Crash Course
Phillis Wheatley Crash Course Black American History
Despite all the hardship of being a Black person in Colonial America, some Black people were able to defy the harsh conditions and create art. Today we're learning about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Leonora Neville: The princess who rewrote history
Anna Komnene, daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexios, spent the last decade of her life creating a 500-page history of her father's reign called "The Alexiad." As a princess writing about her own family, she had to balance her loyalty to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales" - Iseult Gillespie
A portly Miller, barely able to sit on his horse, rambles on about the flighty wife of a crotchety old carpenter and the scholar she takes as her lover. This might sound like a bawdy joke, but it's part of one of the most esteemed works...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar | Iseult Gillespie
In ancient Kyoto, a Shinto scholar found himself distracted from his prayers and sought to perform a purification ritual that would cleanse him. He decided to travel to the revered Hie Shrine; walking the path alone, ignoring any...
SciShow
Pliny The Elder: Great Minds
Before there was Google, there were encyclopedias. The very idea of these vast collections of knowledge can be credited to Pliny The Elder. So who was he, and why does he seem to pop up everywhere from Alchemy to Zoology? Hank has the...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire - Leonora Neville
Most history books will tell you that the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century CE, but this would've come as a surprise to the millions who lived in the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages. This Medieval Roman Empire, today called the...
Makematic
James Madison's Legacy
James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution” – but he was so much more than that. As author of the Virginia Plan and the Bill of Rights, his political genius proved vital in the founding of our nation.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Derek Penslar - Teachers Make a Difference - Anita Shapira
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He is the director of undergraduate studies within the department and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at the Minda de...
Curated Video
Safari Scholar: Searching for Homophones and Homographs
The Safari Scholar explores the jungle and learns about homophones and homographs.
Curated Video
Safari Scholar: Searching for Antonyms and Synonyms
The Safari Scholar searches the jungle for synonyms and antonyms.
Curated Video
Safari Scholar: Searching for Adjectives
The Safari Scholar searches the jungle for adjectives. He explains how to identify adjectives and add creative adjectives to sentences.
Curated Video
Safari Scholar: Searching for Subject-Verb Agreement
The Safari Scholar searches for answers on how to make subjects and verbs agree in sentences.
Curated Video
Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori: A Prince Enslaved
Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, a Fula prince and former slave, was determined to free his family. His extraordinary story and character caught America's attention at a complicated time in American history.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Teachers Who Changed My Life: A Tribute to Mentors and Scholars
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this video, she highlights the impact of several influential teachers in her life. Each teacher played a...
Religion for Breakfast
Why Strict Religions Succeed
Across cultures, religious communities that expect more from their members thrive (or religious communities in which members face greater consequences for leaving). Meanwhile, lenient religious groups struggle to maintain membership. Why...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Roger Guesnerie - The Next Economic Frontier and the Wild World of Non-Rational Expectations
One of the fundamental ideas of modern economics -- that people have rational expectations, an unbiased, statistically correct view of the future -- is, in reality, a simple hypothesis. And despite its prominence in recent economic...
Amor Sciendi
St. Jerome in His Study
Antonello de Messina's St. Jerome in his study is a good entry point for the iconography of Saints and the its use to communicate abstract concepts. St. Jerome is a conflicted character, and the items around him help to communicate that.
Religion for Breakfast
Star Wars Fan Fiction Explains Early Christian Apocrypha
You probably have heard about the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. They introduce famous characters like the apostles Peter and John. But they also introduce not-so-famous characters that only show up for one chapter or...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Francesca Gino - Teachers Make a Difference - Max Bazerman
Francesca Gino is a professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. I am also formally affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, with the Mind,...
Religion for Breakfast
Animism: The First Religion?
Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should we categorize it? This video was...
The March of Time
1953: YALE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR: VS Trumbull College, Calhoun College, & Berkeley College buildings. INT VS Senior students gathered around, smoking cigarettes, listening to John Colt reading excerpt from novel during seminar (SOT). English
MOT 1953: YALE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR: VS Trumbull College, Calhoun College, & Berkeley College buildings. INT VS Senior students gathered around, smoking cigarettes, listening to John Colt reading excerpt from novel during seminar (SOT)....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edmund W. Gordon - Teachers Make a Difference - W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke & Miss Perkins
EDMUND W. GORDON is the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Yale University, Richard March Hoe Professor, Emeritus of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director Emeritus of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Eddie Glaude Jr. - African American Religion
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2002. He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America, University of Chicago Press, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Howard Gardner - Excellence, Engagement and Ethics
In this series of videos "60 Seconds with ..." I've asked each person to tell me (in a minute or less) about that one special teacher who made a difference in their life.