Special Features
- Timeline: Women, Work, and Plastics History
- Bonus Video: Gary McDonald, Tupperware Executive
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Bonus Video: Jubilee Video: Top 25
- General Article: Positive Thinking in America
- Primary Resources: The Power of Norman Vincent Peale
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?
Miss America
The country's oldest beauty contest has become a battleground and a barometer for the position of women in society.
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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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Stephen Foster
America's first great songwriter, Stephen Foster, wrote 200 songs but died a penniless alcoholic at 37.
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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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Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families of the American West.
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Forever Baseball
A wry philosophical essay on what makes baseball the great American pastime.
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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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Demon Rum
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," and the growth of the liquor smuggling industry.
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