Watch and Listen to First Person Accounts of the Great Depression

When I taught units on the Great Depression I liked to use video and audio clips of first person accounts of the effects of the Great Depres...

North Korea Explained in Four Minutes

This afternoon I spent some time jumping from one interesting and educational YouTube video to the next. Many of those videos will be appear...

Resources for Learning About Pearl Harbor

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which brought the U.S. into WWII. If you're a social studies teach...

Teenage Life in Ancient Rome - A TED-Ed Lesson

A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome is a new TED-Ed lesson developed by Ray Laurence from the University of Kent. The video and its a...

37 Crash Course History Videos

The last time I checked out the Crash Course history videos on YouTube they were up to 15 videos. This evening I was checking out the U.S. ...

Video - The Black Death in 90 Seconds

Yesterday, in an email from Next Vista for Learning I learned about this short explanation of The Black Death created by a teacher in Cali...

YouTube Launches "Star Search" for Teachers

Okay, so YouTube's not bringing Ed McMahon back to life to have teachers sing and dance on stage, but they have launched a star search ...

Get Hip With New Hip Hughes History Videos

I've mentioned Keith Hughes' Hip Hughes History YouTube channel in the past. This morning I showed the channel to my friend Alice ...

Video - How Dark Were the Dark Ages?

Back in February I wrote about an educational and entertaining YouTube channel titled Crash Course . Crash Course offers a course on World H...

Five Resources for Learning About North Korea

The web comic The Oatmeal doesn't often (perhaps ever) have cartoons that are appropriate for the classroom but today there was one that...

Four Short Videos on the Origins of World War I

Yesterday's featured document from the U.S. National Archives was President Wilson's address to Congress calling for a declaration ...

9 Resources for Teaching & Learning About the Titanic

I was asked if I could share some resources for teaching and learning about the Titanic. I had a few things already in my archives. Then I d...

Two Short Videos on the Origins of April Fools' Day

This morning I was able to trick a couple of my Facebook friends into thinking that I was selling Free Technology for Teachers . I am not se...

Words of the World - The Origins of Words

Words of the World is another great series of videos from the University of Nottingham (they also brought us the Periodic Table of Videos ...

Another Great YouTube Channel for History Students and Teachers

Last week I posted 7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers . Admittedly, that list was skewed toward US History. In the comments on t...

7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers

One of my favorite things about Netflix streaming is that I can watch some great history documentaries on my laptop or tablet. As much as I ...

History of the Indus Valley Civilization in Ten Minutes

Crash Course is a small YouTube channel featuring a couple of short, fast-paced video lessons about World History. The two history videos on...

Video - The Last 100 Years in 10 Minutes

Here's a short video overview of the last 100 years. 90% of the video is about events (mostly war-related) in Europe and North America. ...

Building the Panama Canal - Lesson Plans & Video

One of my favorite television programs is American Experience . And one of my favorite US Presidents to read about is Theodore Roosevelt . T...

Museum of Obsolete Objects - Videos of Changes in Technology

Do remember making mix tapes in high school? If you still have one kicking around, good luck finding a cassette player to listen to it on. I...