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It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized.

This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

The Mystery of Memory, the first documentary within the AstraZeneca Nobel Medicine Initiative, is a 30 minute documentary which delves into the foundations of today's memory research which was laid by early 20th Century Nobel Prize-awarded pioneers…

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.

For thirty-three years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University.

In this hour long TV program from 1962, Professor Kenneth Clark interviews Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin about the African American community and dealing with racism in the United States.

The Charlie Rose Brain Series explores one of sciences final frontiers, the study of the human brain.

In this lecture Professor Michael Drout focuses on language as a whole and how it develops and is learned. He points out the amazing ability that children have for speaking and comprehending a language...