American Experience (1988)

No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy, the Ke…

No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy, the Ke…

Of all the 19th century pioneer stories, none exerts so powerful a hold on the American imagination as this, during the worst winter ever r…

An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front. In April 1945,…

He was bumbling, yet ambitious. He volunteered to serve his country, but insisted on being reimbursed for expenses. He was the most famous…

In 1876, when the U.S. Army planned its biggest Indian campaign yet against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, General George Custer led the cha…

John Phillip Sousa became America's favorite bandmaster, but band music wasn't Sousa's only passion. He was the first to bring the classics…

Thirty years after the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling, lawyer Charles Hamilton took over Howard University's rundown, segregat…

When he died in 1931 in a plane crash on his way to Hollywood to sign a film contract, the President called it a "national loss." The funer…

In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of the American labor movement. By sitting d…

She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbic…

In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political independence. Burned to t…

When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 1911, he became a medi…