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    Soundtrack for a Revolution

    The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.

  • D-Day | Article

    Featured in Film

    Find out more about the People & Events featured in the film.

  • Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World | Article

    Philanthropy 101

    Andrew Carnegie made his fortune and then, unlike any industrialist of his time, began systematically to give it away.

  • New York: A Documentary Film | Timeline

    Timeline (1609-2001)

    Learn about some important events in New York history, from 1609 up to 2001.

  • Sandra Day O'Connor: The First | Article

    Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Changed the Supreme Court, and the Country

    Despite their differences, the first and second female Supreme Court justices found common ground on women’s equality.

     

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    Citizen King

    In August 1963, a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism.

  • Film

    The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

    In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

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    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright — set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. This American Experience production is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past.

  • Ulysses S. Grant | Timeline

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Timeline of Ulysses Grant, from his birth on April 27, 1822, to his death on December 14, 1902.

  • Lost in the Grand Canyon | Article

    Other Explorers

    Read about the people who accompanied John Wesley Powell: George Bradley, the Howland brothers, William Dunn, John Hillers and Thomas Moran.

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    Ansel Adams

    From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent.

  • Chasing the Moon | Article

    Wernher von Braun’s Record on Civil Rights

    On June 8, 1965, one of 20th century America’s most notorious racists was stopped in his tracks by a former Nazi preaching racial integration.

  • Film

    LBJ

    LBJ exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs through Congress with astounding success, but his visions of a Great Society were swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam.

  • Film

    Freedom Summer

    A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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    The Movement and the “Madman” (español)

    Descubra la historia de cómo se enfrentaron el presidente Nixon y el movimiento contra la guerra en 1969. Contada a través de relatos de primera mano, la película revela cómo los líderes del movimiento movilizaron a grupos dispares para crear dos protestas masivas que cambiaron la historia.

  • Riding the Rails | Article

    Tales From the Rails

    Born on a Nebraska farm in 1916, Donald Newhouser rode the rails from 1935 to 1938, following the harvests through the West: the hay fields in Colorado, potato picking in Idaho, apples in Washington, hops in Oregon.

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    Vietnam: A Television History

    A six-year project from conception to completion, Vietnam: A Television History carefully analyzes the costs and consequences of a controversial but intriguing war. From the first hour through the last, the series provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues.

  • The Duties of American Citizenship, 1883 poster image
    TR | Primary Source

    The Duties of American Citizenship, 1883

    TR calls on Americans to participate in political life. 

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    Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

    By the late 1980s, Iowa farmers Russ and Mary Jane Jordan had accumulated a large debt. Faced with losing their farm, The Jordans came up with a dramatic solution to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures swept the nation.

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    Silicon Valley

    Decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, the invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.