Nov 16 Napoleon's famed two-cornered hat sold at auction for $2.4 million By Andrew Mach Napoleon Bonaparte's trademark bicorn hat sold at auction near Paris on Sunday for roughly $2.4 million. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Family history comes to life: Dress designs lost in Holocaust uncovered By PBS News Hour When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. Among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedy, a dress designer. Ultimately, neither would get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia. Now, in an… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch Cosbys host 'conversation' of African-American artworks at the Smithsonian By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch 7:25 Did air conditioning play a role in Reagan's election? Searching for ripple effects of history-making tech By PBS News Hour In the new book and PBS series “How We Got to Now,” Steven Johnson presents six game-changing innovations and how they shaped the modern world. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Johnson about surprising connections between invention and American society. Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch Why George Washington -- not Lincoln of FDR -- had the hardest job of any U.S. president By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Remembering Lady Bird Johnson's whistle-stop tour for civil rights By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Hundreds turn out to protest Jefferson County School Board By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Oct 03 Colorado curriculum vote leaves questions on history class debate By Corinne Segal The school board in Jefferson County, Colo., voted last night to draw more community members into the course review process amid a debate over history curriculum that has led more than 1,000 students to walk out of class. Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch AP History class standards spark fight over patriotism and censorship By PBS News Hour When the College Board established new national standards for Advanced Placement U.S. History courses, conservative members of the school board in Jefferson County, Colorado, called for changes to their local curriculum to promote patriotism and the free enterprise system and… Continue watching
Oct 02 Library of Congress obtains rare 1924 World Series footage By Justin Scuiletti As the San Francisco Giants prepare to play the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball's postseason Friday, the Library of Congress has made it possible to watch the Giants battle Washington 90 years ago -- in the World Series. Continue reading