Special Features
- Primary Resources: Women, Wishes, and Wonder
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Top 25
- Timeline: Women, Work, and Plastics History
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Interview: Jeffrey Meikle
- Bonus Video: Gary McDonald, Tupperware Executive
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 Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
A look at five real-life "Rosies," the reality of working in defense plants during World War II and then having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
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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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The Great Famine
The American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921 during the worst natural disaster in Europe in 500 years.
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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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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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Seabiscuit
Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
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