A short yet fun and informative video review of the period of Detente that existed between the US and China and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

HipHughes ponders a question; Should Federal Judges get jobs for life? Or should they face the wrath of voters.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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."

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,...

The video in which I explain how to get away with murder with only centuries of history, and American superstructure.

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.

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.

The story of the real Typhoid Mary - In the early 1900s, germ theory was a relatively new concept, and many – including doctors – were unaware of how diseases spread. At the time, bacterial diseases like typhoid and dysentery could still...

Yes, pun intended. In this, the age of the Internet, Nikola Tesla has enjoyed a posthumous surge in popularity that makes Einstein look like an old french fry. It took an entire David Bowie to fill his shoes in The Prestige. Our RL Iron...

The 30th anniversary celebration of the Woodstock music festival took place in Rome, NY, from July 22-25, 1999. But what was originally conceived as a modern homage to the landmark hippie-fueled musical lovefest of the 1960s ended up...

It was the most destructive conflict in US history – but the American Civil War also saw the emergence of new technologies and innovations born from a will to win.