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Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
- Published_at:2013-05-02
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. I wouldn't really call it peculiar. I'd lean more toward horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will talk about what life was like for a slave...
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The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11
- Published_at:2013-04-18
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and its former colonial overlord England. It started in, you guessed it 1812. The war lasted until 1815, and it resolved very little. John will...
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Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
- Published_at:2013-04-11
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is a somewhat controversial figure in American history, largely because he, like pretty much all humans, was a big bundle of...
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Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course US History #9
- Published_at:2013-04-04
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- description: In which John Green teaches you where American politicians come from. In the beginning, soon after the US constitution was adopted, politics were pretty non-existent. George Washington was elected president with no opposition, everything was new and...
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The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course US History #8
- Published_at:2013-03-21
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through...
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Who Won the American Revolution?: Crash Course US History #7
- Published_at:2013-03-14
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- description: 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...
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The Electron: Crash Course Chemistry #5
- Published_at:2013-03-12
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- description: Hank brings us the story of the electron and describes how reality is a kind of music, discussing electron shells and orbitals, electron configurations, ionization and electron affinities, and how all these things can be understood via the periodic...
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Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6
- Published_at:2013-03-07
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. The Revolution did not start on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War didn't start on July 4 either. (as you remember, I'm sure, the Revolution and the Revolutionary War are not...
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The Periodic Table: Crash Course Chemistry #4
- Published_at:2013-03-05
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- description: Hank gives us a tour of the most important table ever, including the life story of the obsessive man who championed it, Dmitri Mendeleev. The periodic table of elements is a concise, information-dense catalog of all of the different sorts of atoms in...
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The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening: Crash Course US History #5
- Published_at:2013-02-28
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the beginnings of the American Revolution in a video titled The Seven Years War. Confusing? Maybe. John argues that the Seven Years War, which is often called the French and Indian War in the US, laid a lot of the...
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The Creation of Chemistry - The Fundamental Laws: Crash Course Chemistry #3
- Published_at:2013-02-25
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- description: Today's Crash Course Chemistry takes a historical perspective on the creation of the science, which didn't really exist until a super-smart, super-wealthy Frenchman put the puzzle pieces together - Hank tells the story of how we went from alchemists...
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The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies: Crash Course US History #4
- Published_at:2013-02-22
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the English took New...
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The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History #3
- Published_at:2013-02-14
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people the encountered in the New World. In short, these relations were poor. As soon as they arrived, the English were in conflict with the native...
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The Nucleus: Crash Course Chemistry #1
- Published_at:2013-02-12
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- description: Hank does his best to convince us that chemistry is not torture, but is instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff. Chemistry can tell us how three tiny particles - the proton, neutron and electron - come together in trillions of combinations...
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When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America: Crash Course US History #2
- Published_at:2013-02-07
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the (English) colonies in what is now the United States. He covers the first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the various theocracies in Massachusetts, the feudal kingdom in Maryland, and even a...
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Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye Part 1
- Published_at:2013-01-10
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- description: In which John Green examines JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. John pulls out the old school literary criticism by examining the text itself rather than paying attention to the biographical or historical context of the novel (that's for next...
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Crash Course World History Outtakes #3
- Published_at:2012-12-27
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- description: In which we see outtakes from the last third of the Crash Course World History series. Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @crashcoursestan @raoulmeyer @thoughtbubbler @saysdanica
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Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I: Crash Course English Literature #2
- Published_at:2012-11-29
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- description: In which John Green examines Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. John delves into the world of Bill Shakespeare's famous star-crossed lovers and examines what the play is about, its structure, and the context in which it was written. Have you ever...
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Human Population Growth - CrashCourse Ecology #3
- Published_at:2012-11-19
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- description: If being alive on Earth were a contest, humans would win it hands down. We're like the Michael Phelps of being alive, but with 250,000 times more gold medals. Today Hank is here to tell us the specifics of why and how human population growth has...
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Globalization II - Good or Bad?: Crash Course World History #42
- Published_at:2012-11-09
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- description: Posters and t-shirts at http://www.dftba.com/crashcourse In which John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth, and lifted a lot of people out of poverty, it also has some...
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Globalization I - The Upside: Crash Course World History #41
- Published_at:2012-11-02
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- description: Look at Crash Course poster #2: http://www.dftba.com/crashcourse In which John Green teaches you about globalization, a subject so epic, so, um, global, it requires two videos. In this video, John follows the surprisingly complex path of t-shirt as...
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Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant: Crash Course World History #40
- Published_at:2012-10-25
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- description: READ THIS: THERE ARE TWO MORE VIDEOS IN THE WORLD HISTORY SERIES. You should also turn on the captions. You'll like them. Also, posters and t-shirts at http://dftba.com/crashcourse In which John Green teaches you about the post-World War II breakup...
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USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39
- Published_at:2012-10-18
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was by no means cool, man. After World War II, there were basically two big geopolitical powers left to...
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World War II: Crash Course World History #38
- Published_at:2012-10-11
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- description: Crash Course poster #2 is available for pre-order! http://dftba.com/product/12x/CrashCourse-World-History-Poster-2-of-3 In which John Green teaches you about World War II, aka The Great Patriotic War, aka The Big One. So how did this war happen? And...
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Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions: Crash Course World History #37
- Published_at:2012-10-04
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- description: Don't forget! Crash Course posters and t-shirts at http://www.dftba.com/crashcourse In which John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily uprooting the dynastic...
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Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History #36
- Published_at:2012-09-27
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way people look at...
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Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History #33
- Published_at:2012-09-06
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- description: In which John Green teaches you about capitalism and socialism in a way that is sure to please commenters from both sides of the debate. Learn how capitalism arose from the industrial revolution, and then gave rise to socialism. Learn about how we got...
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Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31
- Published_at:2012-08-23
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- description: Crash Course poster #1 of 3: http://dft.ba/-ccposter1 In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The...
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The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25
- Published_at:2012-07-13
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- description: Crash Course Poster available for pre-order now: http://dftba.com/crashcourseposter This is the first in a series of three Crash Course World History posters featuring many of the Thought Bubble characters from the episodes. When the series is...
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