The American Experience (1988-2009)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide jobs in natural...

(Airdate: 5/18/09)

The history of the Kennedy family, from Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street and John Kennedy's...

(Airdate: 5/11/09)

Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement protesters seize buildings on the Pine Ridge Indian...

(Airdate: 5/4/09)

Born around 1820, Geronimo eventually established himself as a leading Chiricahua Apache warrior and...

(Airdate: 4/27/09)

Federal troops force thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the southeastern U.S., resulting in...

(Airdate: 4/20/09)

Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his brother, the prophet Tenskwatawa, came closer than anyone to...

(Airdate: 4/13/09)

After facing five decades of immigration, mistreatment and harrowing epidemics, the Wampanoag and...

(Airdate: 2/23/09)

Hernandez v. Texas became a landmark civil rights case, successfully challenging Jim Crow-style...

(Airdate: 2/9/09)

Two months after Lincoln delivers his second inaugural address, some 7 million bid an emotional...

(Airdate: 2/2/09)

In 1954, nearly two million school children in 44 states received Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.

(Airdate: 1/26/09)

Campbell Scott narrates a portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb....

(Airdate: 5/6/08)

President George H.W. Bush's role as leader of the first Gulf War, through the final days of his...

(Airdate: 5/5/08)

President George H.W. Bush's childhood, early career in Texas and rise in the Republican Party.

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A committed humanitarian, baseball great Roberto Clemente challenges racial discrimination.

(Airdate: 4/14/08)

Writer Walt Whitman grew up in a working-class family in Long Island, and became a newspaper...

(Airdate: 3/31/08)

In 1897, Arctic explorer Robert Peary brings five polar Eskimos to New York for study at the...

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Toward the end of the 1800s, William ``Buffalo Bill'' Cody creates and stars in a world-famous...

(Airdate: 2/18/08)

Kit Carson, trapper, scout and soldier of the western frontier, was an illiterate mountain man...

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New York's Grand Central Terminal opened on Feb. 12., 1913.

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When neurologist Walter J. Freeman championed the lobotomy, he believed the procedure would bring...

(Airdate: 1/14/08)

A new look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, with remarks by authors Norman Mailer...

(Airdate: 5/14/07)

As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton helped transform the United States into a...

(Airdate: 4/23/07)

Thousands of young people flock to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the summer of 1967.

(Airdate: 4/9/07)

U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan's murder precedes a mass murder/suicide of more than 900 members of Jim Jones'...

(Airdate: 4/2/07)

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Church of the Four Square Gospel, falls from grace...

(Airdate: 2/12/07)

Defining events in the history of New Orleans include the Reconstruction Constitution, Great Flood...

(Airdate: 2/5/07)

The international race to develop biological weapons in the 1940s and 1950s.

(Airdate: 1/29/07)

The United States initiated a massive airlift of supplies to Berlin in 1948, a result of the Soviet...

(Airdate: 11/6/06)

The California gold rush begins in 1848, when James Marshall finds gold in the American River.

(Airdate: 10/30/06)

The turn-of-the-century yellow-fever epidemic slows down Panama Canal construction and leads to the...

(Airdate: 10/23/06)

The world's first successful in vitro fertilization takes place in Great Britain with a live birth...

(Airdate: 10/16/06)

The resentment toward federal intervention in voting rights and the role of Northern whites;...

(Airdate: 10/9/06)

Four protests involve black students in 1960 and '61; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee;...

(Airdate: 10/2/06)

The lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till; the desegregation of public buses; Brown v. Board of...

(Airdate: 10/2/06)

The lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till; the desegregation of public buses.

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Kenneth Branagh reads from the personal diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist who helped...

(Airdate: 5/8/06)

Annie Oakley thrills audiences as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and changes ideas about the...

(Airdate: 4/24/06)

For over three years, workers battle Arctic weather to construct an 800-mile pipeline.

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David Vetter suffered from a rare genetic disease which forced him to live in a sterile environment...

(Airdate: 3/27/06)

Playwright Eugene O'Neill shapes American theater through his experimental and emotional dramas;...

(Airdate: 2/27/06)

Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack four commercial aircraft in...

(Airdate: 2/6/06)

Jesse James robs the rich and the poor and is a member of a band of Missouri guerrillas during the...

(Airdate: 1/30/06)

The International Military Tribunal tries former leaders of Hitler's Third Reich and convicts them...

(Airdate: 1/23/06)

President John Adams often sought the advice of his wife, Abigail, who was an advocate for women's...

(Airdate: 11/15/05)

Las Vegas, which began as a remote, frontier way-station, celebrates the 100th anniversary of its...

(Airdate: 11/14/05)

Las Vegas, which began as a remote, frontier way-station, celebrates the 100th anniversary of its...

(Airdate: 10/31/05)

The Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 lunar orbit marks the first manned mission to the moon and the first...

(Airdate: 10/17/05)

A U.S. battalion marches into a Viet Cong trap; students protest at the University of...

(Airdate: 5/23/05)

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps publishing heiress Patty Hearst.

(Airdate: 5/9/05)

Actor Robert Duvall narrates the Carter Family's legacy to the country music industry.

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The battle of Okinawa includes the largest amphibian invasion in the Pacific campaign.

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The Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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In 1931, racial tensions abound between Americans and Hawaiians when the young wife of a Navy...

(Airdate: 4/11/05)

The completion of the first trans-Atlantic cable in the second half of the 1800s makes...

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Silent film actress Mary Pickford helped shape the early years of motion pictures.

(Airdate: 2/14/05)

A profile of 1950's sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.

(Airdate: 2/7/05)

Thousands of American soldiers endure bitter weather and difficult conditions to build the Alaska...

(Airdate: 1/31/05)

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro survives assassination plots and deals with a U.S. embargo.

(Airdate: 10/18/04)

Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling twice in the 1930s.

(Airdate: 10/4/04)

Robert F. Kennedy devotes himself to his brother John, then deals with the pain of the...

(Airdate: 5/3/04)

Engineer Joseph Strauss designs the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

(Airdate: 4/19/04)

Enthusiasts annually re-create the Revolutionary battle of Lexington and Concord.

(Airdate: 4/12/04)

The United States expels Russian emigrant Emma Goldman for promoting anarchy and revolution.

(Airdate: 2/9/04)

Actress Kathy Bates narrates the history of Tupperware.

(Airdate: 2/2/04)

Hector Elizondo narrates the story of Tejano leader Jose Antonio Navarro's efforts to protect the...

(Airdate: 1/18/04)

Interviews with friends, associates, journalists, law enforcement and historians depict the last...

(Airdate: 1/6/04)

Reconstruction after the Civil War lays the groundwork for the civil-rights movement of the 1950s...

(Airdate: 1/5/04)

Congress imposes military rule in the South after the Civil War in response to whites' resistance to...

(Airdate: 9/8/03)

The conception, construction and destruction of the World Trade Center.

(Airdate: 7/14/03)

The 1849 disappearance of a Boston physician ends with a guilty verdict in the trial.

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A rescue mission in 1945 frees thousands of American and Filipino soldiers from a Japanese prison...

(Airdate: 4/21/03)

The story of racehorse Seabiscuit.

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The conception and production of the birth control pill.

(Airdate: 2/10/03)

Surgical assistant Vivien Thomas and surgeon Alfred Blalock ignore their social and cultural...

(Airdate: 1/27/03)

Building the transcontinental railroad impacts the nation.

(Airdate: 1/20/03)

In August 1955 two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for...

(Airdate: 1/15/03)

Downtown, Chicago develops its first skyscraper, a uniquely American architectural style; in 1893...

(Airdate: 1/14/03)

Laborers struggling for a share in burgeoning capitalism and its successes, like the railroads,...

(Airdate: 1/13/03)

A fur-trading marsh town, at the terminus of a canal linking the Mississippi to New York, becomes...

(Airdate: 11/12/02)

President Jimmy Carter loses his office due to an energy crisis, inflation and a hostage crisis in...

(Airdate: 11/11/02)

Jimmy Carter wins the White House in 1976; Carter succeeds with Middle East peace treaty, but is...

(Airdate: 5/12/02)

The military career and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

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The military career and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

(Airdate: 4/28/02)

Interviews depict the life of mathematician John Nash.

(Airdate: 4/21/02)

Producer Ric Burns explores the legacy of Ansel Adams and the meaning of his photography.

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J. Edgar Hoover uses John Dillinger's notoriety to polish the reputation of the FBI.

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John Scopes stands trial for teaching evolution in 1925 Tennessee; narrator Linda Hunt.

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Los Angeles erupts in violent riots after the trial for the murder of a Mexican-American youth in...

(Airdate: 1/27/02)

Cherry Jones narrates a history of the Miss America Beauty Pageant.

(Airdate: 1/20/02)

Gutzon Burglum directs the creation of the sculpture at Mount Rushmore; narrator Michael Murphy.

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Former Princeton president, Woodrow Wilson leads the country during World War I; peace treaty;...

(Airdate: 1/6/02)

Woodrow Wilson rises from a Georgia boyhood to become president of Princeton University, champion of...

(Airdate: 11/11/01)

Personal correspondences from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War give accounts of battles and...

(Airdate: 4/23/01)

Songwriter Stephen Foster.

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The story of greed, power and race during the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

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The Lincolns face criticism during the last 16 months of the Civil War, political struggles and...

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The Lincolns endure the loss of a son, Mary's mental instability and a divided nation; the...

(Airdate: 2/19/01)

Chronicling the lives of the Lincolns from their disparate childhoods, through their courtship, to...

(Airdate: 2/12/01)

Immigrant Marcus Garvey rises and falls as leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

(Airdate: 2/5/01)

The U.S. passenger rail system flourishes for two decades with diesel-engined streamliners.

(Airdate: 10/30/00)

James Buchanan Eads builds a steel bridge over the Mississippi River.

(Airdate: 10/23/00)

Four generations of the Rockefeller family.

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A profile shows four generations of the Rockefeller family.

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Coney Island's attractions in the early 1900s; entrepreneur Carl Fisher creates a tropical paradise...

(Airdate: 5/22/00)

George Eastman introduces the Kodak and Brownie camera systems to the photographic industry.

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The early life, baseball career and marriage of sports hero Joe DiMaggio.

(Airdate: 5/1/00)

A group of former slaves tries to save its bankrupt school by performing concerts as the Jubilee...

(Airdate: 4/24/00)

Alabama politician George Wallace survives an attempted assassination and, in his final years, seeks...

(Airdate: 4/23/00)

Politician George Wallace becomes a judge, governs Alabama and tries for the presidency.

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In the 1850s John Brown embarks on a violent crusade against slavery.

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Conflict between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr culminates in a duel in 1804, mortally wounding...

(Airdate: 1/31/00)

President Nixon ends 25 years of mutual antagonism between the United States and China in February...

(Airdate: 1/24/00)

Hungarian immigrant Harry Houdini confronts pain, fear and death to become a legendary escape...

(Airdate: 1/10/00)

Despite personal setbacks, Eleanor Roosevelt fights for the disadvantaged, champions human rights...

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Female pilots face challenges while serving during World War II.

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur defends his military judgment to Washington.

(Airdate: 5/17/99)

FDR recalls Gen. Douglas MacArthur to lead troops into battle during World War II.

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John Wesley Powell journeys down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

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Scientists scramble to prevent a meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in...

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Wireless telegraphy saves passengers after two ships collide in 1909.

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Explorer Richard Byrd endures hardships in the Antarctic; narrator Donald Sutherland.

(Airdate: 1/18/99)

Tragedy attends construction of the Hoover Dam during the Depression; narrator Peter Coyote.

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Spies, scientists and deception mark the American and Russian race to develop the hydrogen bomb.

(Airdate: 11/18/98)

The 20th century begins with concerns about guerrilla war, struggling immigrants, sex, racial...

(Airdate: 11/18/98)

The 20th century begins with concerns about guerrilla war, struggling immigrants, sex, racial...

(Airdate: 11/18/98)

The 20th century begins with concerns about guerrilla war, struggling immigrants, sex, racial...

(Airdate: 11/18/98)

The 20th century begins with concerns about guerrilla war, struggling immigrants, sex, racial...

(Airdate: 3/2/98)

Dust bowl turns wheat fields into desert and provides hardships for farmers.

(Airdate: 2/24/98)

Actor Ronald Reagan turns to politics, gaining popularity and stirring controversy as president.

(Airdate: 2/23/98)

Actor Ronald Reagan turns to politics, gaining popularity and stirring controversy as president.

(Airdate: 2/9/98)

An influenza epidemic kills more than 600,000 people in 1918.

(Airdate: 2/2/98)

Entrepreneur Carl Fisher creates a tropical paradise in Florida.

(Airdate: 10/6/97)

Harry S. Truman becomes a farmer, soldier and president of the United States.

(Airdate: 10/5/97)

Harry S. Truman becomes a farmer, a soldier and the president of the United States.

(Airdate: 7/28/97)

The war concludes as Communists seize Saigon in a lightning attack.

(Airdate: 7/21/97)

The war divides Americans at home; demonstrations lead to violence.

(Airdate: 7/14/97)

Negotiators struggle for years to sign a peace treaty that is quickly broken.

(Airdate: 7/7/97)

President Nixon orders a secret bombing campaign against Cambodia.

(Airdate: 6/30/97)

As U.S. involvement lessens, soldiers and citizens feel the impact.

(Airdate: 6/23/97)

North Vietnam's stunning Tet offensive leads to calls for U.S. withdrawal.

(Airdate: 6/16/97)

North Vietnamese leaders, the Viet Cong and U.S. POWs have different views of the war.

(Airdate: 6/9/97)

The United States' growing role leads to increased American casualties.

(Airdate: 6/2/97)

President Johnson orders bombing raids and dispatches 200,000 troops.

(Airdate: 5/26/97)

The rise of Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh; the United States enters the war.

(Airdate: 2/17/97)

The newly invented subway eliminates congestion and speeds travel in New York City.

(Airdate: 2/10/97)

Philo T. Farnsworth creates the first working electronic television.

(Airdate: 2/3/97)

Traces the telephone from invention to novelty to essential tool of the civilized world.

(Airdate: 1/27/97)

The U.S. business community seeks control of Hawaii during the 1800s reign of Queen Liliuokalani.

(Airdate: 1/20/97)

Impoverished immigrant Andrew Carnegie amasses a fortune and becomes an international...

(Airdate: 10/7/96)

Theodore Roosevelt, with political skill and a magnetic personality, shapes the modern presidency.

(Airdate: 10/6/96)

Theodore Roosevelt, with political skill and a magnetic personality, shapes the modern presidency.

(Airdate: 2/26/96)

Engineers and pilots race against the clock to design and deploy the U-2 spy plane.

(Airdate: 2/12/96)

Narrator Garrison Keillor profiles the shy and self-effacing Wright brothers.

(Airdate: 1/29/96)

Narrator Richard Ben Cramer tells of publisher William Randolph Hearst's attempts to suppress Orson...

(Airdate: 1/22/96)

Narrator Hal Holbrook profiles the life of Richard Daley, Chicago's mayor from 1955 until his death...

(Airdate: 1/15/96)

The Mississippi Voter Registration Project challenges some of the most powerful political forces in...

(Airdate: 11/27/95)

A young theology student organizes a rescue program for the homeless children of New York City.

(Airdate: 11/13/95)

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

(Airdate: 10/23/95)

Thomas Alva Edison announces his plan to produce an electric light for consumer use.

(Airdate: 10/16/95)

Wealthy Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White over the former's wife, actress and chorus...

(Airdate: 5/9/95)

Battle of the Little Bighorn; rise of the Ghost Dance; the Army massacres Indian women and children...

(Airdate: 5/9/95)

The U.S. army battles the American Indians as a result of treaty violations and the extermination of...

(Airdate: 5/9/95)

During the 1870s, Indians of the Great Plains battle the Army over treaty violations and...

(Airdate: 5/8/95)

The territory expansion during the Gold Rush results in conflicts between American Indians and white...

(Airdate: 5/8/95)

Territorial expansion during the Gold Rush results in conflicts between American Indians and white...

(Airdate: 5/8/95)

In the 19th century, American Indians battle the U.S. Army while the Transcontinental Railroad is...

(Airdate: 2/15/95)

The betrayals, defeats and victories in the fight for women's voting rights.

(Airdate: 11/9/94)

U.S. soldiers and combat officers give their perspectives of the Battle of the Bulge.

(Airdate: 10/26/94)

Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux produces films specifically for African-American audiences between 1910 and...

(Airdate: 10/19/94)

The discovery of fraudulent mediums destroyed the social fad of spiritualism during the 1880s.

(Airdate: 10/12/94)

A profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt examines his first two presidential terms, response to the Great...

(Airdate: 10/12/94)

A profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt examines his first two presidential terms.

(Airdate: 10/12/94)

A profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt examines his support for England during the war years.

(Airdate: 10/11/94)

A profile examines Franklin D. Roosevelt's early years in politics.

(Airdate: 10/11/94)

A profile examines Franklin D. Roosevelt's early years in politics, marriage to Eleanor, struggle...

(Airdate: 10/11/94)

Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, and his presidential nomination.

(Airdate: 5/25/94)

Archival material augments oral history about the Allied invasion through Normandy.

(Airdate: 4/6/94)

Interviews, photos, documents and film portray America's reaction to the Holocaust.

(Airdate: 1/26/94)

Archival footage and interviews with Malcolm X's associates and family portray the civil-rights...

(Airdate: 1/19/94)

Linda Hunt narrates the story of Ishi, one of the Indian tribe Yahi which was believed to be...

(Airdate: 11/17/93)

Survivors of a 1938 hurricane share the effects the disaster had on their lives.

(Airdate: 11/10/93)

War footage, photographs, correspondence and interviews chronicle Dwight D. Eisenhower's life.

(Airdate: 11/3/93)

Photographs, footage and interviews illustrate border fighting during the Mexican Revolution.

(Airdate: 10/27/93)

Profile of aviator Amelia Earhart, lost in 1937 on a flight around the world.

(Airdate: 2/8/93)

Rachel Carson perseveres despite criticism and attacks for crusading against unregulated pesticide...

(Airdate: 2/1/93)

Union leader Walter Reuther champions the auto worker.

(Airdate: 1/25/93)

University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne becomes a national symbol.

(Airdate: 12/8/92)

A profile of bandmaster/composer John Philip Sousa coincides with the centennial of the Sousa Band.

(Airdate: 10/28/92)

George and Jacob Donner, James Frazier Reed and their families are trapped in the Sierra Nevada in...

(Airdate: 9/21/92)

John, Bobby and Edward Kennedy carry on their father's political legacy, but tragedy strikes again...

(Airdate: 9/20/92)

When Joseph Kennedy's political aspirations fail, he spurs his sons into politics: John becomes...

(Airdate: 11/19/90)

A study of the stock-market crash of 1929 examines its economic and psychological consequences.

(Airdate: 11/22/88)

In 1886 the United States sends 5,000 men to capture Apache leader Geronimo and 37 followers.

Conservationists vie with those favoring selective commerical use of resources.

A profile of Boston Mayor James Michael Curley examines religious, ethnic and class tensions in the...

As New York City's Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses received both praise and ire.

Immigrants enter the American mainstream through baseball, a game reflecting ideals and hypocrisy.

Glenn Close narrates a portrait of Wyoming cowboys and their families.

Robert Marshall, Aldo Leopold and Howard Zahniser fight to save the diminishing U.S. wilderness.

Reporter Nellie Bly exposes institutional abuse and travels the world in 72 days.

British parents decide whether to send their children to the United States during World War II.

A profile of Lyndon B. Johnson examines his plans for a ``Great Society'' and his plummeting...

Prince Maximilian of Wied and artist Karl Bodmer document the Missouri River region from 1832-4.

A profile examines the first president's everyday relationships.

Lawyer Charles Guiteau pleads insanity after assassinating President James A. Garfield in 1881.

Hitler's rise transforms Sevareid, along with others, from isolationist to interventionist.

A congressional investigation discovers that some big-money '50s game shows were rigged.

Survivors, diaries and letters recall U.S. troops joining forces with the Allies in World War I.

In the 1920s, folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford campaigns to preserve mountain music and dance.

Thousands flock to Coney Island attractions on summer weekdays around 1900.

The Rev. Charles Coughlin decries U.S. economic and social systems via radio to Depression...

Richard Nixon's political career includes his rise from congressman to president, foreign policy...

Film clips and former servicemen describe the 1946 testing of the atomic bomb on the Bikini Islands.

J. Edgar Hoover's G-men become national heroes fighting crime during the Depression.

By the 1920s, corruption runs rampant as men revolt against Prohibition, the ``noble experiment.''

A love of luxury leads to the political ruin of black politician the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell.

In 1932 veterans and their families, numbering 20,000, camp in Washington demanding government help.

Filmmaker Carol Bell examines the living conditions of Alabama tenant cotton farmers.

Former slaves and their allies run a network to help slaves reach freedom.

More than 2,000 people die when severe rainstorms break a dam and flood Johnstown, Pa., in 1889.

Morals and traditions of a small New England town affect the friendship of two 19th-century women.

The Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog becomes a symbol of ambitions, as industry transforms the nation.

For six years laborers endure Indian attacks, desert heat and heavy snows to build the...

In 1963 Gov. George Wallace defies court orders to integrate the University of Alabama.

Photos, ads, journals and archival film show how Phineas T. Barnum transformed the circus.

Narrator N. Scott Momaday details Custer's Last Stand with accounts from whites and American...

Hard times inspire 100,000 to search the Klondike for gold.

Chinese-American entertainers perform in a 1930s San Francisco nightclub for a largely white...

Free blacks of Massachusetts' 54th Infantry fight for the North in the Civil War.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Eudora Welty tells how her past influenced her writing.

Kinescopes, sci-fi movies, newsreels, radio broadcasts and Soviet films recall the fledgling space...

Women found job opportunities during World War II, but often lost the work at war's end.

A U.S. couple works for the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, then returns to America.

Wildcatters risk their last dimes to drill for petroleum, paving the way for today's industry.

Journalist Ida B. Wells leads an anti-lynching campaign in the United States and Europe.

A profile of Lyndon B. Johnson examines his early years in Texas politics, early presidency, and war...

Homemade 19th-century quilts provide glimpses of the era and of the women who painstakingly crafted...

Black battalions in a segregated Army defend the United States. Narrator: Denzel Washington.

Residents recall how '60s integration and urban renewal eradicated successful black businesses in...

Chicago barber Frank Popiolek preserves pride in his Polish heritage.

Activist Debo recalls her efforts to publicize injustices against Oklahoma Indians.

Interviews and film profile Edward K. ``Duke'' Ellington. Narrator: Julian Bond.

Filmmaker Lise Yasui chronicles her Japanese emigrant family in the United States.

Letters, diaries, interviews and film record the migration of Europeans to America from 1890 to...

David Velasquez leads a 1946 strike in Arizona abolishing the two-tier wage system for whites and...

Black rhythm and blues, rejected in the '40s and '50s, later becomes a major influence on music.

Charles A. Lindbergh's iconic status challenges his efforts to lead an ordinary life; narrator Stacy...

Survivors recall the rebuilding of San Francisco after the April 1906 earthquake and fires.

Interviews, archival footage from Japan and the United States, home movies, feature films and...

Participants and film recall an airplane race around the world, the advent of modern aviation.

Robert Redford narrates a film portrait of Yosemite National Park from the 19th century onward.

A history of Cajun and zydeco music in Louisiana features Amede Ardoin, Ivy Lejune, Joe & Cleoma...

American Indians describe the shortcomings of schooling based on white values.