Special Features
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Photo Gallery: The Roaring 20s
- Interview: John Kenneth Galbraith
- Interview: Arthur Marx
- Biography: Tom McCormick
- Interview: Robert Sobel
The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
Did you or a family member experience life in America in the 1930s? What does the decade mean to you? Share your American experience with us.
Forever Baseball
A wry philosophical essay on what makes baseball the great American pastime.
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Barnum's Big Top
P.T. Barnum -- huckster, con man, promoter, entertainer and founder of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
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Ballad of a Mountain Man
Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his campaign to preserve mountain music and dance.
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Houdini
The world famous escape artist could escape from everything - except his own mortality.
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Forbidden City, USA
Before World War II, young Chinese Americans defied cultural tradition in San Francisco's Chinatown, previously closed to outsiders.
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Tupperware!
This funny, probing program re-examines assumptions about American culture in the 1950s.
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The Amish
Their intense faith and strict adherence to 300-year-old traditions have by turn captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused America.
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Coney Island
The internationally famous carnival of delights in New York was the birthplace of the hot dog and the roller coaster.
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