one of the world's one hundred most important historic cities and this year a major restoration programme reached completion....
Curated Video
US Congressman arrested in protest against Sudan
1. Wide shot of protest in front of Sudanese Embassy
2. Close up of protesters in front of Sudanese Embassy
3. Man handing out flyers to people in cars
4. More of protesters
5. U-S Representative Donald Payne (Democrat) New Jersey,...
Curated Video
Serbia - Anti-government protests continue
The latest of the daily anti-government protests in the Serbian capital,
Belgrade, was given extra impetus on Sunday (8/12) by reports that the
country's Supreme Court had rejected Opposition parties' appeals against the annulment of...
Curated Video
SERBIA: OPPOSITION PARTIES VOW TO STEP UP ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Serbo-Croat/Rus/Nat
Serbia's opposition parties have vowed to step up its protests despite arrests of anti- government demonstrators and the expectation that courts will refuse to reverse the cancellation of its election victories....
Curated Video
SOUTH AFRICA: MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD VISIT
English/Nat
In an effort to increase and improve trade relations Malaysia's Prime Minister has brought a large delegation of businessmen to South Africa.
Their five-day visit is intended to develop trade between the two countries which...
Curated Video
Russian FM Lavrov holds talks with Vietnamese FM, calls for peaceful soultion in Ukraine
Russia's Foreign Minister on Wednesday called for a peaceful solution to the situation in Eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, urging the government in Kiev to end its operations against pro-Russian groups there.
Speaking at a news conference...