American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels discusses the film and why we made it — explaining that you cannot understand the world we live in today without understanding the Great War.
During World War I, letters were the main method of communication between soldiers and the homefront. Take a glimpse into the lives of the men and women who lived through World War I, in their own words.
In 1936, nine working-class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin.
Radios across the world were tuned in on August 14, 1936 when nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold at Hitler's Olympics.
Don Hume wasn't a physically imposing athlete, but he had a gift for rowing that helped lead the University of Washington rowing team to Olympic victory in 1936.
