by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 4, 2020 | Women and the American Story
Around the year 1500, in a region of the Yucatan Peninsula between the Aztec and Mayan empires, a girl who came to be known as Malitzen was born. She rose from slavery to become a Spanish noblewomen but was she a traitor to her...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 4, 2020 | Academy of American Democracy
Democracies are based on the idea that power is held in the hands of the people, and that everyone has an equal right to freedom and self-governance. So how could democratic societies claim to support equality while holding humans in...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 4, 2020 | Women and the American Story
Elizabeth Freeman was born into slavery but legally won her right to freedom in the courts years before the abolition of slavery in...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 2, 2020 | America Explained
Think you know all about the Pilgrims? Think again! Did you know they may not have introduced the tradition of Thanksgiving, that they robbed graves and enslaved Native...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 2, 2020 | Women and the American Story
At the turn of the 20th century, the US government forced Native Americans to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. But Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, aka Zitkala-Sa, an activist, author and educator, fought against the Americanization of Native...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Dec 2, 2020 | Academy of American Democracy
In the late 1700s, three major revolutions rocked the Atlantic World. But what were the ideas that characterized the Age of Revolutions, and how did they change the course of...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 18, 2020 | Academy of American Democracy
Around 3,000 years ago, the ancient Athenian government transitioned from the “rule of a few” to the “rule of many”, and democracy was...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 18, 2020 | Museum of Artifacts That Made America
This is the story of how African American baseball players overcame racial segregation to claim the national pastime of Baseball as their own. Batter up, play...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 11, 2020 | Women and the American Story
Exposing the horrors of racism in the American South wasn’t easy, but investigative journalist Ida B. Wells made it her...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 11, 2020 | Museum of Artifacts That Made America
Thanks to modern technology, you don’t even have to get out of bed to find out what’s going on in the world, but in the early days of America, news travelled slow. This is the story of the Harvard Printing Press that changed...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 11, 2020 | Hidden Histories
We’ve all got our favourite YouTubers, right? But everyone with a channel has this Pennsylvian lady, Nellie Bly, to thank. You could say she was the world’s first...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 4, 2020 | Women and the American Story
We hear a lot about famous scientists like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, but have you ever heard of Chien-Shiung Wu – the first lady of physics and one the first female science professors in the...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 4, 2020 | America Explained
Putting the ‘wild’ into the wild west. In this video, we will explain what a ‘soiled dove’ is and how they controversial figures used their wealth to build and define our United States of America from the ground...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Nov 4, 2020 | America Explained
Although half of Americans are female, women make up just 25% of Congress. For every dollar a man earns in America, his female colleagues can expect to make on average just 79 cents. But women have been treated unfairly in America since day one. In this video,...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Oct 21, 2020 | America Explained
In 1967, Gregory Pincus and John Rock invented the Pill: a revolutionary oral contraceptive, that finally freed American women to explore their sexuality without fear of falling pregnant. However, to be honest, not everyone thought contraception was a good idea. In...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Oct 21, 2020 | Women and the American Story
In the summer of 1776, the British army and navy surrounded the city of New York, preparing to take it from the American army based there. Loyalist men were fleeing to join the British before the attack. Loyalist Lorenda Holmes found another way to support her...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Oct 21, 2020 | America Explained
In 2017, there were 10.5 million undocumented immigrants living in America: people who entered the country illegally; or who stayed after their work visas ran out. For them, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is all too real. In this video series we will...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Oct 21, 2020 | Museum of Artifacts That Made America
Hats off to Abraham Lincoln – our tallest POTUS in US history! His top hat alone, added eight inches onto his frame but this is the story of how without his iconic Top Hat, he may never have been our 16th President!...
by WVVLhHpCQb | Oct 21, 2020 | America Explained
None of the 45 US Presidents have been given the boot, despite, on occasion, doing some pretty questionable things. So what does it really take to get fired as...
