Crash Course
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism: Crash Course Theater #20
Everyone knows, you need a bunch of rules to make good theater. That's what the French thought in the 17th century, anyway. The French Neoclassical revival had a BUNCH of French playwrights following a bunch of rules. Unsurprisingly,...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci
What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do glasses help us see? - Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert
Today, glasses help millions of people with poor vision be able to see clearly. But how? Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert help unravel the answer by explaining refraction - the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water, or...
Crash Course
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca: Crash Course Theater #6
In which Mike delves into the theater of ancient Rome. It wasn't all gladiators and Christian-killing, you know. There was theater, too. Roman drama drew heavily on Greek drama. So heavily, in fact, that many of the stories and...
Curated Video
The Iroquois Confederacy - America's First Democracy
The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to be the one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies and the oldest democratic form of government on the American continent. Originally made from five Native American tribes:...
Curated Video
You are Your Choices | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from Seneca
Seneca was an early first-century Roman stoic philosopher and dramatist. He asserted that ‘You are Your Choices’. Well, he may not have said it, but it is widely attributed to him and there are many variants. I think this means that the...
Curated Video
Northeast Native Americans
Dr. Forrester discusses Native Americans living in the Northeastern part of the United States of America.
Curated Video
Warrior Queen of Brittania | The Life & Times of Boudicca
This is one of those episodes I think is going to really speak to like 5% of my audience the other 95% of you, well you’re about to learn something. Because on top of my references being extremely dated, Boudicca also appears to be a...
Hip Hughes History
The Seneca Falls Convention Explained: US History Review
Uploaded on the 167th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, we take a look at the big idea of women's rights in the 19th century as well as some interesting facts about the convention.
Religion for Breakfast
Saturnalia Explained
What is Saturnalia? You may have heard of this Roman holiday, but the details are scant and fragmentary from Roman sources. This video explains what we know about Saturnalia and whether or not it influenced the institution of Christmas.
Religion for Breakfast
Did Christianity Steal the Egyptian Ankh?
The Egyptian hieroglyphic ankh looks kind of similar to the Christian cross. This has lead some conspiracy theorists to argue that Christians copied the ankh for their own religious symbol: the cross. This his basically false, BUT there...
Jack Rackam
Tyrant or Superstar? | The Life & Times of Nero
Watch your backs and the water in your wine, our road has led us back to Rome! Nero Claudius Caesar often gets a bad rap as one of the worst emperors, whether a madman or a tyrant. To be sure, he was an awful human being, he killed his...
Weird History
What It Was Like to Be a Roman Slave
Slave labor was a huge aspect of Roman life and the Republic depended heavily on free work from human beings who had no rights, no possessions, and were left at the whims of their masters to be worked to death, starved, tortured, and...
Religion for Breakfast
Intro to Indigenous Religions
Any world religion textbook will include Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But how many include indigenous religions? What even are indigenous religions and how do we study them?
Curated Video
The First Allies of the Revolution
The United States’ first true allies, the Oneida Tribe helped the Patriots to win the American Revolutionary War – but at what cost?
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : South African pastor holds public prayer meeting to calm racial tension over farm attacks
Dozens of Christians gather to pray for peace and unity in the small South African farming town of Senekal, which is at the centre of rising racial tensions (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Crash Course
Crash Course Theater #6: Roman Theater With Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
In this episode, Mike delves into the theater of ancient Rome. It wasn't all gladiators and Christian-killing, you know. There was theater, too. Roman drama drew heavily on Greek drama. So heavily, in fact, that many of the stories and...
EL Education
El Education: Grappling With Complex Informational Text (Vimeo)
In this video, Andrew Hossack at the Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo, NY, involves his students in using close reading strategies of a complex text to determine the main idea and important details. In this lesson, his complex text is...