Randall Stephens On a recent browse through the loud, garish halls of YouTube I found several interesting history clips.  Without diminish...

Randall Stephens It takes a certain temperament to be a historian.  For example, you have to, at least on some level, enjoy rummaging th...

Randall Stephens Historical Society member, Springsteen disciple , and historian extraordinaire John Fea recently launched a series of vi...

Heather Cox Richardson I have recently tumbled over two youtube videos that show provocative images of the Indian performers in Buffalo Bi...

Heather Cox Richardson This is what teachers feel like when the semester finally drags to an end: Good luck to all of...

Randall Stephens Readers might be interested in the latest from C-Span's American History TV . On C-Span 3, the program offers "e...

Randall Stephens Ah . . . the adventures of the archives. The thrill of the dusty old book hunt. The joy of finding that seldom-seen docume...

Randall Stephens Art rock chameleon David Bowie turned 65 yesterday. The BBC has a slew of programs that it lined up to celebrate the star...

Randall Stephens How did we get here? I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro, a laptop that is a gazillion times more powerful and "pro...

Randall Stephens For the last year I've been kicking around an idea for a new series of video interviews. I thought it might be interes...

. A tip of the felt shako with plume hat to John Fea for this amusing video:

Dan Allosso For those who don’t recognize his name, Sal Khan is the founder and faculty of Khan Academy , which offers over 2,400 educationa...