Kateri Tekakwitha's journey from a Mohawk village to Catholic sainthood reflects the intertwined tales of faith and colonization in 17th century America.

As the Great Depression worsened in the 1930s, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and eventually their homes. Shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles” named after unsympathetic President Herbert Hoover, spread across the U.S.

In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Americans were recruited across the United States to protect and preserve the country's forests, parks, and fields. The Civilian Conservation Corps, a voluntary work relief program, was way ahead...

UNAVOIDABLE CONNECTEDNESS: Professor Kondrashov talks about the need to do more basic research which can only be done with sufficient government funding which may be negatively impacted by the pandemic, how the pandemic has highlighted...

MITIGATING THE MENACE: Professor Dunn talks about how drastic and systemic the impact of the COVID-1 pandemic was, how democracy does not necessarily give any guarantee for collective security and how it is not certain that any kind of...

The 7 Key Challenges of Crisis Leadership, proposed by Boin, 't Hart, and van Esch, is a framework consisting of strategic approaches to managing crisis in a firm.

Going to college in America ain't cheap with each semester costing thousands upon thousands of dollars. How do American students pay for this and how did the price tag get so high? Today, Danielle takes a dive into the student debt...

For the last 10 days Extinction Rebellion has blocked roads, railways and bridges in a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience. Now that the period of action has wound down, Owen Jones asks some of the organisers what they have achieved,...

When the remote town of St Just, Cornwall, was locked down in March 2020, the small community worried that its economy wouldn't survive. But one town councillor, Daisy Gibbs, rallied an army of volunteers to form 'the Daisy chain', an...

What is Really Considered a Suicidal Thought?

Price gouging during a crisis is universally frowned upon and punishable by law in most states... so why would economists say it's actually not a bad thing?

What is Crisis Management? Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.

Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes how, in politics, the explanation of a crisis often points to a solution.

Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how his outlook to life has been irrevocably affected by a deep sense of crisis that is common to many people who grow up in Asia.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how his own upbringing in India is marked by a sense of crisis that he shares with other figures in other places and times.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his youthful career anxiety and his excitement that science could be about people rather than just assessing magnetic field lines.

Taisho Democracy | 3 Minute History

In 2011, a scandal broke in psychology that made everyone question whether any of its research could really be believed. For the last decade, psychology has grappled with the aftermath and has tried to understand what went wrong. The...

If you were in a mental health crisis and called for emergency services, who would you want coming to your aid? Right now in the US, local police have shouldered the burden of this kind of crisis response. But...should they? If we agree...

In this video we will rank the European Union (EU) as if it were a country on the Economics Explained National Leaderboard, after exploring the economic challenges and opportunities facing all current member states. The EU collectively...

Economist Nouriel Roubini discusses potential Economic Megathreats including the end of globalization, easy money leading to stagflation, the growing debt crisis, AI's threat to worker and consumer-based economies, and climate change....

A ten minute regents based concept lecture aimed at the heart of the United States History Regents Exam as it related to Cold War. Part 4 of 4.

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