Middle Ages

Michael Wood's Story of England

The story of Kibworth moves on to dramatic battles of conscience in the time of the Hundred Years’ War. Discover amazing finds in the school archive that help trace peasant education back to the 14th century, when the people themselves set up the first school for their children. Some villagers join in a rebellion against King Henry V, while others rise to become middle-class merchants. Continue

Romans to Normans

Michael Wood's Story of England

Join historian Michael Wood to recover — with the help of the local people and the use of archaeology, landscape, language and DNA — the lost history of the first thousand years of Kibworth, featuring a Roman villa, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and evidence of life after the Norman Conquest. Learn how the oppressive Norman occupation affected the villagers. Continue

Peasants' Revolt and the Black Death - Preview

Michael Wood's Story of England

Follow the story of Kibworth as it reaches the catastrophic 14th century. 7/3/2012 Continue

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Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson

What led the West to be so influential? And how long will the West sustain its supremacy? Premieres on Tuesdays, May 22 and 29, 2012 on PBS (check local listings). Continue

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Cities of Light

Cities of Light journeys into the achievements and failures of a period when Muslims, Christians, and Jews inhabited the same corner of Western Europe and there built a lasting society that was both part of Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East. Continue

Judaism during the Middle Ages

Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

The early Middle Ages in Europe showed an increase in anti-Jewish laws and images. Continue

When Worlds Collide

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE illuminates the origins of today's Latino culture in the United States through the untold story of what happened in the Americas after Columbus. The journey begins in 2010 Los Angeles and travels to Latin America and Spain for a vivid exploration of the first century after the "Old World" encountered the "New World." Continue

Opening

When Worlds Collide

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New World Foods

When Worlds Collide

New World Foods Continue

Indigenous Identities Survive

When Worlds Collide

Indigenous Identities Survive Continue

Peasants’ Revolt and the Black Death

Michael Wood's Story of England

Follow the village of Kibworth as its people become entangled in the Civil War of Simon de Montfort, survives worst famine in European history, and then, as revealed in the astonishing village archive in Merton College Oxford, two-thirds of the people die in the Black Death. Continue

The Journal: Historian Thomas Cahill

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far ranging interview that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas.Cahill, who is best known for his The Hinges of History series of books, which includes the widely read How the Irish Saved Civilization. Continue

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