Be transported through the centuries with these talks for your inner (and outer) history buff.

FTD Facts brings you the most interesting facts about everything. Our mini documentaries and lists explore countries, people, society, religion, history, and more to debunk myths and uncover the mysteries of our world and universe.

These fascinating talks offer fresh perspectives on black identity, and fascinating insights on how to finally defeat racism.

فديو يوضح 13 خريطة رُسمت بناء علي استطلاعات عالمية عن 13 موضوع مختلف.

تخصيص نمط المقرر الدراسي من خلال بوابة التعلم الإلكتروني لجامعة الأمير سطام بن عبدالعزيز- PSAU (جامعة سلمان بن عبدالعزيز سابقاً- SAU)...

يأخذكم نيكولاس نيجروبونتي، مؤسس مختبر الميديا بمعهد مساتشوستس للتقنية، برحلة زمنية خلال 30 سنة من التقنية. يلقي المتنبئ البارع الضوء على الواجهات والابتكارات التي توقعها خلال سبعينيات وثمانينيات القرن الماضي، والتي كانت عندئد محل سخرية ولكنها أصبحت جزءاً من حياتنا اليومية اليوم. ويترك لكم آخر توقع (سخيف؟ رائع؟) لـ 30 سنة القادمة.

How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is working on something a bit different: robots with uncertainty. Hear his vision for human-compatible AI that can solve problems using common sense, altruism and other deeply human values.

السماح باشتراكات البريد الإلكتروني من خلال البلاكبورد بجامعة الأمير سطام بن عبدالعزيز- PSAU (جامعة سلمان بن عبدالعزيز سابقاً- SAU).

It’s all about understanding. These talks explore perspective -- looking past the stereotype and learning who people are, what they do and why they do it to build new cultural understandings.

This one hour and fifteen-minute lecture focuses on influential art movements that developed around 1950–1965. The historical context of the postwar era demonstrates the shift away from Europe as the center of avant-garde culture and highlights the political and economic dominance of the United States during the mid-twentieth century.

These conditions are reflected in the art historical emphasis often given to innovations in visual art that occurred in New York. This narrow viewpoint has expanded in recent years as scholars shed more light on concurrent activities in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and other regions, as well as to disciplines including dance, theatre, and music that have informed contemporary visual art.

There will be a focus on three major themes, with a section for each:

Destruction/iconoclasm and the erasure of culture (due to ideology, neglect, or disregard for the object)
Looting and the appropriation of objects (for purposes of propaganda and economic gain)
Restitution, repatriation, reconstruction, and artistic interventions
Because of the complexity and often overlapping issues of looting and destruction, many examples will fit into more than one theme.

This lesson is intended to be completed in two one-hour-and-fifteen-minute sessions. While the lesson itself contains material for a much deeper discussion of these issues, instructors should feel free to choose the works, time periods, and geographical locations that fit most comfortably into their course.

The art of ancient Egypt and the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art come together in this comprehensive resource for educators, which includes summaries of ancient Egyptian history and art, maps, lesson plans and classroom activities, a bibliography, and a glossary. The descriptions of the works and other information are aimed at increasing knowledge and pleasure in viewing Egyptian art at The Met or other museums. The materials can be adapted for students of all ages, interests, and abilities, and can be used to enrich any curriculum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's teacher-training programs and accompanying materials are made possible through a generous grant from Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Rose.

Many features of civilization originated in the lands we call the ancient Near East, a vast and varied area from Turkey to the Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan and from the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula. This essential guide for K–12 educators introduces the variety and diversity of art produced by the rich and complex cultures that flourished in this region during an equally vast time period, from the eighth millennium B.C. to the middle of the seventh century A.D. Learn about the cultural, archaeological, and historical contexts for a selection of thirty works of art in the form of sculpture, silver and gold ritual vessels and objects, monumental reliefs, cuneiform tablets, and stamp and cylinder seals. Curriculum connections, discussion questions, lesson plans, and activities for a range of grade levels provide useful strategies for teaching in the classroom. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.

These educational materials are made possible by Rolin Foundation USA.

Dr. Nigel Spivey uses the 2004 election campaign of George Bush to explore the manner in which art and architecture have been used to propagandize powerful figures since time immemorial. Spivey’s four case studies hit four keys areas in the early part of the art history survey—Stonehenge (Prehistory), Darius the Great and Persepolis (Ancient Near East), Alexander the Great (Ancient Greece), and Augustus (Ancient Rome)—in just under 56 minutes. Students begin the course prepared to see ancient art as connected to the contemporary world around them, and to discuss how images can be used politically, economically, and socially—not just as objects of display in a museum or PowerPoint. The mess of electioneering today has great precedent in ancient cultures—they produced propaganda too.

Learn about art and culture of the Islamic world and glean ideas for supporting studies of English language arts, math, science, social studies, world history, and visual arts. Each of the units listed below is also available as a downloadable PDF.

KA's History Fellow Kim Kutz talks about strategies for improving your historical essays.

This unit looks at Babylonian mathematics. You will learn how a series of discoveries have enabled historians to decipher stone tablets and study the various techniques the Babylonians used for problem-solving and teaching. The Babylonian problem-solving skills have been described as remarkable and scribes of the time received a training far in advance of anything available in medieval Christian Europe 3000 years later.