Special Features
- Primary Resources: How to Sell Tupperware
- General Article: Selling Tupperware
- Bonus Video: Gary McDonald, Tupperware Executive
- General Article: The Rise of American Consumerism
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Around the World
- General Article: "The Future" in the 1950s
Using interviews with Tupperware executives and dealers from the early days and wonderful, little-seen footage of Tupperware Jubilees, this funny, probing program re-examines assumptions about American culture in the 1950s.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
What do you think of the Tupperware story? What's your opinion of the postwar consumer boom, the rise of plastics, and other events of the 1950s? Has Tupperware affected you?
Grand Central
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
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Stephen Foster
America's first great songwriter, Stephen Foster, wrote 200 songs but died a penniless alcoholic at 37.
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Riding the Rails
The evocative stories of teenage hoboes crisscrossing America on trains during the Great Depression.
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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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Roberto Clemente
Clemente was an exceptional baseball player whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change.
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The Radio Priest
Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin used the power of radio to rail against the nation's economic system in the Depression.
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Around the World in 72 Days
Intrepid journalist Nelly Bly went on a journey around the world breaking the record of Julius Verne's fictional character.
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