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...
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...
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...
In 1950, sportswriters from across the United States voted on who they thought was the greatest American athlete of the century but one you might not have heard of shone the brightest: the incomparable Jim Thorpe. Football, baseball, basketball player – he was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
The Statue of Liberty has been welcoming immigrants and visitors to New York Harbour since 1875. France offered to build the monumental statue, America agreed to construct the base but things didn’t quite go according to...
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was the biggest protest America had ever seen. It culminated in Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. But the man who made it all possible, chief organiser Bayard Rustin, was...
