End of Track
End of Track is the story of the Transcontinental Railroad's construction march across southern Wyoming and the growing pains of a state in its infancy.
Wyoming PBS
Niall Ferguson: The Rise (and Fall?) of the West
Niall Ferguson says the West gained power through six "killer apps." How did things like property rights, medicine and consumerism give the West wealth and ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Early Gunpowder Warfare & the Song "Industrial Revolution"
SOURCES: The Gunpowder Age, Andrade China, Keays A History of East Asia, Holcombe Gunpowder, Kelly Cambridge History of Inner Asia, vol. II.
The Historian's Craft
The Renaissance - the Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (2/2) | DW Documentary
Beginning at the end of the 14th Century, the Renaissance created a new type of man, triggering economic, scientific, technical, religious, social and cultural ...
DW Documentary
China’s payment system: Revolution, evolution, or passing fad?
On June 17, Aaron Klein, fellow in Economic Studies, released a new report detailing how China's payment system works, what it means, and what lessons the ...
Brookings Institution
Why Early Globalization Matters: Crash Course Big History #206
Globalization has been in process for centuries, and has had a huge effect on Big History, and on Collective Learning. This week, Emily is investigating early ...
CrashCourse
Conversations With History: The Ascent of Money
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Empire In The Pre-Industrial World - Professor Richard J Evans
The first lecture in the series looks at the initial expansion of Europe, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It explores the great empires established by the ...
Gresham College
The Past, The Present, and The Future of the Silk Road: Mark Norell at TEDxSilkRoad
About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people ...
TEDx Talks
Myths and Truths about Premodern Korea | John Duncan
Professor John Duncan provides an overview of Korea's long premodern history, emphasizing four key themes. One, Korea has an exceptionally long history as ...
USC KSI
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea | Mark Blyth | Talks at Google
Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the ...
Talks at Google
Bananas As We Know Them Are Doomed
There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind -- the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global ...
VICE News
Lets LISP like it's 1959
Kristoffer Gronlund https://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/153/ One of my favorite papers in computer science is the original LISP paper by John ...
linux.conf.au
Hokusai: The End of an Era
Hokusai died in 1849, just four years before the opening of Japanese ports to the West dramatically altered Japanese culture. See how Hokusai's art ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
'The Mongol Impact on World History' - Ed Vajda, WWU
Edward Vajda, a professor with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Western Washington University, presents "The Mongol Impact on World ...
Western Washington University
Print Culture and the Modern World | CBSE Class 10 History | Know your Dates | NCERT | Vedantu
The Nationalist Movement In Indo China Class 10 | Nationalist Movement in Indo China Class 10 | The Nationalist Movement In Indo China | Class 10 History ...
Vedantu Class 9 & 10
Japanese Woodblock Printing with Paul Binnie
On Thursday, November 21, 2013, contemporary Japan-trained woodblock print artist Paul Binnie presented an illustrated talk about the historical and technical ...
Toledo Museum of Art
The Northern Renaissance: Crash Course European History #3
The European Renaissance may have started in Florence, but it pretty quickly moved out of Italy and spread the art, architecture, literature, and humanism ...
CrashCourse
