HDMovies

A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examines global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole....

What tools do world historians use in the study of history? This unit begins the study of world history by examining its use of geographical and...

How are history and memory different? Topics in this unit range from the celebration of Columbus Day to the demolition of a Korean museum to the...

How did the many paths of human migration people the planet? From their origins on the African continent, humans have spread across the globe. This...

What do historians know about the earliest farmers and herders, and the evolution of cities? Newly emerging evidence about the 'cradles of...

How did people begin to understand themselves in relation to the natural world and to the unseen realms beyond, and how was religion a community...

How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of the Chinese empire, Mayan regional...

How do religions interact, adopt new ideas, and adapt to diverse cultures? As the missionaries, pilgrims, and converts of Buddhism, Christianity, and...

How do societies assign value to land, labor, and material goods? A comparison of manorial economies in Japan and medieval Europe is contrasted with...

How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso-American...

How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried...

What makes an 'empire'? Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inka empire, this unit examines the construction of empires, their...

What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission,...

What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this episode examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and...

What factors shape the ways in which the basic resources are exploited by a society? From Southeast Asia to Russia to Africa and the Americas, the...

What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances were silver, gold, copper, and...

What role has food played in human societies? Studying the production and consumption of food allows historians to uncover hidden levels of meaning...

How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haitian revolutions and in South...

How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the perspectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and political events...

How was the story of the industrial revolution a global process? Industrialization was and is a global process, not just a European or American...

What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The profound consequences of imperialism are examined in the South African frontier...

How did colonialism and eventual de-colonization mutually affect the colonizer and the colonized? From Zanzibar to India, colonial and post-colonial...

How 'global' were the World Wars? This unit examines Japanese imperialism, the Belgian Congo, and twentieth century peace institutions to study how...

What is the impact of the individual in world history? This unit examines the role of individual and collective action in shaping the world through...

How have the forces of globalization shaped the modern world? This unit travels from the Soviet Union to Sri Lanka and Chile to study the role of...

What are the sounds and sights of an emerging global culture? From World Cup soccer to Coca-Cola, modern icons reflect the intertwined cultural,...

How have global forces redefined both individual and group identity in the modern world? This unit examines the transnational identity that emerged...

The 20th century was a golden age that changed the course of the world rapidly, irreversibly and dramatically. The rapid technological progress of...

The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla,...