Michelle Ferrari

Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest—from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country’s most popul...

27 de jan. de 2002

The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart...

09 de fev. de 2016

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When 'Silent Spring' was publish...

24 de jan. de 2017

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities ...

31 de jul. de 1998

In 1918, when New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris ...

07 de jan. de 2014

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

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.

24 de jan. de 2011

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the eugenics movement and its long history in the United States, from its beginnings in the study of heredi...

16 de out. de 2018

In the wake of hurricane Katrina, as Americans begin a dialogue about the future of one of the nation's most distinctive cities, AMERICAN EXPERIENC...

12 de fev. de 2007

By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in ...

20 de jan. de 2015

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

An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

29 de out. de 2013

He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait; though he didn't look the part, Seabi...

21 de abr. de 2003

When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor as the Supreme Court’s first female justice in 1981, the announcement dominated the news. Time Mag...

13 de set. de 2021

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

03 de mai. de 2010

Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well...

14 de nov. de 2005

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by Ameri...