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Black Americans in the Civil War: Crash Course Black American History #18
The American Civil War is one of the deadliest in US History, and let’s just get this out of the way: it was about slavery. In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, there have been many attempts to litigate the reasons for the war, but the reality is that…
Read MoreThe Louisiana Rebellion of 1811: Crash Course Black American History #12
Uprisings of enslaved people in the United States were not uncommon, and they had a big influence on how the institution of slavery evolved. One uprising that gets less attention, historically, is the German Coast Uprising that took place in Louisiana in 1811. A group of enslaved people rebelled, and the after-effects would be felt…
Read MoreWomen’s Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11
Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery and were particularly vulnerable to some terrible…
Read MoreThe American Revolution: Crash Course Black American History #8
When we talk about the American Revolution and Revolutionary War, the discussion often involves lofty ideals like liberty, freedom, and justice. The Declaration of Independence even opens with the idea that “all men are created equal.” But it turns out the war wasn’t being fought on behalf of “all men.” The war was mainly about…
Read MoreHaitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30
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 that were touting these ideas relied on slave labor. Few places in the world relied so heavily on slave labor as Saint-Domingue, France’s…
Read More19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15
In which John Green teaches you about various reform movements in the 19th century United States. From Utopian societies to the Second Great Awakening to the Abolition movement, American society was undergoing great changes in the first half of the 19th century. Attempts at idealized societies popped up (and universally failed) at Utopia, OH, New…
Read MoreSlavery: Crash Course US History #13
In which John Green teaches you about America’s “peculiar institution,” slavery. I wouldn’t really call it peculiar. I’d lean more toward the horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will talk about what life was like for a slave in the 19th century United States, and how slaves resisted oppression, to the degree…
Read MoreWho Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we’ve labored the point here, but they weren’t the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides. Everyone is familiar with how this war…
Read MoreCommerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8
In this episode of Crash Course European History, John Green takes a look at the ways that individuals’ lives were changing in the time span we’ve covered so far. Some people’s lives were improving, thanks to innovations in agriculture and commerce, and the technologies that drove those fields. Lots of people’s lives were also getting…
Read MoreExpansion and Consequences: Crash Course European History #5
European exploration had a lot of side effects. When the Old World and the New World began to interact, people, wealth, food, animals, and disease began to flow in both directions. In the New World, countless millions were killed by smallpox, measles, and other Old World diseases. Old World animals changed life in the New…
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