289-The Johnstown Flood
In 1889, a dam failed in southwestern Pennsylvania, sending 20 million tons of water down an industrialized valley toward the unsuspecting city of Johnstown.
Futility Closet
US IN 1890S-1930S (43 HISTORICAL PHOTOS)
By 1900 the American nation had established itself as a world power. The West was won. The frontier -- the great fact of 300 years of American history -- was no ...
PERFECT LIFE
The Old West - Wild Bill Hickok (Documentary) - tv shows full episodes
Wild Bill Hickok Documentary Biography TV series episode. This is episode 1 of The Old West, an original TV series produced by Westerns On The Web ...
WesternsOnTheWeb
Your Ancestors' Occupations - Expert Q&A | Findmypast
Family history expert Jen Baldwin shares her top tips for finding out more about what your ancestors did for a living. We know your family tree means more to you ...
Findmypast
CoinWeek: History as Struck: The Medals of the United States Mint
Numismatist John Kraljevich, a noted expert on US Coins and Americana, gave an in-depth presentation on medals struck at the United States Mint at the 2018 ...
coinweek
David McCullough: History and the American Spirit
David McCullough: History and the American Spirit -- Recorded 5 May 2018 at Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA -- Presented by MHS' Center for the ...
MassHistorical
Listerine & Tragic Optimism | Jeff Bloodworth | TEDxErie
Listerine & Tragic Optimism Jeff is an associate professor of history and chair of the department of history & archaeology at Gannon University (Erie, PA).
TEDx Talks
Third Ypres: A Warning from History
In this talk Rob Thompson looks at the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Recorded at the WFA's AGM, York, UK, May 2011 The Western Front Association is ...
The Western Front Association
26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (HIST 119) Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing about the end of ...
YaleCourses
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America - Michael Neiberg
Michael Neiberg, US Army War College The First World War transformed the United States into a financial powerhouse and global player, despite the ...
National WWI Museum and Memorial
David McCullough: Americans in Paris
When historian David McCullough announced his intention to write a book about Americans in Paris, his interest was in Americans who went to Paris in the ...
Library of Congress
Energy, the American Experience, 1970s Gov't Film
In this film, produced by the Energy Research and Development Administration, which was the predecessor to the Department of Energy, we see an attempt to ...
WIRED
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum
Given that we have very little knowledge on tractors, we were on edge on whether to visit this museum. But given that there are some unusual trucks known to be ...
TwinRodders - USautos98
Fracking: The Wild West comes to the UK | David Smythe | TEDxFindhornSalon
In this informative and startling talk, David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Glasgow, exposes the fracking industry as being both ...
TEDx Talks
150 Years of University Hospitals: How the University of Michigan Sparked a Revolution
Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D. speaks about the history of the first university-owned hospital in the United States, established in a former professor's house on the ...
Michigan Medicine
America's Great Indian Nations - Full Length Documentary
indiannations #lakotasioux #seminoles #shawnee #navajo #cheyenne #ushistory #americanhistory Own the collectible DVD ...
Questar Entertainment
Conversations with History: Federico Rampini
Italian Journalist Federico Rampini joins Conversations host Harry Kreisler for a discussion of Italian politics and the role of globalization in the movement ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Jill Lepore: These Truths [CC]
The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people.
Chicago Humanities Festival
The History of Discrimination in Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Part 1
Are you at a severe disadvantage if you don't go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton? Why are admissions at elite American universities so different than they are at ...
Massachusetts School of Law at Andover
Valley Forge
Bob Drury has written an inspiring account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American ...
US National Archives
Stanford’s damaged treasure: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hanna House
Paul Turner, professor of art and specialist in architectural history from the 18th to 20th centuries, delves into the fascinating history of Stanford's Hanna House, ...
Stanford University Libraries
MOOC | Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1865 | 2.2.3
Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War's long-term economic and intellectual impact.
ColumbiaLearn
MOOC | The Mexican War & Expansion of Slavery | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1861 | 1.4.1
Discover how the issue of slavery came to dominate American politics, and how political leaders struggled and failed to resolve the growing crisis in the nation.
ColumbiaLearn
Issue Monday: "Debunking the Progressive Myth” with Lawrence Reed
Issue Monday: "Debunking the Progressive Myth” with Lawrence Reed Monday, February 08, 2016 Centennial Institute invites you to cut through the circus ...
Centennial Institute
U.S. Involvement in the Middle East
Speakers Steven A. Cook Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Bernard A. Haykel Professor of Near ...
Council on Foreign Relations
10 Most Haunted US Prisons - Halloween 2014
Throughout history many prisons were places teeming with violence, disease, inhumane treatment, and death. Not surprisingly, a number of them are said to be ...
geobeats
Gettysburg Artifacts "If These Things Could Talk" (Lecture)
Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Tom Holbrook puts on his white gloves and tells the story of a number of Civil War artifacts circa 1865. Descendants of ...
GettysburgNPS
Why Do We Have Private Prisons?
Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/originofeverything The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Today, Danielle explores ...
Origin Of Everything
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race around the World
It's 1889, and the world is newly dominated by steamships, railroads and the telegraph. Two women take on the race of their life, spanning twenty-eight thousand ...
The Graduate Center, CUNY
The Eastern Front Experience in the First World War - Vejas Liulevicius
Vejas Liulevicius was a featured speaker at "A Century in the Shadow of the Great War," an International Centennial Planning Conference held at the National ...
National WWI Museum and Memorial
WATCH | House Judiciary Committee debates Trump impeachment articles (FULL LIVE STREAM)
The House continues markup of the Trump impeachment articles, which began Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern. House Democrats unveiled two articles of ...
Washington Post
Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment | Town Hall Seattle
Thom Hartmann, often considered the most popular progressive radio host in America, invites us to an in-depth, historically informed discussion of one of the ...
Town Hall Seattle
MOOC | Gettysburg, Then and Now | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1865 | 2.7.2
Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War's long-term economic and intellectual impact.
ColumbiaLearn
Paging Through History: Mark Kurlansky in Conversation with Ella Morton
Paper. It's one of the most common materials in the world, yet its impact on society is anything but ordinary. In his book "Paper: Paging Through History," author ...
Brooklyn Historical Society
Top 10 FAMOUS and Notorious GUNS from History
There are now more than three hundred million guns in the United States of America alone. At the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviet army was shelling ...
TopTenz
Richard White: "American West"
A leading scholar in the fields of the American West, Native American history and environmental history, Stanford history professor Richard White speaks at the ...
OU IACH
Historical Empathy with Archival Documents
Join Sierra Green, archivist at the Senator John Heinz History Center's Detre Library & Archives, for an online session highlighting multiple perspectives ...
Smithsonian Education
"Assault From the Ivory Tower" by Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall Forum - Lesson 2 of 14 Course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMv6F-GQsbZmm72JMjHQVrtV This ...
Ayn Rand Institute
2020 Issues in National Security Lecture Series: John Maurer on Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Issues in National Security (INS) lectures are specifically designed to offer scholarly lectures to the spouses, partners, and significant others of military and ...
U.S. Naval War College
Antique trucks at MATS 2019
A walkthrough of antique trucks put on display by the American Truck Historical Society at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY.
Overdrive Magazine
The Fall of Empires - FPRI's 2015 Middle East History Institute
Adam Garfinkle, Editor, American Interest · Fox Fellow, FPRI “The Fall of Empires and the Formation of the Modern Middle East” at the Foreign Policy Research ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Nickel Plate Story
The Nickel Plate Railroad was constructed in 1881 along the South Shore of the Great Lakes connecting Buffalo, New York, and Chicago to compete with the ...
Backshop Rail Productions
