In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about The Real Last Samurai

I told you I'd get around to Polk eventually, didn't I? Yes that's right it's time to learn about the man who incorporated Oregon Country, Texas, and almost the entire American Southwest into the US of A, and dive head-first into...

MOT 1939: MEXICO PRESIDENT CARDENAS: EXT MS President Lazaro Cardenas sitting at table w/ male assistants. MS Cardenas talking (no SOT). CU Border post 'Republica Mexicana.' WS Mexican landscape, mountains BG, cactuses FG.

MOT 1940: MEXICO EMBASSY: EXT Franklin MacVeagh House w/ Mexican flag (Mexico Embassy). INT Men at desks looking at papers. Ambassador Francisco Najera (1886-1954) standing w/ cigarette talking w/ reporters. CU Najera talking.

This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about several different countries. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...

For hundreds of years, history left us wondering what disease killed the Aztecs in the mid-1500s. Many assumed the Aztecs were one of many Central American groups to be wiped out by European diseases like smallpox. However, DNA testing...

MOT 1935: MEXICO INDUSTRIAL: WS Factory mill. VS Mexican factory workers at pay, cash window. EXT MS Group of workers walking. MS President Lazaro Cardenas w/ crowd, shaking man's hand, entering car.

MOT 1943: MEXICO RELIGION: MS Mexican women carrying children on street. WS Mexicans entering church. INT WS Religious ceremony, altar, priest. WS Mexicans praying. MS Woman on their knees at altar. MS Woman, arms spread, praying. MS...

National Expansion (1832-1848) American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In...

In this episode we examine the topic: Santa Muerte: The Folk Saint of Death

MOT 1939: MEXICO SQUARE: EXT VS Mexican soldiers w/ rifles sitting on cabin porch. HA WS Town square, buses, traffic, pedestrians. WS Cars driving, buildings BG. VS People crowded outside of 'Camara de Senadores' entrance.

MOT 1946: MEXICO CITY: CU 'Mexico' illustrated poster. WS Mexico City. WS La Plaza de la Constitucion (AKA El Zocalo) building. WS Cattle on street, trucks FG. VS Cars, buildings, Mexicans riding burros (or donkey) on street. VS...

SDO will help scientists better understand solar variability and aid in predictions of space weather. Ka band dishes at White Sands, New Mexico will be the go-between the satellite and the Mission Control Center at Goddard Space Flight...

With gang violence taking over the streets of Haiti, their acting President has called on foreign assistance to quell the unrest, with the US looking like the only real candidate to intervene. But given their history with the country, is...

In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and journalists are killed at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice has emerged: Lupita, a Tzotzil-Maya woman at the forefront of a Mexican indigenous movement. Twenty...

Thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala head north hoping to find work and a better life in the US. The largest Central American caravan in decades keeps growing as thousands more join this journey – but when they...

In Juchitán, Mexico, muxes – children identified as male at birth, but who choose at a young age to be raised as female – are embraced as part of the community.

The high cost of college in California is prompting students to cross the Mexican border in search of affordable options. CETYS, a private university with campuses in three Mexican border towns, currently enrolls over 300 California...

The 34th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. I hope to have them done by Election Day 2016. In 1920, Americans deal with the aftermath of World War 1 and apparently are hungry...

This is the best video about the Compromise of 1850 ever made. It was also the first educational video Mr. Beat ever made. If you are watching this, you are watching history...about history.

Archeologists have used laser scanning to chart an ancient 100 km-long Mayan highway built 13 centuries ago. <br/>

This video explores the fascinating history and resilience of the ancient grain, amaranth. From its origins in Mesoamerica and its importance to the Aztec civilization, to its condemnation by the Spanish conquistadors and subsequent...

In which John discusses The Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s, a story from U.S. History he learned about only recently.

Kidnapping has created a growing insurance industry, which regulates ransom demands and saves lives. But it's a complicated business model in which poorer victims are losing out. Read more hereref='https://econ.st/2S97rrl'...