American Experience | Official Site

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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.

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The Riot Report

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"

Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" syndicated newspaper column allowed her to reach millions of Americans with her views on social and political issues, current and historical events, and her private and public life.

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The Poisoner's Handbook

The grave truth behind modern forensics was discovered in 1920s New York.

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America 1900

America 1900 presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century.

Jesse James | Timeline

The Life and Death of Jesse James

Jesse James is born in Clay County, Missouri, son of Baptist minister and slaveholder Robert James and his wife Zerelda.

Plague at the Golden Gate | Article

Hunting the Plague

In 1900, doctors raced to save San Francisco from a disease that had killed hundreds of millions around the world.

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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History

The story of Las Vegas' last hundred years is a distinctly American saga of optimism and opportunity. By 1999, it had become one of the fastest growing cities in the United States and could lay claim, in the words of one historian, to be "the first city of the twenty-first century." American Experience tells a rollercoaster story, peopled with unlikely heroes and villains, to trace the city's development from a remote frontier way-station to its Depression-era incarnation as the "Gateway to the Hoover Dam"; from its mid-century florescence as the gangster metropolis known as "Sin City" to its recent renaissance as a corporately-financed, postmodern, desert fantasyla

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard | Article

Briggs v. Elliott brought us Brown v. Board of Education. Here’s how.

Black parents and children in Clarendon County, South Carolina risked everything to destroy legalized segregation.

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.

A Midwife's Tale | Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt talks about the making of the film A Midwife's Tale, and Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses the importance of Martha Ballard's diary and what it reveals about 17th century America and women's roles at that time.

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.

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The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film

New York: The Center of the World examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise in the fall of 2001 and extraordinary response of the city in its aftermath. It is the eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film.