In the late 1700s, three major revolutions changed the course of history in the name of freedom and equality. The Age of Revolutions bore witness to this change.

The Enlightenment may not have left physical evidence behind like the pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum of Rome, but it has left us an intellectual heritage which is unquestionable in its importance. This video looks at key ideas that...

The Enlightenment may not have left physical evidence behind like the pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum of Rome, but it has left us an intellectual heritage which is unquestionable in its importance. This video looks at how one of the...

Everyone's talking about the "Internet of Things," but what exactly does that mean for our future? In this thoughtful talk, economist Marco Annunziata looks at how technology is transforming the industrial sector, creating machines that...

The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era -- where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, he...

In which John Green teaches you about the presidency of Andrew Jackson So how did a president with astoundingly bad fiscal policies end up on the $20 bill? That's a question we can't answer, but we can tell you how Jackson got to be...

Generative AI is poised to transform the workplace, but we still need human brains for new ideas, says marketing expert Jessica Apotheker. She explores how marketers can find their niche in the world of AI based on their preference for...

In this video we explore the contrasting positions taken on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, key voices in an ideological debate that shaped British radicalism and conservatism for decades.

In this video Bryonie Pritchard reads Anna Barbauld's 'Sins of Government, Sins of Nation' from 1793. This powerful anti-war piece of writing was published as Britain went to war with Revolutionary France.

Over the last four episodes, we’ve examined some of the stories that make up the idea of a “revolution” in knowledge-making in Europe. But we can’t understand this idea fully, without unpacking another one—the so called Age of...

The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the Enlightenment had liberated the people, and led to...

Jack Meyers' The Tao of Leadership explores the intersection of leadership, technology, and human creativity in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing on the ancient principles of Taoism—harmony, flexibility, balance, and...

In 1848, Europe experienced a wave of revolutions. Last week we covered some of the reform movements that presaged these uprisings. This week, we're learning about what the people wanted from the revolutions, who was involved, and how...

In the Heart of the Sea is fun movie that shows the travails of the Essex, whose 1820 adventure was the inspiration for Melville's famous Moby Dick. It has perhaps the best showing of what it was like to sail in the Golden Age of...

The stunning history of a free, democratic community of black people in the age of American Slavery='http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/north-americas-largest-act-of-slave-resistance' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Slavery...

In the summer of 1892, steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania went on strike after plans to cut pay were announced. The violence that followed was a pivotal moment in the struggle for workers’ rights in the United States.

This video tells the story of Louis Joseph and Louis Charles, the two biological sons of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. It explores their childhoods, their health struggles and their deaths. Louis Joseph died at the age of seven from...

Feudalism was dying. In the age of globe-spanning colonial empires, commercial printing, and the scientific revolution, the idea of a state held together by a myriad of personal arrangements between ruler and nobility was beginning to...

This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery.



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Elizabeth Schuyler is born on August 9, 1757 in Albany to a wealthy Dutch family. A tomboy as a child, she grows into a strong-willed and impulsive woman and soon meets her future husband Alexander Hamilton. The two marry in less than a...

When did civilization start? Where were the first civilizations? Learn about the roots of early human history. A simple direct explanation of the Neolithic Age.

The Gilded Age was a period of unprecedented industrial and economic growth in the United States – but were the men at the helm captains of industry or robber barons out for their own?

Scientists are now hoping to cure diseases by editing the faulty genes that cause them. But we are still learning about the complex working of the human genome. What are the risks when you tinker with a genetic code that we only...

Like Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, ancient China represents a hydraulic civilization—one that maintained its population by diverting rivers to aid in irrigation—and one that developed writing thousands of years ago. Today, we’re going...