Special Features
- Interview: Elaine Tyler May
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Fort Fairlane Giveaway
- Primary Resources: Women, Wishes, and Wonder
- General Article: The Business of Direct Selling
- Primary Resources: Inside the Mind of Hibiscus
- Primary Resources: How to Sell Tupperware
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?
Murder of the Century
A sensational story of power, class, and revenge in New York City when Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White over showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Revisited
An updated look at the Alabama tenant farmer families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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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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New York: A Documentary Film
The history of New York City and the people and forces that have shaped it over the past 400 years is told in a seven-part 14.5-hour series.
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The Polio Crusade
The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease.
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Seabiscuit
Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
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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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