In her Auntie An-mei’s home, Jing-Mei reluctantly takes her seat at the eastern corner of the mahjong table. At the north, south and west corners are her aunties, long-time members of the Joy Luck Club. This gathering is the point of...

For the past 7 years, Trumbull High School's We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution Program, under the leadership of Social Studies Teacher Katie Boland, has won the We The People state championship title. With more than 28...

A timeline is a tool that shows the order of events that happened in the past. In this video, learn how to use timelines and why they are important when studying history.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra talks about how modernity arrived in Asia, Latin America and Africa under the auspices of imperialism and exploitative capitalism while highlighting how it was also problematic for many people...

Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College, talks about Einstein as the last true genius in history, the present, all-pervading genius culture and what that means for the future.

Historian Maria Mavroudi, UC Berkeley, talks about how we can make sense of both the distinction and the unity between West and East by taking into account different human experiences.

Historian Martin Jay, UC Berkeley, talks about the situations in which lying takes place in politics and might be justified and even expected in adversarial, diplomatic and other situations.

Historian of science, Michael Gordin, Printceton University, talks about the demarcation between science and pseudcoscience and how very few fringe theories that are empirically wrong actually survive by letting the scientific process...

Karl Gerth, Professor of Chinese Studies, UC San Diego. talks about the many fault lines in Chinese society, such as environmental degradation, that are well-known to everybody, including Chinese leaders and how solutions are not as...

Political theorist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, compares and contrasts how well the USA and China have been governed from an economic and human rights perspective since 1979 up to the present day.

Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, discusses how he expects that by taking advantage of technological advances in higher education a much broader audience will be able to take a more critical look at the simplistic...

Michael Berry, Professor of Cinese Culture at UCLA, talks about the impact his time in China and becoming fully fluent in Chinese had on him and how it provided him with an alternative perspective on differences in culture, values and...

Historian David Armitage, Harvard University, discusses the necessity for historians to be very cautious about the impulse to provide clarity in things like legal definitions needed by politicians, policy-makers, military officials and...

Just how dark were the Dark Ages? How did the Black Plague kill up to 100 million people and change the face of the Earth?

“Civic Virtue and Democratic Principle” defines the terms civic virtue and democratic principles and discusses examples of each in terms of community and the classroom.

This lesson explains how citizenship includes obligations by describing examples of how citizens exercise personal responsibility.

Article Three: Structure of Powers of Judicial Branch explains the responsibilities of the judicial branch by analyzing Article III of the Constitution.

In the first episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat explains one of the most controversial cases in American history- Roe v. Wade. A young woman named Norma McCorvey was single, pregnant, and scared about her future. She wanted an...

In episode 31 of Supreme Court Briefs, a game show gives away money and stuff, and the FCC gets all upset and tries to stop it.

In episode 15 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man with diabetes is beat up by the police who think he is drunk and just robbed a convenience store. Spoiler alert- he didn't.

In episode 14 of Supreme Court Briefs, a company trying to show broadcast television on phones and tablets gets sued by, you guessed it, broadcast companies.

In episode 11 of Supreme Court Briefs, a slave fights for his family's freedom after they live in free states for a while.

In episode 10 of Supreme Court Briefs, a corporation argues it has the right to spend as much money as it wants on a political campaign because of the First Amendment.

In episode 24 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man exposes dark government secrets about the Vietnam War, and gets in big trouble from the government for it. Should whistleblowers be protected?