War, environmental destruction, global warming, species extinction… Spaceship Earth is being trashed by its crew. It’s looking like humanity needs a Plan B. Fast. And, the obvious candidate? It’s staring down at us every night. Mars. It has a total surface area almost equal to Earth’s entire land area. So […]
A Black and Wampanoag sailor who escaped enslavement, Crispus Attucks was the first man to fall when British troops opened fire on a crowd of disgruntled colonists in Boston, 1770. Patriots like Paul Revere branded it a massacre, with Attucks being assigned the role of martyr. The real controversy came […]
See the rest of J’s video here: https://youtu.be/bwoFajsD95k Despite the revolutionary atmosphere in early America, homosexuality was still punishable by death. Though Founding Fathers knew of Steuben’s “proclivities,” they let Steuben continue to help them win. By contrast, British Army chaplain Robert Newburgh stood trial for homosexual conduct, and used […]
In the 1760s, powerful men in the American colonies were in danger. The working class people beneath them were sick of the corruption and bullying, and were ready to rebel. All they needed was a ferocious leader willing to take on the fight. Herman Husband was an enigma. Though a […]
Immigrant and Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon was in jail when he was reelected. Not for the fight he started in the halls of Congress but for his willingness to criticize the relatively new government of the United States. For the first time in American history, freedom of speech was up […]
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://ForThePeople.com/PBS In the 1800s, a powerful coalition of politicians, enslavers, and even some abolitionists backed a radical idea: send free Black […]
Take our audience survey here: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyRH King Philip’s War was the deadliest conflict of the colonial period. What scared the colonists most was the sophistication of Philip’s forces. Indigenous warriors used guerrilla tactics that the English, trained in European-style warfare, were completely unprepared for.So while the colonists were the ones […]
Is blood quantum slowly erasing Native tribes? Host Levi Rickert sits down with Norbert Hill and Megan Hill to tackle the colonial policy that’s mathematically eliminating Indigenous communities — one generation at a time. Drawing from their new book, Beyond Blood Quantum, the Hills examine how a 150-year-old colonial weapon […]
And why they were so hard to see Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The Amazon has always been one of the most mysterious places on earth. When European colonizers arrived in the 16th century, they were captivated by rumors of a golden […]
This is a sci-fi documentary looking at a timelapse of the first 10,000 days on Venus, and the colonization of the yellow planet. Showing the expanding colony over the years, the future science of space exploration, and future technology. Personal inspiration in creating this Venus space mission video comes from: […]
