The 30th anniversary celebration of the Woodstock music festival took place in Rome, NY, from July 22-25, 1999. But what was originally conceived as a modern homage to the landmark hippie-fueled musical lovefest of the 1960s ended up...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government agency that tracks and apprehends illegal aliens. But when its officers caged children on the Mexico border, young people stood up for change.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were the first US citizens to be convicted and executed for sharing government secrets during peacetime. Were they innocent?

NEW YORK: UNITED STATES - AUGUST 4: The $25,000 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate at Serendipity 3 restaurant on August 4, 2010 in New York, United States. The mind boggling £15,730 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate is on offer at New York's famous...

In a world dominated by mainly caucasian dancers, Native American Maria Tallchief overcame discrimination to become the United States’ first prima ballerina.

How does this map help us understand what Christopher Columbus did? What is interesting yet useful about the other mysterious map?<br/>
Maps That Made America, Part 5

Dana's Triumph part 4/4: The video is about a fashion show that raised money for metastatic breast cancer research. The show featured models who were metastatic breast cancer patients, highlighting their struggle with the disease. The...

Dianna from Physics Girl interviews an ER Nurse Practitioner and an Epidemiologist about their experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Classical violinist Joseph Henry Douglass helped empower the Black community through music and education at a time when Southern lawmakers were pushing back against the progress of Reconstruction.

“The West can turn around its post-9/11 crisis of self-confidence & decline” Twenty years on from the 11th September attacks we could still witness a return of confidence and initiative to the West. The Telegraph’s Leader Writer Tim...

What can you do at a German post office? How do you send a package from Germany to the USA? How much does it cost to send a package from Germany to the USA? All of these questions and more are taught in this A1/A2 German...

A British Airways Boeing 747-400 set the record for the fastest ever subsonic flight across the Atlantic on Sunday. <br/>

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.



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LaGuardia International Airport is being renovated in a push to modernize the aging airport.

You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...

"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th...

MOT 1939: NEW YORK CITY POLICE: Policemen getting into patrol boat (#11) at waterfront. HA WS NYPD Police boat pulling up along side ship in harbor. Policeman getting into airplane. Policemen manning dispatch radios working teletype...

MOT 1953: TOLSTOY FARM: WS Woody station wagon turning into property drive, driving long driveway, stopping by house, adults supervising children playing in front yard FG, Westbrook Van Voorhis in coat stepping out of car, walking to,...

Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone....

MOT 1936: IN EXILE: Liberal Dominican Angel Morales organizing pro-Democracy meeting against Trujillo. DRAMATIZATION: Murder of exiled Interior Minister Sergio Bencosme. List of enemies of Santo Domingo (Trujillo) that have been killed.

Montaukett leader David Pharaoh fought for indigenous land rights – and established a lasting legacy as the founder of America’s first Montaukett school.

Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced...

High school students from Democracy Prep school in the South Bronx, New York, compete against young people across the US at a ‘speech’ competition at Yale University, a form of competitive acting. Last year’s champion, Stephen, is hoping...