Weird History Food is cooking up some BBQ for you. Food historians and culinary experts often disagree on where barbecuing traditions started. BBQ joints and backyard parties across the nation play host to their distinctive seasonings...

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...

MOT 1935: DRAMATIZATION: Leadbelly in prison stripes holding guitar having conversation w/ John Lomax asking for help to get out of prison Lomax paying compliment on singing saying he'll try.

Over the weekend, the Republican Party in Texas finalised its official party platform. The platform was extreme, with clauses on everything from election integrity, homosexuality, and even Texan secession, which they want a referendum on...

As the US becomes more and more divided some are hoping for big changes - maybe even as big as secession (when one or more states break away from the union altogether). So in this video, we explain how secession would work in practice...

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm made landfall as it was...

Texas' heartbeat law is a new controversial piece of legislation that cracks down hard on abortion access, making it virtually impossible. Biden's administration isn't exactly keen on that, and have blocked the bill thus far. So in this...

A detective agency in Dallas, Texas, is being run by men who were wrongly convicted of crimes of which they were later cleared. One of them, Christopher Scott, confronts Alonso Hardy, who confessed to having committed the crime for which...

New Texan anti-abortion laws are putting women’s lives at risk, according to pro-choice campaigners. But pro-life activists claim they are protecting women from an out-of-control abortion industry. Leah Green visits the state as the...

Skip To My Lou is a popular nursery rhyme that will have you singing along and tapping your feet to the catchy music. This song, a favourite of babies, toddlers and preschoolers, makes learning a lot of fun.

Latina labor leader, Emma Tenayuca, led a major food-industry strike in her early 20s and was eventually ostracized for her political beliefs.

WHEREAS she once drank 3,500 calorie milkshakes through a funnel to intentionally gain weight, new mum Monica Riley has now swapped funnel feeds for bottle feeds. Dining out on up to 10,000 calories a day, Monica Riley, 29, of Fort...

Liquid mirrors are lighter, simpler, faster to construct, and ten times cheaper than conventional glass mirrors

Sure, sharks are dangerous, but these 10 animals are way more scary than them! Here are the 10 Deadliest Animals on Earth! Jason Statham - take note'

When Woody Harrelson first rose to fame on the sitcom Cheers in 1985, his father had already made headlines for a much more nefarious reason. Charles Voyde Harrelson was given two life sentences for the murder of Texas judge John H. Wood...

Based on the polling and demographics shifts, some people are seriously discussing the chances of a Biden/Democratic win in Texas and Georgia. So in this video we discuss if that's actually looking possible, if Biden could win Texas and...

This video looks at the documents conceived in a period when the civil rights of women and Native Americans were in question, and slavery was driving a wedge between slaveholders and abolitionists. Educators from noted American...

Texas's latest legislative session has just come to an end, but the controversy seems to be only just beginning with some very republican, conservative laws being passed. These laws relate to the open carry of guns, changes to abortion...

Learn more about the crisis that led to the American Civil War.

Health care reform has become a major political issue in the United States. There are high costs for patients as well as the consequences of having millions of uninsured Americans. With many recent legislative votes on health care, the...

The Presidency of the United States is the most powerful position in the nation, and is often referred to as the “leader of the free world”. Their power is only equaled by the massive responsibility they hold. They are not always...

Galveston could sink 25 inches as sea-level rise combines with a continental sagging effect to cause increased coastal flooding.

MOT 1941: TEXAS TRAVELLERS: MS Douglas DC-2 Airplane at airport. MS Texans down airplane steps. MS Men in cowboy hats standing at train station talking. DRAMATIZATION: MS Texans talking about how big Texas is (SOT). WS Travellers on...

AN AMATEUR sleuth turned private detective has devoted her life to cracking unsolved crimes after helping to track down the killer of her college friend 26 years after her death. Sheila Wysocki, 55, who now lives in Tennessee, met Angela...