The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
The scientist who fell out of love with eugenics.
1 MIN 19 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions. These fears arise, in part, because just 100 years ago, that’s exactly what the eugenics movement tried to do.
11 MIN 12 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.
1 MIN 19 SEC
Eugene O'Neill |
Digital Short
Pulitzer prize winner & Nobel laureate, Eugene O’Neill revolutionized the American stage.
2 MIN 21 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
In 1910, Charles Davenport opened Eugenics Record Office to collect hereditary information on American families.
1 MIN 29 SEC
The Circus |
Digital Short
The sale of Jumbo the African elephant to P.T. Barnum by the London Zoological Society caused an uproar in England.Â
1 MIN 20 SEC
Bonnie & Clyde |
Digital Short
In April 1933, the Barrow gang was holed up in an apartment in Joplin, Missouri, taking a break from the road.
2 MIN 00 SEC
The Chinese Exclusion Act |
Digital Short
The Chinese Exclusion Act was unlike any law enacted since the founding of the republic.
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35 SEC
George H.W. Bush |
Digital Short
Barbara Pierce met George Bush when she was just 16. She married him three years later.
1 MIN 46 SEC
Roads to Memphis |
Digital Short
Fifty years after Dr. King's assassination, two long-time Memphis residents talk about the city.
2 MIN 18 SEC
The Gilded Age |
Digital Short
When one of the richest men in America feared a collapse of the U.S. dollar, he went to Washington with a bold plan.
1 MIN 09 SEC
Into the Amazon |
Digital Short
There are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world.
3 MIN 17 SEC
