The ancient hobbies of years gone by are fascinating and fraught with interesting facts that many of us might not know today. People of the past didn’t have the modern luxuries most of the developed world has now, so for entertainment, a...

MOT 1951: SCHOOL DAYS: EXT School yard w/ students of all ages dressed in coats, hats walking away from school building. Female teacher before high school classroom talking (no SOT). Americana, 1950s Middle America.

MOT 1951: TOPEKA, KANSAS: WS Downtown street scene w/ cars on four lane road through town, business buildings, bus in moving forward in left lane, old & newer cars on road, few pedestrians. Americana, 1950s Middle America, Heartland.

They were the Nike Air of their day – and they helped spark a sneaker revolution! Discover how Keds cornered the market for comfortable footwear in the 1950s and beyond.

The motto of the United States is: "In God We Trust." But the motto is a relatively recent invention, dating back to the 1950s. Why did the U.S. institute this motto, and what does it tell us about American identity and religion?

A film promoting fishing in the 1950s in South America sponsored by Johnson Motors, Panagra, Pan American World Airways and South Bend Bait Co. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational...

A U.S. Treasury Dept film about patriotism in America in the early 1950s. Takes place mostly around Las Cruces, New Mexico. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at...

We answered a viewer’s question about the decline of unionization. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos 📣 If the news feels chaotic to you...

We're going to Broadway, everybody, and it's not going to be that fun. In fact, it's going to be a very serious experience with lots of powerful social commentary and indictments of life in America in the 1950s. So be prepared to look at...

In 1950's the war between North Korea and South Korea displaced 100,000 orphans. The North Korean government decided to send some of them to Eastern Europe. On today's episode of Kult America we are visiting some of those orphanages...

In the years after WWII, Americans became more affluent than they had been in previous generations. Veterans were going to college and buying homes in droves, the population boomed, and cities around the country grew rapidly. ...

In which John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans,...

Watch this video to learn about Miller’s world and its influence on the play The Crucible. Discover 1950s America and the widespread fear of communism, which grew into the Red Scare and McCarthyism. We’ll unpack the Cold War, the...

Join us for an overview of Ray Bradbury’s world. We’ll show you how key issues and events in the real world shaped his ideas in Fahrenheit 451. Find out how the novel critiques key moments in history, including McCarthyism, 1950s...

Most Americans know the Red Scare of the 1950s but most don't know about the Lavender Scare which resulted in thousands of gays and lesbians being dismissed from the Federal Workforce. Join me for a super fast explanation of its roots...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor Elizabeth Frank credits J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" with pointing out the dreariness and hypocrisy of the early 1950's. "I think that The Catcher in the Rye was a very...

Traveling on the Pan American Highway through Central America in the 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for...

The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse. Subscribe to our channel!'http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>channel! Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, the workplace and the “third...

A World In Color production about the Okefenokee Swamp Park in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida in the 1950s. The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in...

Pupil outcome: I can assess the extent to which the American dream was experienced in the post-war period. Key learning points: - American incomes rose during the post-war period. - Americans began to buy more consumer goods after the...

A film about Dutch colonies in the Netherlands West Indies and Suriname, Dutch Guiana in the 1950s . To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

Martin Luther King Jr for Kids is a short documentary and overview about the great civil rights leader. Together we will learn about the monumental impact he had and still has throughout the world. MLK – They are three letters...

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It was supposed to be the future of housing. What went wrong? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos Why aren’t homes made of steel? In the...