Watch Eleanor Roosevelt discuss service and the development of the Peace Corps with JFK and other officials on Prospects of Mankind.
In the early 1600s, a group of religious radicals left for the New World.Â
The challenges the Pilgrims faced still resonate centuries later as we remember the origins of America.
Watch the opening scene of The Pilgrims.
The longtime governor of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, wrote Of Plymouth Plantation.
The first Thanksgiving wasn't the same holiday we celebrate today.Â
Mayflower passenger John Howland almost didn't make it to the New World.
Shattering the foundations of white supremacy in a segregated state.
In 1967, a demonstration at the University of Wisconsin was the first violent campus protest of the antiwar movement.
In 1965, The Dow Company — best known at that time for making Saran Wrap — began making Napalm, a jellied gas used in warfare in Vietnam.
In October of 1967, a massive protest at the University of Wisconsin turned violent when police arrived on the scene.
In October 1967, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable.
