Special Features
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Paint by Numbers
- General Article: "The Future" in the 1950s
- Primary Resources: Inside the Mind of Hibiscus
- General Article: Tupperware Home Parties and the Jubilees
- General Article: Positive Thinking in America
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Fashion Show
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?
Public Enemy #1
Legendary bank robber John Dillinger garnered the admiration of many struggling Americans, but FBI took him down with a message: crime doesn't pay.
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Journey to America
Between 1890 and 1920, 12 million people emigrated from Europe arriving in New York Harbor and Ellis Island.
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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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Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
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U.S. Grant: Warrior
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
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The Massie Affair
in 1931, Grace Hubbard Fortescue received a one-hour sentence for murdering a local Hawaiian accused of raping her daughter.
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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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Buffalo Bill
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.
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