The Presidents: The Conventions | American Experience
NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr and American University historian Allan Lichtman discuss the role of the party conventions in 2008.
The Presidents: The Democratic Party and Expanding Opportunity | American Experience
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson places Barack Obama`s 2008 presidential campaign in the context of Democratic Party history.
Riding the Rails | American Experience
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America.
The Presidents: American Conservativism | American Experience
Historian Dan Carter places John McCain`s 2008 presidential campaign in the context of the American conservative movement.
The Presidents: The Economy | American Experience
MIT historian Meg Jacobs examines the impact of economic issues during election years.
Truman | American Experience
After eighty-two days as Vice-President, Harry Truman became the thirty-third President of the United States.
FDR | American Experience
In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis.
The Presidents: First Ladies | American Experience
John Jay College historian Blanche Wiesen Cook looks back at Eleanor Roosevelt and discusses the role of the First Lady.
George H.W. Bush: At Kennebunkport | American Experience
Filmmakers Austin Hoyt and Callie Taintor Wiser discuss the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Roberto Clemente: Filmmaker Interview | American Experience
Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz discusses his biography of baseball`s first Latino superstar.
Roberto Clemente: Legacy | American Experience
New York Yankees pitcher LaTroy Hawkins discusses the legacy of Roberto Clemente.
Walt Whitman | American Experience
Contemporary writers and poets read excerpts from Walt Whitman`s signature work, Leaves of Grass.
The Presidents: Foreign Policy Leadership | American Experience
International relations professor Ernest May from Harvard`s Kennedy School of Government and history professor Kristin Hoganson from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign describe foreign policy, presidential leadership, and elections.
Minik, The Lost Eskimo | American Experience
When Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned from Greenland in 1897, he brought with him a seven-year-old boy named Minik.
The Presidents: Critical Elections | American Experience
Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin looks back at the 1968 presidential campaign and discusses the theory of "critical elections."
The Fight | American Experience
In the 1930s, Joe Louis crossed boxing`s color line to become the most famous and influential black person in America.
Buffalo Bill | American Experience
As the American frontier was disappearing, William Cody transformed himself into a master showman named Buffalo Bill.
Kit Carson | American Experience
The legendary trapper, scout and soldier was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Kit Carson mastered it.
The Presidents: Campaigning and the Primary System | American Experience
Boston University historian Bruce Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, looks back at the 1976 presidential campaign and finds parallels to the 2008 campaign.
The Lobotomist | American Experience
Walter J. Freeman was an ambitious neurologist that invented a radical surgery to combat mental illness: the transorbital lobotomy. A patient of Doctor Freeman and families of lobotomy recipients describe how the procedure changed their lives.
Oswald`s Ghost | American Experience
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today. Filmmaker Robert Stone discusses his deconstruction of the assassination and how this single event forever changed...
Grand Central Preview | American Experience
Executive producer Mark Samels and filmmaker Michael Epstein discuss an upcoming American Experience film on New York`s Grand Central Station.
Daughter from Danang | American Experience
In 1975, the U.S. sponsored Operation Babylift, evacuating war orphans from Vietnam. Author Aimee Phan talks about the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE program DAUGHTER FROM DANANG, which tells the story of a Babylift evacuee`s troubled reunion with her Vietnamese...
The Black Lions Remember Vietnam | American Experience
Meet the men of the Black Lions battalion. Forty years ago, they walked into a Viet Cong ambush.
The Space Race | American Experience
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Roger Launius, curator at the National Air and Space Museum, describes Sputnik`s impact on the Space Race.
World War II Memories | American Experience
World War II veterans describe the brutal conditions and deadly combat faced on the battlefronts of Europe and the Pacific.
Chicago: City of the Century | American Experience
In the mid nineteenth century Chicago emerged as an industrial metropolis, fueled by a diverse work force. Historian Dominic Pacyga describes Chicago`s prominence in the national labor movement and its reaction to the Labor Day holiday.
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Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film | American Experience
From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Nature and wilderness photographer Michael Frye describes...
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero`s Life | American Experience
Former Commissioner of Major League Baseball Fay Vincent talks about one of the greatest sports heroes ever. Joe DiMaggio joined the New York Yankees in 1936 and quickly rose to become the star of baseball`s golden age.
Summer of Love | American Experience
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco`s Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing.
