Videos

Trace the rise and fall of the Maya city Chichen Itza, and how Yucatán’s unpredictable environment contributed to its demise. – During the 8th century CE, warfare and failing agriculture forced Maya people to move north, to hotter...

Dig into Operation Paperclip, a secret intelligence program which brought scientists from Nazi Germany to the US after WWII. – In May of 1945 the Third Reich was in chaos. Adolf Hitler was dead and German surrender was imminent. But...

Footage of the German airship catching fire, crashing and burning to the ground: This original footage from the British Pathe archive shows impressive shots of the Hindenburg flying overhead on on Thursday, May 6, 1937, flying over its landing...

Herod's Harbor was a giant ancient port built between 22 and 15 BCE by Herod the Great. Situated on the lower eastern Mediterranean coast, this structure, as it serviced the city of Caesarea Maritima, was an engineering feat and visual wonder...

In this episode of The Abolitionists, Karl from @InrangeTv joins me on a road trip to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia so we can examine John Brown's 1859 raid from a fresh strategic perspective. Watch Karl's companion video about the Sharps...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-legislation-that-birthed-the-republican-party-ben-labaree-jr You may think that things are heated in Washington today, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had members of Congress so angry...

In this video, we'll learn about the US Supreme Court decision in Scott vs Sanford, handed down in 1857. The case ultimately rejected the idea that Black people could be citizens of the United States, and this helped entrench the institution...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a law that required citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. It was highly controversial and contributed to tensions between the North and South leading up to the Civil War. The...

One of the ways that the US Constitution baked the institution of slavery into the very core of the new United States was through the fugitive slave clause. The clause required that people who escaped slavery be returned to their enslavers...

Discover the real Harriet Tubman in this compelling documentary narrated by Alfrelynn Roberts and featuring expert interviews with leading scholars, including Dr. Eric Lewis Williams of the Smithsonian Institute and Carl Westmoreland of the...