Dr. Forrester talks about the variety of immigrants who have come to America and the various reasons they came. She then talks about the immigration center at Ellis Island.

Sail through the beautiful islands of the Caribbean and discover a rich and complex history. Long before explorers arrived, Indigenous peoples like the Taíno and Carib lived on these islands with unique cultures and traditions. Later,...

Much like the United States, Canada's first European settlements began on its east coast. But where many of the US's first settlements would eventually emerge as major population centers such as Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia,...

The roots of the modern trade system were laid down not in the sixteenth century as had previously been thought, but rather in the thirteenth-century medieval period. No one area controlled the world economy at that time, and it was only...

The roots of the modern trade system were laid down not in the sixteenth century as had previously been thought, but rather in the thirteenth-century medieval period. No one area controlled the world economy at that time, and it was only...

Watch a video preview of the exhibition Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980, on view at The Met Breuer from September 13, 2017, through January 14, 2018. Featuring Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of...

In which John Green kicks off Crash Course US History! Why, you may ask, are we covering US History, and not more World History, or the history of some other country, or the very specific history of your home region? Well, the reasons...

What happens when reason or rationality is asleep and superstitious beliefs take over from science and reason? Francisco Goya explores this and other Enlightenment topics in his Los Caprichos series of aquatint prints. One of the most...

In this video, the speaker explores the origins of the name "Turkey" for the bird native to North America. They explain that the name originated from a misidentification of the bird by Europeans who imported a different bird called the...

This video explores some of the reasons the British were involved in the slave trade and a quote from William Wilberforce's parlimentary speech about the abolition of slavery.

How do they hurt the economies doing the sanctioning? What is the difference between economic sanctions and regular old trade restrictions?

What Can Go Wrong? Ultimately, will the sanctions

work?

Helping you become...

With the Coronavirus spreading around the world, it's impacting everything from supply chains to education. So in this video, we explore how the Coronavirus is impacting Brexit and also how Brexit is affecting the UK's reaction to COVID-19.

LEAD IN:It's not been long since European countries were competing on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. Well now they're competing on Mars ... sort of.At Innorobo, one of Europe's leading robotics events, teams from across the continent...

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