In the years after Columbus's first voyage, Spanish adventurers known as conquistadores began to colonize the surrounding areas of the Caribbean and the Americas. In this video, Kim explores the social changes that Spanish colonization created in the New World.

The strategy of the Civil War for the Confederacy (the South) was to outlast the political will of the United States (the North) to continue the fighting the war by demonstrating that the war would be long and costly. The Confederacy also hoped to entice European powers such as the United Kingdom to assist them against the United States in order to protect their cotton supply. The strategy for the United States was to surround the territory of the South in the Anaconda Plan, blockading the Atlantic Ocean and controlling the Mississippi, to keep goods from going into or out of the South and forcing them to surrender.

How have new forms of communication technology, like social media, affected the president's power to communicate with the public?

A deep dive into the Tenth Amendment, which states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In this video, Kim discusses the Tenth Amendment with scholars Randy Barnett and Robert Schapiro.

KA's historian Kim Kutz Elliott discusses some of the basic skills for thinking like a historian.

The Third Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from quartering soldiers in the homes of citizens. Based on a despised practice of the British government before the American Revolution, this ban on quartering seemed necessary at the time of the Framing, but does it have any relevance to our lives today? In this video, Kim discusses the Third Amendment's past, present and future with constitutional scholars Glenn Reynolds and Jay Wexler.

The US Constitution established three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. In this video, Kim discusses how the Framers employed the concepts of separation of powers and checks and balances to limit the power of government.

The original draft of the Bill of Rights had twelve amendments, not ten! What were those unadopted amendments? In this video, Kim discusses the unadopted amendments with scholar Fergus Bordewich.

How could a novel start a war? Kim and Becca discuss the growing sectional conflict in the 1850s that surrounded the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

What actually happened in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that so affected nineteenth century audiences? Kim and Becca discuss the plot and social implications of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

How did Northerners, Southerners, and the international community receive Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel? Kim and Becca discuss the reception and far-reaching consequences of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Models of voting behavior: party-line voting, rational choice, retrospective voting and prospective voting.

Plantation agriculture, and slave labor, united the British colonies in the West Indies and the southern part of the eastern seaboard. In this video, Kim discusses the sugar islands of the Caribbean and how their reliance on enslaved Africans for labor defined plantation society throughout the British colonies.

After the Civil War, westward expansion continued to increase, as migrants moved to the west in search of economic opportunities. In this video, Kim discusses the social and cultural effects of increased migration to the west, including expansion's impact on native people and the environment.

What requirements must an immigrant meet in order to be eligible for naturalization in the United States? Created by Kimberly Kutz.

Why does the United States have territory outside of the Lower 48 states? Kim explains the US government's growing interest in becoming an imperial power in the 1890s.