Choosing A Specific Site
This clip explores some of the factors that go into the decision about where to locate a business once the region and city have been chosen. Depending on the type of business, factors to consider include: the physical at..
Choosing The National Capital
Historian Peter Onuf talks about Thomas Jefferson's decision to allow the national capital to be located in Washington D.C. Professor Onuf explains that Jefferson agreed on Washington D.C., because he thought that the po..
Chris Hedges
In this lecture “Empire of Illusion,” author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign reporter Chris Hedges addresses the futility and horror of war. The lecture is based on a famous speech denouncing the Vietnam War by th..
Christians, Jews, and Moslems in medieval Spain
Due partly to the weakness of its Visigothic rulers, partly to its proximity to Africa, the Iberian peninsula was conquered by Berbers and by Arabs belonging to the Ommayad Dynasty of Damascus. This program describes the..
Circulatory system: the plasma pipeline
This program covers the circulatory system's important roles in transportation, purification, and regulation. Topics include the structure and function of the heart; the role of blood as a connective tissue; arteries, ve..
Civil Rights Legislation and Equal Opportunity
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about Civil Rights legislation and equal opportunity in the United States. Professor Conley states that while Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's "opened th..
Civil Rights Movement Evolves, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the evolution of the Civil Rights movement, explaining how it moved from an emphasis on integration and a philosophy of "race doesn't matter," t..
Civil Rights Movement, The: Beginnings
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the seeds of the civil rights movement in the years following World War II. Professor Gerstle explains that the move towards racial equality in America was motivated to some ..
Civil War, The: A Revolutionary Event
Historian and author Ira Berlin argues that the Civil War was a revolutionary event, not only because it transformed the lives of African-Americans, but because it destroyed the institution of slavery, as well as the wor..
Class-Based Affirmative Action:
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about class-based affirmative action as an alternative to the much more common, but increasingly unpopular race-based affirmative action.