Special Features
- Interview: Michael Nesbitt
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Interview: Horace Silverstone
- Interview: Craig Mitchell
- Interview: Reuben L. Cain
- Timeline: A Selected Wall Street Chronology
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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Summer of Love
In 1967, thousands of hippies flocked to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district.
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Monkey Trial
John Scopes' free speech trial pitted science against religion after the teacher presented Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee school.
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Stonewall Uprising
In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.
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Houdini
The world famous escape artist could escape from everything - except his own mortality.
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Lindbergh
The first man to fly across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh was unprepared for the attention, particularly after his son was kidnapped.
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The Greely Expedition
A daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism amongst a group left abandoned in the high Arctic.
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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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