In which John Green teaches you about America’s “peculiar institution,” slavery. I wouldn’t really call it peculiar. I’d lean more toward a horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will... Read more »
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, the decades-long conflict between the USA and the USSR. The Cold War was called cold because of the lack of actual fighting,... Read more »
In which John Green teaches you about China’s Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily uprooting the dynastic system that had... Read more »
In which John Green teaches you about the Wild, Wild, West, which as it turns out, wasn’t as wild as it seemed in the movies. When we think of the western expansion... Read more »
In which John Green teaches you about the election of 1860. As you may remember from last week, things were not great at this time in US history. The tensions between the... Read more »
GP 2016 Question 10: Assess the view that most natural disasters are the result of human activity. On this playlist, we analyse General Paper Questions from the 2016 paper. What is the... Read more »
In which John Green teaches you a little bit about drought, which is a natural weather phenomenon, and famine, which is almost always the result of human activity. Throughout human history, when... Read more »
Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos. Although freedom was breaking out all over, many of the societies... Read more »
In which John Green kicks off Crash Course US History! Why, you may ask, are we covering US History, and not more World History, or the history of some other country, or... Read more »