Cameo George

Uma droga barata e poderosa surge durante uma recessão, causando pânico moral alimentado pelo racismo. Explore a complexa história do crack nos ano...

11 de jan. de 2021

America’s favorite board game, Monopoly, is a love letter to unbridled capitalism and the impulses that make our free-market society tick. Contrary...

20 de fev. de 2023

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they c...

03 de jan. de 2023

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...

31 de ago. de 2022

Chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes worked for nearly 50 years to harness the power of the sun, designing and building the world's first su...

04 de abr. de 2023

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 d...

30 de mar. de 2021

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy...

11 de jan. de 2021

Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ "Citizen Kane." Wielding unprecedented po...

27 de set. de 2021

Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when...

19 de abr. de 2021

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monume...

15 de fev. de 2021

The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional a...

01 de out. de 2024

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were “rioting” in ...

21 de nov. de 2023

The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d...

21 de out. de 2024

Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, ea...

20 de fev. de 2024

Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he buil...

17 de mai. de 2021

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She ...

17 de jan. de 2023

The story of how the life-saving cervical cancer test became an ordinary part of women’s lives is as unusual and remarkable as the coalition of peo...

26 de mar. de 2024

Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment. At any given moment, half the people on...

07 de fev. de 2022

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, di...

30 de out. de 2023

Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians we...

14 de nov. de 2022

Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for th...

22 de abr. de 2024

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