A veteran of the suffrage wars, Harriot Stanton Blatch organized labor activists, spoke to crowds of voting men and lobbied Albany for a suffrage bill.
At the end of the 19th century, “Professor” Henry C. Friend claimed to have a revolutionary process that used electricity to refine sugar—only he wasn’t a professor, and the process was a sham. A close-up of the notorious con man whose sweet nothings swindled investors out of millions
American Experience partners with Retro Report—a news organization dedicated to examining stories after their headlines fade—to connect the dots between past and present.
Photographs of the real people in the Hatfield and the McCoy families, whose famously violent 19th century feud has shaped perceptions of Appalachian life.
Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.
