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Politics, History & Society

World history

World history sits within Politics, History & Society. Pay attention to historical context, institutional power, and the perspective from which an argument is presented. This selection contains 147 catalog videos from 110 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include history, cold war, propaganda, cgp grey, russia and ancient history. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, music, news, other, podcast, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“The Secret History of Silicon Valley”, listed under Google TechTalks, is cataloged as talk. Steve Blank tells how World War II, Stanford's Frederick Terman and military and intelligence agencies shaped the rise of Silicon Valley. The talk centers on the Cold War electronic warfare and signals…

“[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902”, listed under Denis Shiryaev, is cataloged as demo. Neural-network upscaled, 60 fps, stabilized and colorized version of 1902 footage of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended railway in Germany. The source film comes from MoMA. It gives a vivid view of an…

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Historia Civilis

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