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  God in America | Article

  People and Ideas: Cold War and Modern Era

  How religious ideas and individuals' spiritual experiences during the Cold War/Modern era of the 20th Century have impacted American social, political and cultural life.

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  Film

  Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

  In 1974, a militant, fringe political group kidnapped teenage newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. In the months that followed, Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.), and their constant, paramilitary audio messages dominated headlines globally.

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  Film

  Oswald's Ghost

  The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today.

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  Fidel Castro | Article

  Filmmaker Adriana Bosch

  In this interview, Cuban-born filmmaker Adriana Bosch describes working on Fidel Castro.

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  Announcement

  2022 Winter-Spring Season

  Documentaries explore the breadth of the American experience through diverse perspectives and intriguing stories.

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  Film

  Rachel Carson

  An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.

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  Film

  Taken Hostage

  Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Unfolding like a political thriller, the story is told through the eyewitness accounts of those who took part in the events.

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  George H.W. Bush | Article

  George H.W. Bush

  Read about the life of 41st President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush, a man born to both economic and political privilege, and tutored in modesty.

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  Article

  The Inaugural Address as Blueprint

  What six speeches told us about the presidents who gave them—and how they would run the country.

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  Stephen Foster | Article

  Blackface Minstrelsy

  Learn more about the history and legacy of the blackface minstrel show in these excerpts of interviews with historians Dale Cockrell, Eric Lott, Deane Root, Fath Ruffins, and Josephine Wright, writers Ken Emerson and Mel Watkins, and performers Nanci Griffith and Thomas Hampson.

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  The Murder of Emmett Till | Article

  Sex and Race in 1955 Mississippi

  Historians discuss the social mores that pervaded the Emmett Till case.

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  God in America | Article

  The Black Church

  Read about the Black Church in America in this feature written by Marilyn Mellowes. Mellowes was principally responsible for the research and development of the series God in America and has served as its series producer.

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  Alone on the Ice | Timeline

  Exploration in the 20th Century

  In 1902, Robert Scott, Edward Wilson and Ernest Shackleton make the first attempt to reach the South Pole.

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  Amelia Earhart | Timeline

  Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937

  Learn about Earhart's life from her childhood spent roaming the outdoors, to her first flying lessons, to her disappearence over the Pacific in 1937.

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  Goin' Back To T-Town | Article

  A Walk Along Black Wall Street

  The Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma was once a Mecca for African American business. Then came the racist mob.

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  Flood in the Desert | Article

  Soledad Luna and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

  How a 10-year-old girl survived one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history.

   

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  Film

  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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  The Lie Detector (español)

  Descubra la historia del polígrafo, el controvertido aparato que transformó el trabajo policial moderno, capturó los titulares y fue elogiado como una herramienta infalible para combatir el crimen. Una historia de buenas intenciones, valores morales retorcidos y consecuencias imprevistas.

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  The Secret of Tuxedo Park | Article

  Tower House Science Squad

  These are the men who visited what Albert Einstein called a “palace of science” — a lab where the greatest scientists from around the world came to work and exchange ideas.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  Groups During the American Civil Rights Movement

  Read descriptions of the different groups involved during the civil rights movement.