Drawing the lines: Parties fight for redistricting power

In this video adapted from Need to Know, students learn about redistricting and the impact it has on elections, and democracy, in America.

Dutch West India Company (1621)

This segment from Dutch New York describes the formation of the Dutch West India Company, which established some of the earliest settlements in North America.

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Earth as a System

This visualization adapted from NASA maps progressive global changes onto a rotating globe. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are shown to be dynamic and interconnected.

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Easter East and West

Learn about Easter, Christianity’s most important festival, in this video from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

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Economic Boom

In this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation.

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The Effects of the Columbian Exchange

This resource featuring video segments adapted from Chronoscope: Exploring 1492: “Columbian Exchange” describes the movement of plants, animals, and disease that characterized the Columbian Exchange and explains how this changed the world.

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Eid al-Fitr

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn how Muslims in America celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the “Feast of Breaking the Fast.”

Empowerment

This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that presence of women at peace talks is essential.

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English Ships (1664)

This segment from Dutch New York describes how, in 1664, the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam became the English colony of New York.

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben, 1990

In this 1990 archival news footage from Cambridge Community Television, environmentalist Bill McKibben speaks about the possible effects of climate change at an Earth Day celebration in Cambridge, MA.

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Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill

This video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there.

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Environmental Justice in Dallas

Follow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism."

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Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists

This video adapted from American Experience: “The Abolitionists” describes the contributions of Frederick Douglass, a former slave, to the abolitionist movement in the early 1840s.

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The Exchange Student

This video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the experience of Jim Zwerg, a white college student who was among the Freedom Riders seeking to end illegal discrimination against African Americans during the civil rights era.

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Explore Colonial Boston

Explore the town of Boston and its natural and human-made features in colonial times in this interactive activity produced by WGBH and featuring materials from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.

Exploring Religious America

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about Muslims in Lawrenceville, Georgia, their plans to build an Islamic cemetery and the stiff objections from their Christian neighbors.

Farm and City

This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.

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Farmer's Dilemma

In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country’s economic boom.

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Farmers in Peril

In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.

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A New World Order

This video from Women, War & Peace explains how women and their dependents are most affected by the changed nature of warfare since the end of the Cold War.

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