This video tells the story of Henry "Box" Brown. It covers his childhood, his heartbreaking separation from his wife and children, and his grueling 27-hour escape from enslavement. This video is part two of "The 5 Most Daring Escapes...

On April 15, 1865, Lincoln was gunned down in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a man sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. In the years following the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, his successor Andrew Johnson...

Discusses the French trading networks, their alliances with Native Americans, and their conflicts with settlers. This video looks at the French settlement of Louisianna and the Native American Natchez conflict with the French....

The Atlantic colonial world is full of resistance to the brutal enslavement and displacement of BIPOC. Often escaping oppression meant forging pockets of resistance to live and fight for their freedom. These people are known as maroons,...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Slavery in Korea

The Civil War was the bloodiest in US history: more Americans perished in five years than in all other conflicts combined. What was it like to fight? Soldiers faced new technology on the field, like rifle-muskets that could cut down...

On today's episode of Kult America Marek and I are going to learn Ebonics. Let's see if a European and a white American can manage to speak this charming slang!

No matter how much we scale a Jenkins master vertically, it simply would not be enough to support an ever-growing deployment. At some point of time, a distributed approach will need to be adopted.

• Understand distributed...

Another educational, yet weirdly entertaining, video from Mr. Beat and his kid brother, Steven, about the horrible 3/5 Compromise.

Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, a writer, an inventor and the man who may have completed the design for Washington DC Capitol City of the United States of America from...

The life of Henry "Box" Brown is so notable because he was an Antebellum-Era Virginia plantation slave who managed to mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box. The big question here is: how did he do it? Easy! He had the help of...

The Kingdom of Kongo was an indigenous African kingdom in modern Day Angola and the Republic of Kongo. The story of its unstable life and eventual decline show the heavy damage the slave trade had upon this continent.

As the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and our country’s first president, George Washington was one of America’s most respected leaders. Washington spent his early years working on his family’s Virginia...

With the help of a few of my friends, I have created this master piece of Frère Jacques in German (Bruder Jakob), French, Spanish (Martinillo), and English (Are you sleeping)....

(1492) - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Hispaniola and begins enslaving its people. European diseases and brutal working conditions bring the indigenous population to the brink of extinction. Over the next three hundred...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Slavery in Central Asia

A brief explanation of the term 'slave' being the legal property of another

Discusses the French trading networks, their alliances with Native Americans, and their conflicts with settlers. This video discusses the Colonization Of North America The First Settlement. Part 1

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln. ...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Haitian Slave Revolt

William Wilberforce explains how the slave triangle worked.

This video explores Nietzsche's explanation for how ethics develop and the consequences for master types living in a world dominated by the morality of a slave. It delves into the origins of slave morality and how it becomes part of a...

1863 - Seizing upon the Union Army victory at Antietam, Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves held in the rebellious Confederate states. This demonstration of the President’s executive war powers...

How multiethnic do you think the west was? Did racism exist in Rome or was it more about status?<br/>
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Michael Scott on Classical Connections, Part 5