The Wall Street Journal
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed on American Ideals
The nation's founders set an ambitious American idea and ideal. Getting there takes time, experience, and social evolution.
Curated Video
HBCUs Are In Danger. If We Lose Them, We Lose The American Ideal Of Education. | Think | NBC News
For nearly 200 years, historically black colleges and universities have educated tens of thousands of students. But what was once 120 schools is now 101, as HBCUs struggle with financial woes, accreditation and declining enrollment. In...
The March of Time
1941: AMERICAN IDEAL: MS 'God Bless America' pennant on wall. Newcomers bulleting board w/ 'Please Speak English Only' posting. AMERICANIZATION CLASS: Group of adults reading at table, male reading 'The Constitution of the United States' booklet.
MOT 1941: AMERICAN IDEAL: MS 'God Bless America' pennant on wall. Newcomers bulleting board w/ 'Please Speak English Only' posting. AMERICANIZATION CLASS: Group of adults reading at table, male reading 'The Constitution of the United...
Curated Video
Agile Masterclass: Agile for Project Management - Introducing the Course and Your Instructor
This clip is from the chapter "Welcome to the Course" of the series "Agile Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming".This section introduces you to the course.
TED Talks
Benjamin Wallace: The price of happiness
Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Kopi Luwak coffee. His critique...
Curated Video
Estimating Fractions with Area Models
This video lesson teaches students how to estimate and solve real-world fraction problems using area models. It provides examples and step-by-step instructions on how to calculate, estimate, and compare fractions.
Curated Video
John Rollin Ridge: the Native American Novelist Like No Other
We've had some great American Novelists? You've read some of them in school, right? But one writer you've probably never heard of is John Rollin Ridge, aka Yellow Bird: the first Native American to ever publish a novel about a fictitious...
Bill Carmody
Factors Driving the American Business Environment
This video discusses the eight factors driving the American business environment: competition, regulation, innovation, consumer demand, talent and workforce, access to capital, technology, and globalization. It highlights how these...
After Skool
End of the American Dream: Wealth Inequality Explained in 2-Minutes
This video is NOT suggesting that we punish those who have worked hard to achieve success. It is trying to point out a major flaw in the system. If an entire student body fails a class, then something must be wrong. The teacher isn't...
Hip Hughes History
The Filibuster Explained: American Government Review
Great for obscure Jeopardy questions, uncomfortable dinner party conversations and introductory classes for students of U.S. Government. Also ideal for trolls, internet demons and random strangers who accidentally find there way to his...
Curated Video
Viva La France
Dr. Forrester discusses the influences of American ideals and their influence on the French Revolution.
SciShow
Motor Proteins Tiny Pirates in Your Cells
To some they look like bow-legged cowboys. To others, swaggering pirates. Either way, the two-legged molecules known as motor proteins are what get the job of living done in most of your cells.
TED Talks
George Takei: Why I love a country that once betrayed me
When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a "security" measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal...
Curated Video
The Great Gatsby: Characters, Plot, and Setting
"The Great Gatsby" is narrated by Nick Carraway, and observer to the story of Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic millionaire chasing the American Dream in the hopes of reclaiming his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, despite the societal divide and her...
Curated Video
The Negro League Baseball: Shattering Segregation
Like much of American in the early 19th century, sports were segregated. But with the newly established Negro Baseball League, African American baseball players overcame racial segregation to claim the national pastime as their own.
Curated Video
Our Sun
Through telescopic video and photos combined with animated graphics, students will learn about the layers of the sun and its effects on earth, the moon and all the objects in our solar system and the universe.
Cerebellum
America's Documents Of Freedom 1775-1786 - The Declaration Of Independence 1776
The documents our predecessors left for us contain a written record of our history, and bear witness to why we are who we are and how our democracy evolved. In this video we look at the documents that come from the tumultuous...
SciShow
The Real Mayan Apocalypse
There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery behind the collapse of the Mayan civilization....
Sotheby's
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s Romantic Vision of the American Frontier
In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, explore Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's Indians Attacking a Wagon Train, a strikingly dynamic vision of the American frontier. Perhaps best known for his depictions of iconic moments in American...
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: African American Soldiers | Biography
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 to April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States and is regarded as one of America's greatest heroes due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of the slaves. His rise from...
Bozeman Science
Transport Across Cell Membranes
Paul Andersen describes how cells move materials across the cell membrane. All movement can be classified as passive or active. Passive transport, like diffusion, requires no energy as particles move along their gradient. Active...
Bozeman Science
Kirchhoff's Junction Rule
In this video Paul Andersen explains how Kirchhoff's Junction Rule can be applied to series and parallel circuits. Kirchhoff's Junction Rule is an application of the conservation of charge. The current into a junction will always equal...
Hip Hughes History
The Election of 1860 Explained
A summary of the most consequential Presidential Election in US History, the election of Abraham Lincoln.