The life and career of Bernie Sanders, the independent US Senator from Vermont who is running for the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton.

Over 200 years, British settlers successfully founded the Thirteen Colonies, driven by desires for religious freedom, self-governance, and economic opportunities.

The European colonization of North America was largely influenced by geography. In the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies, the land and conditions varied. So how did settlers take advantage of their environments to establish the...

New England is a beautiful region of the United States. But while the entire region is made up of 6 full states, Massachusetts is very dominant in terms of population and economy. In fact, Massachusetts by itself has more than twice the...

The weather down here can get pretty crazy. But we got curious and asked: just how extreme can weather actually get on planet earth? So we decided to travel the world in search of answers and discovered not only some fascinating answers,...

With unprecedented heat waves and record-breaking global temperatures, it’s hard to believe that there might be a place on earth that has actually COOLED since the industrial revolution.

Lawyer, orator and politician, Daniel Webster was one of the United States’ most famous and accomplished people in the 19th century. But what made him so special and how did he help change America?

Students discover facts about the famous poet, Robert Frost, as Mr. Griot reads and discusses a brief biography.

Born into slavery on George Washington's plantation, Ona Judge's daring escape highlights the ideological contradictions of personal liberty in early America.

This video will discuss the establishment of the New England colonies and early colonial life there.

MOT 1935: AMOSKEAG FUND RAISING: WS Busy Manchester street, New Hampshire. VS Ex Mayor Arthur Moreau, Union Leader Edmund Jewell meeting w/ president of company, men writing checks. CU Counting checks. CU Newspaper '$4,500,000 Paid...'

Stephen H. Long mapped much of the unexplored American West – but he made one big mistake that set Western migration back decades.