This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Intolerable Acts, Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. More legislation to control the colonists only incited more rebellion.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the European powers continued fight for control of American territory and trade routes during King George's War. American colonists and Native Americans were drawn into the fight and helped gain territory from the French.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the major European powers' fight for control of the Old World. These conflicts were mirrored in France, Spain, and England's holdings in America where the colonists and Native Americans got drawn into the wars over trade routes and land claims.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam (now New York City) to establish a stronghold in the fur trade.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the story of the laying of the Transatlantic Cable, asserting that it is really the story of one man's determination to change the world.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Quakers, or the Society of Friends, who sought a refuge in America where they could practice without persecution. Quaker William Penn found a permanent settlement in Pennsylvania.
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Tim Mulligan, retired from National Archives and currently teaching at the University of Maryland, will speak on the Christmas Truce of 1914. The truce was not one ordered from above, rather the French, German, and Scottish troops in the trenches began singing carols, which lead to a meeting in "no man's land" (the area between trenches) and exchanging of gifts. The presentation will include a showing of the film Joyeux Noel 2005 about the same topic. Mulligan often uses this film in his course "History through Hollywood."
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the War of 1812, which started when England tried to restrict American shipping.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the situation in North American following the French and Indian War. The French no longer had holdings in the Americas; since Britain was the only remaining superpower left on the continent, the relationship between the colonists and the British grew increasingly strained.
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More than any other American figure, Abraham Lincoln became after his death a global figure, one who spoke—and continues to speak—to peoples across the world. Cosponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the University of Oxford, "The Global Lincoln" will explore the international legacy of the 16th President in the bicentenary of his birth.