Sep 24 Watch Protecting ancient treasures from becoming casualties in Iraq and Syria By PBS News Hour Northern Iraq boasts thousands of archaeological sites dating to the beginning of civilization, and they are being destroyed by the Islamic State militants. Meanwhile, more than three years of civil war in Syria has laid waste to much of the… Continue watching
Sep 19 What's your favorite Ken Burns film? By News Desk As "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" wraps tonight on PBS, we were wondering, out of the 25 films Ken Burns has created, which would you recommend if you could only pick one?… Continue reading
Sep 18 Preserving the ancient ruins of Utah's Nine Mile Canyon By Merrill Schwerin In 2000, massive natural gas reserves were discovered on the plateau above Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, an area with thousands of archaeological sites and more petroglyphs than anywhere else in the lower 48 states. That energy boom has created… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Ken Burns captures complicated portraits of 'high-voltage' Roosevelts By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 31 In early Cold War years, U.S. prepped for possible invasion of Alaska By Robert Burns, Associated Press Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the… Continue reading
Aug 08 When Mississippi schools wouldn't integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors By April Brown, Mike Fritz In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,… Continue reading
Jul 03 Watch Finding empowerment in the words of our founding fathers By PBS News Hour We have lost something in our reading of the Declaration of Independence. This is the argument of Danielle Allen’s new book, “Our Declaration,” where she explores the document through a careful look at the words themselves. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
Jul 03 Rebuilding Thomas Jefferson's library By Anne Azzi Davenport Jeffrey Brown visits the Library of Congress to explore what rebuilding Thomas Jefferson's vast book collection can teach us about the very roots of the United States. Continue reading
Jun 12 Do you remember the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? By Colleen Shalby Fifty years ago this July, President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the Civil Rights Act. Do you remember its passage?… Continue reading