Hip Hughes History
The Erie Canal Explained: US History Review
Take a quick trip down the Erie Canal of Explaining as we look at how this revolutionary transportation system changed the course of United States History. Join me as we lay down the tracks of learning by covering the basics on the...
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The Election of 1876 Explained
If you think the election of 2000 was cray cray you ain't seen nothing. A video lecture explaining the election of 1876. Check out all of the elections here • Presidential Elec...
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The Bill Clinton Impeachment Explained: US History Review
HipHughes rides the line between history and creepy as he explains the reasons for the Clinton Impeachment and acquittal.
Hip Hughes History
The Articles of Confederation Explained: U.S. History Review
A review of our first Constitution, the AOC. What were the Articles of Confederation? How did it run the United States? Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? Mr. Hughes explains the basics of the Articles of Confederation including...
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The 13th Amendment Explained: The Constitution for Dummies
Journey down the road of understanding the 13th Amendment with your host, HipHughes.
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Why do Federal Judges Have Lifetime Appointments? Government Review
HipHughes ponders a question; Should Federal Judges get jobs for life? Or should they face the wrath of voters.
Curated Video
96 Ranch Rodeo and Barbecue (1951)
A video from the American Folk Life collection depicts life on the Ninety Six ranch in Paradise Valley, Nevada. Les Stewart's film “96 Ranch Rodeo and Barbecue” (1951) documents a harvest celebration on the Ninety-Six Ranch. Les’s...
Curated Video
Annie Oakley Shooting a Rifle (1895)
An 1895 film recording of Annie Oakley doing a rifle exhibition demonstration. Recorded and published by the Edison Manufacturing Company. Oakley was a legendary American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Step Back History
Women and White Power
The White Power Movement of the 80s was not only motivated by racist resentment but a patriarchal backlash against progress made by women in recent decades. So, how does a consciously anti-feminist movement with strict patriarchal...
Step Back History
How Neo-Nazis and Klansmen Got Rockets, and Landmines
By the 1980s, the White Power Movement was on the roll in their project to commit race war on the US and set up a white supremacist utopia. But wars needs weapons, and today's video is about how they got their hands on them.
Step Back History
The Poor People's Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr was a more radical figure whose history has been whitewashed. This is the story of his last days fighting for economic justice in the Poor People's Campaign.
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How the Police Became an Occupying Army
We’ve heard quite a bit about the institution of the police lately. We see them in places like Portland or Minneapolis sporting military weapons, driving armoured personnel carriers, and dressed like the jackboots from a dystopian 70s...
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Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Apocalypse
Today we're going to talk about White Power's move to rebrand, as well as their massive clashes with the police at Ruby Ridge and Waco. These events ramped up a sense of an impending apocalypse. Something so scary, we'd eventually see...
Jack Rackam
Father of the Supreme Court | The Life & Times of John Marshall
We return once more to the USA! Chief Justice John Marshall, after turning down jobs as state attorney and attorney general, turned out to be one of the most influential justices the Supreme Court has ever had, and is more or less the...
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How the Klan "Continued" the Vietnam War at Home
A group of Vietnamese Refugees in Texas in the late 1970s saw their lives turn into a horror show, as the white community terrorized them. What's worse is the Ku Klux Klan got involved. This resulted in a violent clash of communities...
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Dinesh D'Souza: Infinity War
Dinesh D'Souza is an infamous right-wing provocateur. In 2016 he published an 'expose' on the Democratic party which not only misrepresents the history it covers but belies a darker motive.
Financial Times
Mapping how railroads built America - Ep 3
A new look at antique US railroad maps reveals how cities grew over the past 200 years. The FT's Alan Smith and Steven Bernard trace how cities, people and the economy spread from coast to coast.
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The Massacre That United the Far-Right
In 1979, the murder of five communist protestors sealed an alliance between America's two largest factions of the far-right, the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. This event says a lot about the state's reply to right-wing violence and the...
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America
I often get asked who my favourite historical figure is, and I can think of no person who represented the moral endurance and strength of Emma Goldman. Let's hear her story and maybe she'll be your favourite historical figure too.
Weird History
How 'Kilroy Was Here' Was The First Meme Ever
From the hulls of ships to the sides of trucks to the walls of bathroom stalls across the world - and even engraved into national monuments - one iconic phrase has appeared in seemingly every place across the globe: "Kilroy was here."
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The Anarchist Who Shot the President
On September 6, 1901, an Anarchist Steelworker named Leon Czolgosz shot and killed the President of the United States, William McKinley. This assassination led to a xenophobic panic, sometimes described as a historical war on terror,...
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How Kyle Rittenhouse Got Away with M-----
The video in which I explain how to get away with murder with only centuries of history, and American superstructure.
Weird History
Life As An Inmate At Alcatraz
The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934. Until it closed nearly three decades later, Alcatraz was reserved for some of the most ruthless criminals.
Step Back History
When White Supremacists Declared War on America
Born in the fires of Vietnam, the White Power movement decided in 1983 to overthrow the government of the United States. But to do so, you need recruits, weapons, organization, and money. This is how they tried to build it.