American Experience
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American Experience

1988

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The Kennedys (1): The Father, 1900-61
No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and perso…
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The Kennedys (2): The Sons, 1961-80
No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and perso…
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The Donner Party
Of all the 19th century pioneer stories, none exerts so powerful a hold on the American imagination as this, during the …
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Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
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George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
He was bumbling, yet ambitious. He volunteered to serve his country, but insisted on being reimbursed for expenses. He w…
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Last Stand at Little Big Horn
In 1876, when the U.S. Army planned its biggest Indian campaign yet against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, General George…
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If You Knew Sousa
John Phillip Sousa became America's favorite bandmaster, but band music wasn't Sousa's only passion. He was the first to…
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Simple Justice
Thirty years after the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling, lawyer Charles Hamilton took over Howard University'…
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Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
When he died in 1931 in a plane crash on his way to Hollywood to sign a film contract, the President called it a "nation…
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Sit Down And Fight
In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of the American labor mov…
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the unregulated use of pe…
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Goin' Back to T-Town
In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political indepe…
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Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 191…