Susan Bellows

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and Eas...

18 de fev. de 2004

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

A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Ron...

09 de jan. de 2018

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

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely e...

24 de mai. de 2022

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

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

The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manuf...

28 de jan. de 2020

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

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, jo...

10 de abr. de 2017

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an admini...

11 de nov. de 2013

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

This two-part, four-hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush features interviews with historians, journalists and several members of ...

04 de mai. de 2020

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

On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan...

13 de fev. de 2018

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

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one ...

06 de jan. de 2020

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on re...

19 de mai. de 2020

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead ...

21 de abr. de 2020

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

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept ac...

02 de mar. de 1998

20 de out. de 2023

Lyrical and meditative, The Amish answers many questions Americans have about this insistently insular religious community, whose intense faith and...

28 de fev. de 2012

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

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

A 7-part series telling dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From the producers ...

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...

In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by American policy makers, media and the public. This se...