Ideas about 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.

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Talks about History

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

8:48

Lauren Sallan

A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included)

Posted Feb 2020

14:12

Debbie Millman

How symbols and brands shape our humanity

Posted Feb 2020

3:33

Jon Gray

The power of the Afro pick

Posted Feb 2020

3:07

David Biello

How the compass unlocked the world

Posted Feb 2020

18:13

David Ikard

The real story of Rosa Parks — and why we need to confront myths about black history

Posted Feb 2020

11:01

Werner Reich

How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust

Posted Jan 2020

10:56

David J. Bier

How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system

Posted Jan 2020

10:12

Emma Schachner

The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet

Posted Jan 2020

13:53

Edward Tenner

The paradox of efficiency

Posted Dec 2019

10:40

Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin

A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World's Fair

Posted Nov 2019

16:31

Paul A. Kramer

Our immigration conversation is broken — here's how to have a better one

Posted Nov 2019

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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...