Instructional Video15:14
TED Talks

TED: The mission to safeguard Black history in the US | Julieanna L. Richardson

12th - Higher Ed
Black history in the US is rich, profound -- and at risk of being lost forever, if not for the monumental efforts of Julieanna L. Richardson. As the founder of The HistoryMakers -- the largest national archive of African American...
Instructional Video4:36
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Annette Gordon-Reed - Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy

Higher Ed
Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Harvard University, wrote a groundbreaking book in the 1990s examining the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman at Monticello. Initially interested in how...
Instructional Video3:07
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill Ayers - Education as a Human Right

Higher Ed
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in...
Instructional Video13:27
Mazz Media

Let's Talk About: Diabetes

6th - 8th
Type 2 diabetes is reaching near-epidemic levels. It is a serious health condition affecting millions of people and increasing their risk for additional health issues. More young people have been diagnosed with diabetes than ever before....
Instructional Video6:22
Blank on Blank

Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine | Blank on Blank

9th - 11th
"Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at Colorado State University Hear more interview outtakes and learn more about Temple
Instructional Video12:16
Weird History

What Happened After The Polio Vaccine Was Invented?

12th - Higher Ed
As a disease that afflicted thousands of children, adolescents, and adults each year, polio was devastating and incurable. Polio led to paralysis and, in many cases, death. With no cure available, vaccination was the only real hope.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Children's Crusade, Audrey Hendricks

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Audrey Hendricks recalls her arrest and jailing at the age of nine for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:00]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Children's Crusade, Washington Booker, Iii

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Washington Booker recalls being arrested and jailed for participating in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:17]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Miriam Mc Clendon

9th - 10th
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Miriam McClendon recalls her arrest and jailing for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:22]