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  Edison

  An in-depth look at America's most famous inventor and his role in America's future.

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  The Busing Battleground (español)

  The Busing Battleground captura de manera visceral las tensiones de clase y la violencia racial que se produjo cuando los estudiantes negros y blancos de Boston fueron transportados en autobús por primera vez de un barrio a otro cumpliendo con la orden judicial de eliminar la segregación.

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  New Orleans

  New Orleans: the utterly original American city that lies at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi and at the beating heart of the great American experiment. Walled in on almost all sides by water, pressed together by the demands and dangers of geography, the crowded streets of New Orleans have always been a laboratory where the social forces that characterize American life play out in dramatic and, at times, disastrous fashion. Over the course of two provocative hours, American Experience tells the story of this remarkable city.

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  The Quiz Show Scandal | Timeline

  100 Years of Crime

  Timeline of 100 years of crime from 1896 to 1996.

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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

  Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how the town – and America – were transformed.

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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.

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  Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

  In 1978 over 900 people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists.

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  The Gold Rush

  The sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling state, and the nation.

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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.

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  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.

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  Fly With Me (español)

  La historia de las mujeres pioneras que cambiaron el mundo mientras lo recorrían volando. Aunque les criticaron su feminismo, las “azafatas”, como se les llamaba, estuvieron a la vanguardia de la lucha por garantizar la igualdad de género y transformar los lugares de trabajo.

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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.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  British Leaders

  Thomas Gage came to America in 1754, and rose to his military rank in America in 1763, after fighting in the Seven Years War.

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  Hard Hat Riot

  Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.

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  Citizen Hearst | Image Gallery

  How a Public Media Campaign Led to Japanese Incarceration during WWII

  Images by photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams document this shameful moment in America’s history.

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  Streamliners: America's Lost Trains | Timeline

  Streamliners of America

  Read the history of Streamliners in America.

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  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.

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  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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  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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  The Abolitionists

  Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.