Special Features
- General Article: Positive Thinking in America
- General Article: Women and Work After World War II
- Interview: Jeffrey Meikle
- General Article: Plastics and American Culture After World War II
- Primary Resources: Top 9 Quotes: Brownie and Earl's Aphorisms
- General Article: Direct Selling and the American Dream
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?
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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New Orleans
From Reconstruction to the 1960s, this film offers a portrait of New Orleans that reflects the best and the worst in America.
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Jesse James
America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself. Part of the Wild West collection.
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A Family Gathering
The personal journey of three generations of a Japanese American family, including their stint in internment camps during World War II.
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The Pill
The story behind the development of the oral contraceptive that put women in control of birth control.
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U.S. Grant: Warrior
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
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Patriots Day
This film follows the 65 "British soldiers" and 67 "American rebels" who reenact the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord.
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