Economics Explained
Is War Good for The Economy?
1929 was the worst economic depression in modern history, it saw banks fail, soup lines, crippling unemployment and a decline in worldwide GDP by over 15% for context the 2008 mortgage crisis and the ensuing recession caused a drop in...
Curated Video
How the Saudis ended up with so many American weapons
And why they want more. Become a member of the Vox Video Lab! http://bit.ly/video-lab Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Saudi Arabia and the US have a partnership that's been in the making for over seven decades. It started...
Curated Video
The 1960s in America Crash Course US History
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...
Epic History TV
World War One: 1915
World War One - 1915' is the second of our five-part series covering the Great War. This episode covers one of the first strategic bombing raids in history, when two German Zeppelin airships bombed the British ports of King's Lynn and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Benjamin Abelow Teachers Make a Difference: Norman Miller & Marc Trachtenberg
Benjamin Abelow holds a B.A. in modern European history from the University of Pennsylvania, where he participated in an honors seminar on U.S. Cold War foreign policy taught by the scholar Marc Tractenberg. He then worked in Washington,...
Hip Hughes History
Cuba Explained: Ending the Embargo
A primer for those trying to understand the decision by President Obama to open up to Cuba. A quick history on Cuba included! Leave ur comments too!
Hip Hughes History
The Yalta Conference Explained
A super short primer on the Yalta Conference also known as the Crimean Conference. Meet FDR, Stalin and Churchill and prepare to end one war and start another cold one.
Mr. Beat
NATO Explained
On April 4, 1949, the leaders of 12 countries in both North America and Western Europe got together in Washington, D.C. in response to the growing threat of the Soviet Union, a Communist country that had been fairly aggressive trying to...
Curated Video
What Happened to German Soldiers After WW2? | Animated History
When VE Day was declared in 1945, the Allied powers held roughly 11 million German soldiers as Prisoners of War. The vast majority of these, close to 8 million, had been captured by the Western Allies, while the remaining 3 million were...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
D'Maris Coffman: Bringing History to Economics
This episode features grantee D'Maris Coffman of the Centre for Financial History talking about her organization's commitment to a New Financial History and what the fruits of their approach can tell us about modern debt crises and...
Hip Hughes History
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The decision to drop the Atomic bomb in Japan to end WWII are controversial to this day. Explore the decision that Harry Truman had to make and then make up your own mind.
Curated Video
Evolution of Russian Tanks | Animated History
Few nations embraced the invention of the tank with as much vigor as the Soviet Union. Building on the experiments performed by the Russian Empire in the closing days of the First World War, the Soviet Union constantly sought to improve...
Weird History
What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like
Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from WWII to the end of the '80s. But what...
Soliloquy
The One Nation That Gave Up Its Nuclear Weapons
Nations that develop nuclear weapons often do so as a deterrent to any would-be attacker; it is a significant investment and so these nations, especially the smaller nations on the nuclear list, are threatened by nations surrounding...
The Telegraph
Glenn Greenwald on why the left-wing media has turned on Biden | Off Script
Twenty years of lies from the military establishment cannot be forgotten. Journalist Glenn Greenwald asks why no one has taken accountability for the Afghanistan debacle and argues for a new system of transparency. Greenwald joins Steven...
Professor Dave Explains
Dwight Eisenhower: I Like Ike (1953 – 1961)
Dwight Eisenhower was the first military hero to become president since Ulysses Grant nearly a century earlier. But the post WWII era was much different from the post Civil War era. The military-industrial complex was taking shape, and...
One Minute History
The Race to Space - Soviet Union vs. USA - One Minute History
Following the defeat of the Axis powers, American, British and Soviet intelligence agencies work diligently to recruit German rocket scientists and acquire their knowledge and designs. The United States hires Wernher von Braun and his...
Hip Hughes History
Ronald Reagan Explained: US History Review
A short overview of the 1980's with an emphasis on the policies of Ronald Reagan. Broad and intended for high school students studying for their end of the year United States history exams, specifically the New York state regents...
One Minute History
073 The Race to Space - One Minute History
Following the defeat of the Axis powers, American, British and Soviet intelligence agencies work diligently to recruit German rocket scientists and acquire their knowledge and designs. The United States hires Wernher von Braun and his...
Curated Video
The Soviet Bloc Unwinds: Crash Course European History
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having increasing trouble holding its sphere of influence together. Today you'll learn about the labor strikes of...
Wonderscape
Post-Cuban Missile Crisis Developments and Nuclear Disarmament
Examine the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis and its impact on global nuclear policies. Learn how the United States and the Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba and established a hotline for direct communication. Understand the...
Curated Video
How the US created a disaster in Afghanistan
What was the purpose of America's longest war? Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO On August 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The Afghan president fled...
Reading Through History
History Brief: The Space Race
This video gives a brief history of the Space Race during the Cold War era. *** Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ReadingThroughHistory/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigmarshdawg77/ Follow us on...
The Cynical Historian
George F. Kennan | Historians who Changed History
George F. Kennan is an interesting case for "Historians who Changed History," because he changed history in a very different way. Not from within the profession, but from without. He was an instrumental figure in the beginning of the...