Instructional Video13:58
Crash Course

The Modern Revolution: Crash Course Big History #8

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Will advances in technology save us from exhausting the Earth's resources? Throughout history, progress helped us revolutionize society. The video discusses the growth in collective learning, exploration, machinery, communications,...
Instructional Video3:03
PBS

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

9th - 12th Standards
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age Of Revolution

9th - 12th Standards
Discover the ways that the exploited class has influenced our modern lives with a short study of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789 - 1848. High schoolers discuss the Marxist perspective of how the Industrial...