Instructional Video12:31
Crash Course

The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young...
Instructional Video13:46
Crash Course

Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. The growing suspicion of expertise is a growing problem on the internet, and it can be very difficult to figure out which sources are...
Instructional Video13:47
Crash Course

The Reagan Revolution Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about what is often called the Reagan Era. Mainly, it covers the eight years during which a former actor who had also been governor of the state of California was president of the United States. John will...
Instructional Video13:05
Crash Course

Globalization II - Good or Bad Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth, and lifted a lot of people out of poverty, it also has some effects that aren't so hot. Wealth disparity,...
Instructional Video11:42
Crash Course

Buddha and Ashoka Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets into the reign of Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor who, in spite of Buddhism's structural...
Instructional Video12:45
Crash Course

Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the economic malaise that beset the United States in the 1970s. A sort of perfect storm of events, it combined the continuing decline of America's manufacturing base and the oil shocks of 1973 and...
Instructional Video11:30
Crash Course

Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily uprooting the dynastic system that had ruled there for millennia. Most revolutions have some...
Instructional Video14:24
Crash Course

The New Deal Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the New Deal, which was president Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to pull the united States out of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Did it work? Maybe. John will teach you about some of the most...
Instructional Video10:34
Crash Course

The Agricultural Revolution Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to become agriculturalists, and how that change has influenced the world we live in today. Also, there are some...
Instructional Video10:50
Crash Course

The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our traditional perception of the Crusades as European Colonization thinly veiled in religion isn't quite right. John...
Instructional Video11:07
Crash Course

Web Search

12th - Higher Ed
Today we’re going to talk about search engines, which are just AI systems that try to help us find what we’re looking for. Search engines can be the sort that serve up a list of results, like during a Google or Bing search, using web...
Instructional Video4:24
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and...
Instructional Video11:49
Crash Course

Haitian Revolutions Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos. Although freedom was breaking out all over, many of the societies that were touting these ideas...
Instructional Video9:37
Crash Course

Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you the history of the Indian Ocean Trade. John weaves a tale of swashbuckling adventure, replete with trade in books, ivory, and timber. Along the way, John manages to cover advances in seafaring technology,...
Instructional Video10:36
Crash Course

The Atlantic Slave Trade Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans and colonists in the Americas arrived at...
Instructional Video11:44
Crash Course

Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.
Instructional Video10:22
Crash Course

The Civil War Part 2 Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you how the Civil War played a large part in making the United States the country that it is today. He covers some of the key ways in which Abraham Lincoln influenced the outcome of the war, and how the lack...
Instructional Video12:12
Crash Course

Growth, Cities, and Immigration Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the...
Instructional Video10:29
Crash Course

Alexander the Great and the Situation ... the Great Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which you are introduced to the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great, his empire, his horse Bucephalus, the empires that came after him, and the idea of Greatness. Is greatness a question of accomplishment, of impact, or...
Instructional Video11:43
Crash Course

The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or...Which Was It Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green explores exactly when Rome went from being the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Here's a hint: it had something to do with Julius Caesar, but maybe less than you think. Find out how Caesar came to rule the empire,...
Instructional Video13:00
Crash Course

Women's Suffrage Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made...
Instructional Video11:29
Crash Course

The Seven Years War Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John teaches you about the Seven Years War, which may have lasted nine years. Or as many as 23. It was a very confusing was. The Seven Years War was a global war, fought on five continents, which is kind of a lot. John focuses...
Instructional Video10:52
Crash Course

Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American...
Instructional Video11:05
Crash Course

The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the...