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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 1
In which John Green teaches you about World War II. John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how involved America was before Congress actually declared war. John will actually talk a little about the military...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Great Depression
In which John Green teaches you about the Great Depression. So, everybody knows that the Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929, right? Not exactly. The Depression happened after the stock market crash, but wasn't...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Cold War in Asia
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War as it unfolded in Asia. As John pointed out previously, the Cold War was occasionally hot, and a lot of that heat was generated in Asia. This is starting to sound weird with the hot/cold...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: American Imperialism
In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism. In the late 19th century, the great powers of Europe were running around the world obtaining colonial possessions, especially in Africa and Asia. The United States, which as a young...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: Human Population Growth
Hank is here to tell us the specifics of why and how human population growth has happened over the past hundred and fifty years or so, and how those specifics relate to ecology. [10:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Market Revolution
John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic American struggle between the Jeffersonian ideal...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Reagan Revolution
In which John Green teaches you about what is often called the Reagan Era. John will teach you about Reagan's election victory over the hapless Jimmy Carter, tax cuts, Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights, union busting, and the Iran-Contra...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Naked Eye Observations
Host Phil Plait invites you to head outside and take a look at all the incredible things you can see with your naked eye. Learn about constellations, and the visible stars and planets that can be found in the night sky. The brightness...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Progressive Presidents
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Presidents. The presidents most associated with the Progressive Era are Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. During the times these guys held office, trusts were...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Natives and the English
John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people they encountered in the New World. In short, these relations were poor. As soon as they arrived, the English were in conflict with the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Gerrymandering
In this episode, we'll discuss a topic that makes voters and politicians alike angry - gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the process in which voting districts are redrawn in a way to favor one party during elections. As you'll see, this...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Discrimination
In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of discrimination by looking more closely at those discrete and insular minorities referenced in the 14th Amendment. We'll talk about instances of discrimination of Asian, European, and Latino...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Public Opinion
In this episode, we talk about politics and public opinion - specifically how the public does (and does not) influence our elected officials. [9:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Market Economy
How does the government plays a role in the economy? Specifically, the way the government creates and maintains our market economic system. [9:36]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: America in World War I
In which John Green teaches you about American involvement in World War I, which at the time was called the Great War. The United States stayed out of World War I at first, because Americans were in an isolationist mood in the early 20th...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Federalism
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about federalism, or the idea that in the United States, power is divided between the national government and the 50 state governments. Craig will teach you about how federalism has evolved over the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Rise of Conservatism
In which John Green teaches you about the rise of the conservative movement in United States politics. So, the sixties are often remembered for the liberal changes that the decade brought to America, but lest you forget, Richard Nixon...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Battles of the Civil War
In which John Green lists a whole lot of the battles of the US Civil War in seven and a half minutes. We get a lot of requests for military history, so we offer a list of battle names, with some commentary about outcomes and lots of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Introduction to Astronomy
Host Phil Plait explains the nature and origins of the field of astronomy. Learn how ancient humans observed the sky and associated the patterns they found there with farming and the seasons on Earth. Early astronomers developed an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Binary and Multiple Stars
Double stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they're gravitationally bound together we call them binary stars. Many stars are actually part of binary or multiple systems. In some close binaries matter can...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women in the 19th Century
In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes. Things were also in a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Introduction
In which Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function, and we'll get into how it...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: The History of Life on Earth
Life is powerful, and in order to understand how living systems work, you first have to understand how they originated, developed and diversified over the past 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. Hang on to your hats as Hank tells us...