This audio program offers speeches from a wide variety of thinkers and leaders. You will here important statements made by Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Royalty, Statesman civil rights advocates and more.
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation...
Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards.
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue.
What, if anything, can be learned by studying history? This is the question Will and Ariel Durant...
In the Second World War, every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Hitler regime that find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record.
With this series we will investigate the gods, heroes, and myths that formed bedrock of belief in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
This course presents and at the same time critiques a narrative world history from prehistoric times to 1500.