Reading Through History
History Brief: The Nazification of Germany
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Vlogbrothers
God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I
In which John discusses the causes of the French Revolution and its initial events, including the French debt crisis under King Louis XVI, the convocation of the estates general, the rise of the third estate, the formation of the...
Gresham College
Legal Process as a Tool to Rewrite History: Law, Politics and History - Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Trials at the ICTY concerned political violence and criminality that resulted from disintegration of a federation from which seven new successors states were formed. That process has been defined as a 'clash of state projects', where...
The Cynical Historian
The History of American Veterans
Veterans’ part in American history has been more important than you would typically think, and I’m not talking about their time during war. That’s military history. It’s when they return, what veterans have done to shape this country. In...
Clarendon Learning
Overview of the Olympics for Kids | Learn all about the history of the olympic games
In our overview of the Olympics for Kids video you will learn all about the history of the olympic games and their importance back then and even today. We learn about the symbols of the olympics, when they started, olympic events, the...
The Cynical Historian
The historic importance of the Olympics
The Olympics are an important part of world history. They're a place to celebrate our differences, set global trends, make a statement worldwide, resist oppression, and revel in the glory of one’s country....
Clarendon Learning
Boston Tea Party for Kids | Learn about the History of the Boston Tea Party and why it happened
The History of the Boston Tea Party is important for Kids to understand. In this video we answer questions such as "What is the Boston Tea Party?" and "Why did the Boston Tea Party Happen?". We help students to learn all about this...
Curated Video
The importance of science: an outsider's perspective
'The importance of science: an outsider's perspective', Bill Bryson FRS in conversation with Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE. Award-winning author Bill Bryson speaks to Professor Jim Al-Khalili about his personal experiences and...
Curated Video
How To Get Rich! (in the 1800s) | Future Puppet News #5
Welcome back to Future Puppet News! Where puppets from the year 3000 travel through space and time to cover Earth's important historical events! The studio is abuzz with lotto fever as they select the Future Puppet Powerball Numbers! The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Blanco - "El Americano in the Mirror"
Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in Miami....
Gresham College
Britain's global trade in the Great Days of Sail - John McAleer
Britain's history has been shaped by its relationship with the sea. The possibilities and profits offered by maritime trade were particularly important in defining the country's development as a global power in the Age of Sail. Richly...
Curated Video
Mary Somerville and the Empire of Science in the Nineteenth Century
Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was a leading mathematician and author of important books on the sciences: it was in connection with a review of one of these that the term "scientist" first appeared in print. This talk examines her career in...
Wonderscape
History Kids: Causes of the Revolutionary War
In this educational video, we explore the events leading up to the American Revolution and the formation of a democratic government in the United States. We delve into the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, and the Boston Tea Party,...
IT'S HISTORY
Fall of the Iron Curtain I THE COLD WAR ENDS!
The Fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that stands out among the Revolutions of 1989 that ended the Cold War. The peaceful revolution and the German Reunification led to the Fall of the Iron Curtain altogether. But how did the events...
Natural History Museum
People and the planet | Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Our relationship with nature has never been more important. We rely on the natural world for so much, yet we are failing to support it in so many ways. Technological innovations in photography and the important work of wildlife...
SciShow Kids
How Compost Is Made: A Field Trip!
Composting is a way to turn scraps of food you aren't going to eat anymore into healthy soil for your garden! But how does food turn in to dirt?! Mister Brown and Squeaks take a trip to SoilCycle, a place that makes compost in their...
TED Talks
TED: The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — a home for lost stories | Tavares Strachan
Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back to his birthplace in the Bahamas or a gold, Egyptian-inspired sculpture he launched...
SciShow Kids
The Story of George Washington Carver | Amazing Scientists | SciShow Kids
Squeaks has a big problem! Every year, he grows lettuce in the Fort's greenhouse, but this year it just won't grow. Luckily, Mister Brown knows someone who can help Squeaks and his lettuce: botanist and inventor George Washington Carver!...
Curated Video
Juneteenth, explained
Why all Americans should honor this day. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO When American schoolchildren learn about chattel slavery in the US, we’re often told it ended with Abraham Lincoln’s signature on the Emancipation...
Gresham College
Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom - Professor Celia Deane-Drummond
Perhaps the distinguishing characteristic of Christianity compared with other religious traditions is belief in God incarnate in Christ, the Word made flesh. But what might this mean in the context of modern evolutionary understanding of...
Curated Video
How granite countertops took over American kitchens
Granite countertops are an American obsession. But how did they become so ubiquitous? Our nation's countertop history has had a few surprising twists and turns. This is the final episode in the first season of Overrated - you can learn...
Jack Rackam
The Rise and Fall of Babylon | The Life & Times of Hammurabi
We're going way back for this one, before Classical History, before the Iron Age, all the way back to the Bronze Age! Talkin' about the First Babylonian Empire, and how Hammurabi made it the greatest empire Mesopotamia had ever seen, and...
Cerebellum
Early Scientific Revolution - The Beginning Of Modern Science
Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....
Cerebellum
Early Scientific Revolution - Nicolaus Copernicus
Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....