# PBS Origins : Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, PBS Origins has 743,000 subscribers, 58,464,944 total views, and 282 videos. It ranks #101,512 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [PBS Origins](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for PBS Origins is “The Lesbian Conductor Who Defied the Nazis”, a Short published Oct 29, 2026.
- These are PBS Origins ’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 30, 2025 and Oct 29, 2026 (19 long-form videos and 29 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 156,242. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The American Caste System They Don't Teach You About” (1,385,912 views, Sep 23, 2026). Least viewed: “The Lesbian Conductor Who Defied the Nazis” (2,928 views, Oct 29, 2026).
- Median length: 12:31 for 19 long-form videos; 1:49 for 29 Shorts.
- In this sample, PBS Origins ’s consecutive uploads were a median of 13 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 28 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Lesbian Conductor Who Defied the Nazis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/Ig-R9NMGwwE/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 2,928 | 2:43 | - |
| [How do flowers symbolize queer history?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/fqEbTCfAYPo/) | 2026-10-28 | Short | 7,145 | 1:56 | - |
| [What if Britain Had Won the War?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/KUS1BPGME_M/) | 2026-10-21 | Short | 12,040 | 2:01 | - |
| [Uncle Sam has a dark past](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/PoQYsi1P3c4/) | 2026-10-12 | Short | 14,407 | 1:09 | - |
| [Who Came On The Last Slave Ship To The U.S.?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/hfjwGEZqLB0/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 188,319 | 1:58 | 8.25x |
| [The Unhinged Ladies Who Terrorized Greedy Merchants](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/g5bTgU9EHhs/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 320,273 | 10:48 | 0.9x |
| [The American Caste System They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/8ljmXvI_9tk/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 1,385,912 | 17:56 | 2.79x |
| [The Black Power movement's problem with Crispus Attucks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/gyEWNB1p8YM/) | 2026-08-26 | Short | 258,721 | 1:53 | 3.09x |
| [Is Everything You Learned About Him a Lie?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/Hr9iU-7juQY/) | 2026-08-12 | Long-form | 169,689 | 12:31 | 2.02x |
| [Listen to audio recordings of the formerly enslaved (part 2)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/pOlDKzZEW3M/) | 2026-08-06 | Short | 44,979 | 2:08 | - |
| [America’s White Slavery Crisis They Don’t Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/TswgbpCndzQ/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 267,934 | 12:44 | - |
| [The 'Public Universal Friend' made some enemies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/dVPCKn4py2g/) | 2026-07-08 | Short | 182,934 | 1:54 | 10.23x |
| [How America's Foundation was Built on Propaganda](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/Uw3C_hkt8PE/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 451,429 | 15:15 | 0.78x |
| [George Washington's Secret Weapon was Queer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/zBTiktaBECg/) | 2026-06-24 | Long-form | 197,471 | 12:43 | - |
| [Listen to Recordings of Formerly Enslaved People](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/XCm3_MH-FTE/) | 2026-06-19 | Short | 217,903 | 1:57 | 1.89x |
| [George Washington’s Obsession They Don’t Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/XAIFN2IYI7s/) | 2026-06-10 | Long-form | 1,074,171 | 14:18 | 1.59x |
| [The “Turning Chinese” Trend Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/kbBz5WyduAE/) | 2026-05-18 | Short | 12,129 | 2:01 | - |
| [What does this sculpture from India have to do with America?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/DQklE7FLRPI/) | 2026-05-13 | Short | 10,376 | 2:04 | - |
| [There's a hidden network behind Chinese restaurants](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/_cKbSrv3hfk/) | 2026-05-08 | Short | 15,110 | 1:28 | - |
| [Why The Founding Fathers Were Obsessed with This Muslim Ruler](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/jn6QKQclgUo/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 1,079,539 | 11:41 | 1.71x |
| [let's unravel the legend of Molly Pitcher](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/eEszZUhDrwQ/) | 2026-04-15 | Short | 326,237 | 1:39 | 5.2x |
| [The Black Deportation Scheme They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/HCuLx5Q1uvo/) | 2026-04-01 | Long-form | 631,878 | 19:27 | 1.09x |
| [There was once a literal melee on the floor of Congress](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/u_nbnicoQlg/) | 2026-03-18 | Short | 8,468 | 2:29 | - |
| [The (Literal) Fight for Free Speech They Don't Teach You](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/0jMb0qehajA/) | 2026-03-04 | Long-form | 114,568 | 11:10 | - |
| [What Rights Did The Biracial Children Of White Enslavers Have?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/ohOV9OiAPWs/) | 2026-02-18 | Short | 121,239 | 1:44 | 7.26x |
| [The Other American Colonies They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/DIPdSYJHxMU/) | 2026-02-11 | Long-form | 540,425 | 13:57 | 1.03x |
| [Was the Lost Colony never actually lost?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/cpXQA3HgrBw/) | 2026-01-21 | Short | 142,794 | 1:49 | 9.13x |
| [The Working Class Uprising They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/Yr5Hv_DuedY/) | 2026-01-07 | Long-form | 618,834 | 10:39 | 1.41x |
| [The Native American State That Almost Was](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/trEvCewrx4c/) | 2025-12-23 | Short | 454,597 | 2:03 | 30.86x |
| [The Forgotten War They Don’t Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/_i5ovjNvwww/) | 2025-12-17 | Long-form | 722,711 | 15:13 | 2x |
| [The Mulan of the Continental Army](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/UqMfPQJUnf4/) | 2025-12-03 | Short | 108,713 | 1:21 | 8.24x |
| [The Thanksgiving Story They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/mCnNBf9VajI/) | 2025-11-19 | Long-form | 511,687 | 11:01 | 1.55x |
| [Did Cross-dressing Help People Escape Slavery?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/vm9O_HBC6GM/) | 2025-11-05 | Short | 16,890 | 1:27 | 1.9x |
| [The Hidden Black Society They Don’t Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/L2XCbqRi6s0/) | 2025-10-22 | Long-form | 1,047,129 | 12:22 | 3.97x |
| [Meet the Guerilla Warrior Who Fought Enslavers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/7Rdw4tx8dVY/) | 2025-10-01 | Short | 16,271 | 1:13 | - |
| [Three American Icons with Hispanic Roots](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/gQNtXd_nGTQ/) | 2025-09-29 | Short | 6,760 | 1:25 | - |
| [The Founding Father They Don't Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/kn1z6rwPlEQ/) | 2025-09-17 | Long-form | 714,049 | 10:49 | 3.91x |
| [How Did Hispanic Communities Shape U.S. Cities?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/U0dNfyhjEUU/) | 2025-09-16 | Short | 8,269 | 1:54 | - |
| [This Park Hides A Mass Grave](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/LE6-rlOSUu4/) | 2025-09-03 | Short | 14,406 | 1:48 | - |
| [The Forgotten American Plague They Don’t Teach You About](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/79i9txkyi7w/) | 2025-08-27 | Long-form | 303,694 | 12:43 | 1.66x |
| [Did a personal grudge almost end The American Revolution?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/cl2YyNieEsY/) | 2025-08-06 | Short | 15,046 | 1:10 | - |
| [The Colonial Mean Girl Who Almost Ended America](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/bqmPuRwX2UI/) | 2025-07-23 | Long-form | 355,449 | 12:00 | 2.68x |
| [The story of Benjamin Franklin's fake news](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/LEvE3Dvlwgg/) | 2025-07-09 | Short | 12,178 | 1:43 | - |
| [The Queer Origins of Vampires](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/V68kG4U-PsA/) | 2025-07-01 | Short | 11,987 | 0:44 | - |
| [The Slavery Lawsuits They Didn't Teach You In School](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/cgtWakZ7ys0/) | 2025-06-25 | Long-form | 367,926 | 11:47 | 4.26x |
| [hero or villain? who decides your legacy?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/Om3psQickks/) | 2025-06-11 | Short | 7,454 | 0:49 | - |
| [Why Is Vivian A Popular Name Among Chinese Americans?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/HSTxTqxKigY/) | 2025-06-06 | Short | 10,398 | 1:58 | - |
| [Why Are KitKats So Popular In Japan?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pbsorigins/videos/dFOwFuj6w6g/) | 2025-05-30 | Short | 15,894 | 1:30 | - |

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