PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 2 the Homefront
In which John Green teaches you about World War 2, as it was lived on the home front. You'll learn about how the war changed the country as a whole and changed how Americans thought about their country. John talks about the government...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachusetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History: #16: Women in the 19th Century
In this Crash Course video, John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes....
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #31: Women's Suffrage
Women's Suffrage video illustrating the development of women's organizations and their fight for civil rights during the Progressive Era. In a lively presentation, John Green discusses the shifts that occurred between 1890 and 1920...
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: The 19th Amendment
This video discusses the history of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. [5:14]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: 1920s Urbanization and Immigration
By the 1920s, a majority of the US population lived in cities rather than in rural areas. Kim explores the economic opportunities cities offered to women, migrants, and immigrants, as well as the passage of new immigration restrictions....
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #36: World War Ii Part Ii the Homefront
Second of two parts on WWII. Crash Course video presents a lively discussion on the changes brought about by WWII, both home and abroad. John Green teaches about expanding economy and government, greater opportunity for women and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #40: The 1960s in America
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Roaring 20s
In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1844: Market Revolution Impact and Significance
So what's the big deal about the Market Revolution, anyway? Kim describes how it changed the nature of American labor, markets, and culture. [11:55]
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #4: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Before the English got there, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Niki De Saint Phalle
Learn about artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and how Pop art was a vehicle for international and women artists to disrupt an art history that they saw as belonging to mostly male artists in a US-UK context. [3:55]