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  • Dinosaur Wars | Primary Source

    Searching for Fossils

    In 1870, O.C. Marsh led his first fossil hunt in the American West with Buffalo Bill as a guide.

  • Film

    The American Diplomat (español)

    Explore las vidas y el legado de tres embajadores afroamericanos que rompieron las barreras raciales para alcanzar nombramientos de alto rango en las administraciones de Truman, Eisenhower y Kennedy; y el impacto duradero que dejaron en el Servicio Exterior.

  • American Comandante | Article

    Castro and the Cold War

    For four decades, Castro stood at the center of a dangerous game for political pre-eminence in the Third World.

  • Alone on the Ice | Article

    Raimond Goerler

    Raimond Goerler, Archivist of the Byrd Polar Center Archives at Ohio State University, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.

  • Film

    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.

  • Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory | Timeline

    Timeline of the Jubilee Singers

    A chronology of the Jubilee Singers and their performances and journeys.

  • Film

    Grand Coulee Dam

    At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

  • Woodrow Wilson | Timeline

    The Life and Times of Wilson

    Learn about the events Woodrow Wilson lived through.

  • Film

    Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided

    The six-part story of a frontiersman farmer and a wealthy Confederate slave-owner's daughter.

  • 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.

  • Film

    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.

  • Film

    Fidel Castro

    On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

  • Film

    Walt Whitman

    He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

  • The Amish | Timeline

    Amish in America

    The first Amish arrived in America in the mid 1700s. Explore a timeline of events from their arrival through 2011. 

  • America 1900 | Timeline

    Timeline

    View a selection of events from 1900.

  • Film

    God in America

    Inside the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America — from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE. This six-hour series examines how religious dissidents helped shape the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena.

  • Film

    The Transcontinental Railroad

    The remarkable story of greed, innovation and gritty determination to build a railroad connecting California to the East.

  • Film

    We Shall Remain

    From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.

  • Ansel Adams | Timeline

    Ansel Adams and the Age of Photography

    Learn about the history of photography technology and the career of Ansel Adams

  • Film

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.