Instructional Video14:34
Crash Course

Progressive Presidents Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Presidents, who are not a super-group of former presidents who create complicated, symphonic, rock soundscapes that transport you into a fantasy fugue state. Although that would be...
Instructional Video10:36
Weird History

Jealous of the Teddy Bear, How President Taft Tried to Make Billy Possum Happen

12th - Higher Ed
Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt battled it out in the election of 1912, even though Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor just four years earlier. What made the Republicans turn on each other? And did the...
Instructional Video15:07
Crash Course

Progressive Presidents

9th - 12th Standards
Discover the motivations and policies of progressive presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The video discusses how the presidents handled the domestic...