Dr. Alfred Crosby, author of Epidemic and Peace 1918: America's Forgotten Pandemic, spoke with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in 1997.

AMERICAN EXPERINCE interviewed Dr. Shirley Fannin in 1997. Currently, Fannin is a pediatrician specializing in epidemiology and infectious diseases in Los Angeles.

The CCC was President Roosevelt's answer to the environmental and economic challenges facing the country. Enlisting 250,000 workers in just two months, the CCC was an ambitious undertaking that brought several government agencies together in the effort.

Neil Maher on The Depression, President Roosevelt's motivation to create the CCC, opposition to the program, specific projects around the country, the birth of the conservation movement, and the legacy of the CCC.

This five-part series examines the political and cultural life of America during a tumultuous decade -- and draws parallels to our current age. Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929, the series looks at the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the construction of the Hoover Dam, the catastrophic drought that created the Dust Bowl and an unlikely hero: Seabiscuit.

A preview of The Kennedys, saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy. From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street, through John, Robert and Edward's successes and scandals, the family has left a storied political legacy.

Wounded Knee - Wounded Knee occupiers communicated their concerns via the press.

Most Native Americans do not live on reservations. This is largely due to the fact that the government thought one way to solve the Indian problem was to relocate Indians from the reservation to the bigger cities. Over 100,000 Indians were relocated in just 15 years.

What were Native American children expected to learn in schools run by the US government? The "de-Indianization" program failed, but the toll was devastating.

For many decades, Native American children, some as young as 5, were taken from their families and brought to government-run boarding schools.

Founded in Minneapolis, in 1968, by young urban Indians fed up with police harassment, the American Indian Movement fought for Native American rights.

In February 1973, Native American protesters occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, site of the last Indian Wars massacre.

President Andrew Jackson supported moving Native Americans west of the Mississippi. The Indian Removal Bill became the first major focus of his administration.

The effects of 1830s policies on Native Americans are still felt today.

In 1838, the Cherokee nation is forced to walk more than 1000 miles from Georgia to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). The Trail of Tears march caused the death of more than 4,000 Cherokee people.

On the morning of May 26th, 1838, the United States began removing Cherokee from their homes in Georgia. Everything that wasn't actually on the person now belonged to the state, and the Cherokee were forced out onto the roads with whatever they had on their backs.

Ratified by the US in 1836, the treaty of New Echota required the Cherokee to move out west. They were told they had two years to remove themselves peacefully.

In 1832 the United States Supreme Court recognized Cherokee sovereignty, thanks to the hard work done by leaders such as John Ridge.

Sequoyah was devoted to enabling the Cherokee people to have the power that comes with a written language, a power held by the white man. Though he couldn't read or write in another language, Sequoyah invented an efficient language for the Cherokee.

White Americans offered Native Americans equality -- if they became more like them. Missionary organizations went into the Indian nations to teach Indians how to be anglo-Americans.