History
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American Experience
An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture. Continue
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Despite bullying at school and rejection by his father, young Steven Caras followed his dream of becoming a dancer with New York City Ballet. How a second-hand camera kept that dream alive, when age and injury took their toll, is the inspiring message of this documentary. Continue
Time Team America
Julie and Joe discuss the difference between historical and pre-historical (or pre-contact) archaeology as well as the methods used to study these sites. Continue
Time Team America
Colin talks about his unique role as artist on Time Team America. Continue
Time Team America
Find out why it takes a lot more than a passion for studying the past to become an archaeologist. Continue
Learning Media
People Shape the World: Las Madres Continue
Learning Media
Maps, Time and World History: Chronological Constructs Continue
Learning Media
Maps, Time and World History Continue
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The Evolution of the Early Chinese Empire Continue
To The Contrary
Former Senator Olympia Snowe spoke with To the Contrary about her new book, "Fighting for Common Ground," how to create bi-partisanship in Congress and her next act. Continue
National Memorial Day Concert
Learn more about the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice and the “National Memorial Day Concert” tribute to all the veterans of this “forgotten war.” Continue
Time Team America
The trowel is the archaeologist's signature tool -- good for everything from sculpting the walls and floors of a unit to inspiring raging debates. Continue
Time Team America
Julie, Joe and Chelsea describe some of the differences between academic archaeology and cultural resource management. Continue
Global Voices
Niños de la Memoria tells the story of the search for children who disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war. Survivors of massacres carried out by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran Army battalions, many were “sold” into adoption in the U.S. and Europe, never knowing their true history or identity. Continue
Learning Media
Early Economies Continue
Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
The high ideals of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” didn’t make it into the Constitution in 1787. It took three-quarters of a century, and a bloody civil war, before the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 made equality a constitutional right and gave the federal government the power to enforce it. Continue
