Learn more about the concept of Manifest Destiny and how it influenced U.S. history.

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Six Day War

Mark Takahashi talks about his family’s experience with Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. After Pearl Harbor and the issuing of Executive Order 9066, Mark's paternal and maternal grandparents, Toyo and Seytsu, were sent to...

In our society, most people have to have jobs. But what qualifies as a job? How do we determine who is part of the labor force? How has globalization impacted the labor force? We've all heard terms like outsourcing and offshoring, what...

What stayed with her after the war? Why does she want to keep telling her story?<br/>
Voices of the Victims, Ruth Becker, Part 3

All lyrics and music by Matt Beat. All rights reserved. All pictures in the public domain. By day, Matt Beat is a high school history teacher. By night, the multi-instrumentalist writes and records songs about dead Presidents. Actual...

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented all immigration of Chinese laborers. Chinese immigrants were detained at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay at the turn of the 20th century because of the Exclusion Act. This audio story...

More people need to understand creative destruction and the economic circle of life.

A regents based Social Studies lecture for US History and Government. Theme based, this lecture seeks to give you an overview of US involvement in WWI.

The Battle of the Bulge was Nazi Germany’s final attempt to wrestle back control of the war on the Western Front. It would see German forces advance on a 55 mile, or 90 kilometre front between eastern Luxembourg and the Eifel mountains...

The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable.



National University of Singapore's Dr. Kishore Mahbubani talks with INET President Rob Johnson about how both countries can learn...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan ended World War II in 1945. At the time, Americans were happy the war was over and some people even wanted to drop more atomic bombs. This radio story describes how Americans’...

Senator Joseph McCarthy led a crusade against Soviet spies he believed were operating in the United States government. He called Democrats "soft" on the war on communism. This audio story describes why the American public's view of...

Is America facing a retirement crisis?  Teresa Ghilarducci, Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research says yes, but that we can still save retirement.  In this episode of INET...

Australian farmers produce nearly half of the world's supply of opiates and new painkiller regulation in the US is hurting their business.

Why do Americans spend every 4th of July blowing stuff up? What does that have to do with celebrating their independence from Britain and the birth of their country? Not a whole lot, but it's something that they've always done.

Weird History Food is reliving the sugary soda wars between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi were invented during the late 1800s, and over the course of the 20th century, they competed for dominance across the globe....

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Mexican-American War

Americans usually hug when saying 'hello' or 'good-bye'. But sometimes it's a handshake instead -- and sometimes it gets awkward! In this video, Rachel goes over when to hug and when to shake hands in American culture.

Learn the basics for the test (or life) about the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

In 1851, the US government passed the Indian Appropriations Act, creating reservation lands for Native Americans. For decades prior, the US government had forcefully moved and abused Native American tribes, most notably through the...

Americans seem very afraid of cancer. Much of this fear is legitimate. Cancer is a significant cause of death. Unlike other causes, it often seems to come out of nowhere. It's the "silent killer". But evidence increasingly argues that...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Franco-Syrian War

Foreign exchange practice questions.