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History

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of History.

Video playlists about History

The search for ancient clues

6 talks • 1h 49m

Fascinating talks about humanity's beginnings and evolution's journey.

Talks to celebrate Black History Month

23 talks • 5h 17m

Insightful talks that offer fresh, thoughtful perspectives on Black identity.

Time warp

7 talks • 1h 30m

Time is measured in seconds, minutes and hours. But these talks show it isn't always so simple.

Fascinating history

12 talks • 2h 53m

Be transported through the centuries with these talks for your inner (and outer) history buff.

See all 16 playlists on History

Talks about History

15:19

D-L Stewart

Scenes from a Black trans life

Posted Jul 2020

13:35

Titus Kaphar

Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Posted Jul 2020

14:40

Aparna Pallavi

What foods did your ancestors love?

Posted Jun 2020

12:18

Farish Ahmad-Noor

Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?

Posted Jun 2020

51:14

Ibram X. Kendi

The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

Posted Jun 2020

15:18

Michael Green

How flags unite (and divide) us

Posted Jun 2020

6:35

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

The bill has come due for the US's history of racism

Posted Jun 2020

7:27

Dr. Bernice King

The US needs a radical revolution of values

Posted Jun 2020

8:46

Anthony D. Romero

The ACLU's call to defund the police

Posted Jun 2020

1h 6m

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero

The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Posted Jun 2020

15:27

Lara Durgavich

An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

Posted Apr 2020

13:29

Lindsay Morcom

A history of Indigenous languages — and how to revitalize them

Posted Apr 2020

43:45

Sonia Shah

How to make pandemics optional, not inevitable

Posted Apr 2020

13:34

Molly Webster

The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

Posted Mar 2020

19:21

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

Posted Mar 2020

10:51

France Villarta

The gender-fluid history of the Philippines

Posted Mar 2020

See all 229 talks on History

Exclusive articles about History

How did the human heart become associated with love? And how did it turn into the shape we know today?

We see the familiar symbol everywhere — in text messages, signs, cakes, clothing, and more. But we also know the real heart looks nothing like it. Historian Marilyn Yalom tells ...

A mobile documentary asks: What if Martin Luther King, Eartha Kitt and others were on Facebook in 1968?

In journalist Mikhail Zygar’s innovative series, you can watch the events of that momentous year come to vibrant life on your phone in weekly episodes. Imagine your phone screen...

These 6 pioneering women helped create modern computers

It seems like a story made for the movies: the first general-purpose computer was actually programmed by a half-dozen female math whizzes. Yet for too long, their efforts have b...