Save the date for a special livestream with the Crash Course team! During the Complexly Learn-a-thon we're celebrating our mission of making trustworthy stuff that lowers barriers to knowledge-building, and sharing glimpses behind the scenes.
#learnathon2024
Meet the host of Crash Course Botany! Alexis Nikole Nelson
@blackforager
is an outdoor educator, teaching her followers how to interact with their surroundings through foraging.
🌱Find out just how exciting plants are with Crash Course Botany!
Welcome to Crash Course Black American History, hosted by
@ClintSmithIII
.
In this series we'll learn about the experience of Black people in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people at Jamestown, to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Crash Course is 10 years old today! 🎂 Our first video was posted on January 26th, 2012. A lot has changed since then... We've created 40+ courses, and our community now has over 13 million subscribers! THANK YOU for watching, learning, and making the past 10 years possible. ❤️
Coming soon: Crash Course Tuberculosis. In this long-form deep-dive, host
@johngreen
will teach us about tuberculosis from a historical, cultural, and scientific perspective.
Meet the host of Crash Course Art History: Sarah Urist Green. Sarah is a curator & art educator who's spent her career seeking ways to make learning about art more accessible, less pretentious & relevant to life today. She also makes videos as
@artassignment
.
It takes a village to create high quality educational material that is free for everyone. Not just our team of writers, editors, subject matter experts and more, but also YOU!
Help Crash Course continue to reach millions of learners at
Crash Course Art History is coming April 11! This won't be the usual chronological, Eurocentric, names-and-dates version. In this series we'll hear a more expansive tale of art history, featuring diverse ways of making and a huge range of artists from across the globe.
We hope that this series helps us all learn about things we may not have learned in school. Like in this episode, we’ll focus on the heightened levels of violence that erupted into a series of riots across the nation in 1919, also known as the Red Summer.
We did a thing! Crash Course has made our television debut with a special segment on the history of Wales in
@RMcElhenney
and
@VancityReynolds
's new docuseries Welcome to Wrexham.
In organic chemistry, different reactions can take place at vastly different speeds. To better understand whether a reaction will actually happen, and how useful that reaction is, we need to understand thermodynamics and kinetics. Let's dive in!
The history of Wales is long. And kind of… complicated. Learn more about Wales by watching our television debut in Episode 7 of Welcome to Wrexham
@WrexhamFX
! 🏴
If you already watched it, what did you think? What did you learn? 💭
The story of
#tuberculosis
spans far wider than most realize. The disease has left its mark all through human history worldwide and throughout global cultures — with impacts on contemporary fashion, geography, and so much more.
Good luck to everyone taking AP tests this week! Remember:
-Get a good night's sleep
-Eat a healthy breakfast
-Drink water
-Take deep breaths
You're gonna rock it!
Join us for the YouTube premiere of Crash Course Lecture: Tuberculosis on Monday 3/25 at 12 noon ET.
In this brand new Crash Course lecture format, host
@johngreen
will dive into the history of this curable disease, as well as investigate why so many are still dying from it.
Congratulations
@lily_gladstone
on your Golden Globe win!
Lily won Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. She's also the host of Crash Course Film Production!
Here is the first episode of Crash Course Black American History. In it, we’ll learn about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which spanned nearly 400 years and brought millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
PM2.5 particles are the tiniest of polluting particles that can have some bad effects. Learn more with Crash Course Climate & Energy, and stay safe out there, everyone!
Want to hang out with
@hankgreen
,
@alizecarrere
and
@johngreen
while you study for your exams?
Join us next week for livestream review sessions focused on Anatomy & Physiology, Geography, and World History. You can submit questions on
@Flipgrid
here:
To everyone getting their
#APScores
today:
✨It's okay if they're not what you were hoping
✨You rock either way
✨You challenged yourself and took a hard test and we're proud of you!
*Drumroll*….. Crash Course Linguistics is here!!
In this series,
@ItsRadishTime
will teach us all about language— from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, to language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!
Even wonder how Crash Course series are made?
Well, it looks a little different than it did several years ago! To stay safe, Crash Course has been shooting remotely over the last two years. Crash Course Geography was recorded in
@alizecarrere
's living room!
Are you a scientist working with animals? We'd love to feature photos/videos of you doing science in the field or lab in future Crash Course Zoology episodes!
If your footage is selected we pay a flat rate of $50/photo & $100/video. More info here:
Are you a Spanish-speaking educator who teaches college-level science courses? We’re developing a new series of Crash Course Chemistry videos in Spanish and we would love your feedback! More info here:
This episode of Crash Course Black American History is focused on slavery in the American colonies.
We’ll learn about the role slavery played in the early American economy, and how it became a legally accepted practice in the first place. Watch here:
The Crash Course Team has agreed that our role right now is to support and not distract from the conversation around police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The first-ever Crash Course Office Hours are happening NEXT WEEK!!
🧠 A&P with
@hankgreen
on Monday
🌎 Geography with
@alizecarrere
on Wednesday
📜 World History with
@johngreen
on Thursday
Submit questions on
@Flipgrid
here:
Recognize this set? It’s from Crash Course World History, one of the first Crash Course series that launched in 2012. A lot has changed since then! What was the first Crash Course series you watched? 🎊
In Crash Course Pods: The Universe, astrophysicist
@AstroKatie
& Curious Person™️
@johngreen
do one of the most human things there is: try to understand the vast universe we find ourselves in.
Starting 4/24, listen on our YouTube channel and wherever you get your podcasts!
Premiering today at 12 pm ET: the first ever Crash Course Lecture! Join us and guest lecturer John Green in the live chat as we learn about the history and science of
#tuberculosis
and how we can
#StopTB
In this episode of Crash Course Black American History, we’ll unpack the competing philosophies of Booker T. Washington & W.E.B DuBois, two great political leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Watch the full video here:
Lots of people watch Crash Course to study for classes... but lots of you also just watch it for fun! What's your favorite Crash Course series to watch for fun?
Let's learn about Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall rebellion. Serving as a pivotal moment in the modern Gay Rights Movement, Stonewall began on June 28th 1969. And though the rebellion lasted less than a week, the reverberations lasted for generations.
The Civil War was one of the deadliest in US History, and let's be clear: it was about slavery. In this episode of Crash Course Black American History, we'll learn about how Black people participated in the war, the Emancipation Proclamation, and more.
Whether you’ve been a Crash Course patron for several years or you just joined today, THANK YOU. We really rely on our patrons, and your support helps keep Crash Course free for everyone, forever. ❤️
So instead, we're just going to start asking for more help.
This is me asking for that help right now.
Support us on Patreon. Right now. Any amount. When you're done, retweet this. Thank you.
Crash Course is hiring! We're looking for a staff writer to help shape the content for our Crash Course channels and projects. This will be done by researching, writing, and revising scripts. Apply here by Jan 18th:
We'll be live in ~45 mins on IG w/
@ClintSmithIII
,
@stanwmuller
,
@hankgreen
&
@johngreen
to celebrate the wrap of Crash Course Black American History! We'll be talking about the making of the series, reflecting on its impact, and answering your questions.
On Wednesday we wrapped up our Crash Course Black American History series. This series was many years in the making, and we want to celebrate all the hard work that went into it!
Today's video is about the legendary writer Toni Morrison. Morrison is best known for her novels which chronicle the experiences of Black Americans throughout history. She was the first Black American Woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
In this episode of Crash Course Black American History, we're learning about the Stono Rebellion, an uprising led by enslaved people in South Carolina.
Black Americans have long fought in America's wars, very often fighting for a country that doesn't fight for them. In this episode of Crash Course Black American History, we'll learn about the experiences of Black Americans in World War II.
In this episode of Crash Course Black American History, we’re learning about the US Constitution, including the 3/5 Compromise and the Slave Trade Clause which entrenched the institution of slavery in the fundamental law of the new United States.
Crash Course viewers are the best. So many of you have already purchased a coin to help us reach more learners for free. Thank you.
High-quality, educational content for free only works when the people who are able to pay, do so.
Introducing Crash Course Recess! In our first episode of this fully animated pop-up series,
@wheezywaiter
tells us the tale of The Inventor Who Vanished:
Introducing... Crash Course Outbreak Science! In this course,
@PardisSabeti
will talk us through what causes infectious disease outbreaks, the history of outbreaks, and how we can all work together to tackle and prevent them. Watch the preview here:
To everyone who purchased a coin, who supports on Patreon, or who watches our videos and shares them with others: THANK YOU! Crash Course wouldn't exist without you.
Venture into the deep past of the cosmos with Crash Course Pods: The Universe. In episode one,
@johngreen
and
@AstroKatie
start at the beginning -- the first 60 seconds of the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
Welcome to Crash Course Zoology!! 🐌🐍🦁
In this series, we’ll take a deep dive into the weird & wonderful biology of animals. Our host,
@RaeWynnGrant
, will guide us across the tree of life as we explore what makes an animal an animal!
It's been a big week at Crash Course! 🥳
After 2+ years of work, Crash Course Geography and Crash Course Organic Chemistry both uploaded their final episodes this week. So many people worked so hard on these videos– huge shoutout to these teams! ❤️