Travel the Panama Canal
Ride through the Panama canal with this time-lapse video of the locks in action.
Seabiscuit - Preview
This film about Seabiscuit's unlikely career illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing. 9/26/2011
Seabiscuit Preview
Seabiscuit was dung-colored and boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten, a straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, he was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history.
Dinosaur Wars Preview
The story of two Americans who laid the foundation for modern paleontology and whose rivalry nearly destroyed them both.
Historian Joseph Glatthaar
Historian Joseph Glatthaar discusses African American regiments and the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Interview with Producer David Grubin
An interview with David Grubin, producer of Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.
Historian Margaret Washington
Historian Margaret Washington discusses antebellum women's rights, partisanship and the press, and wage slavery for the film Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.
Interview with Cinematographer James Callanan
A behind the scenes interview with James Callanan, cinematographer for the documentary Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.
Historian Ira Berlin
Historian Ira Berlin discusses the underground railroad and African Americans in both the North and the South on the eve of the Civil War.
Historian Elizabeth Young
Historian Elizabeth Young discusses women and literature in the period before the Civil War.
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Preview
The marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln was long and turbulent, and knew many trials, including the loss of two children. Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided weaves together the lives of the two Lincolns, drawing us into their long-vanished world.
Alicia Skeeter: James Farmer Quotes
Student Freedom Rider Alicia Skeeter talks with her peers about the words of civil rights leader James Farmer.
Day 10: Charles Reed Jr.
Student Freedom Rider Charles Reed Jr. discusses his thoughts at the end of the ride, including his feelings upon riding into New Orleans and how the ride has changed his life.
War Letters: American Experience - Preview
Based on newly discovered personal correspondence from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War, War Letters brings to life vivid eyewitness accounts of famous battles, intimate declarations of love and longing, poignant letters penned just before the writer was killed, and heartbreaking "Dear John" letters from home.
Reconciliation in Anniston
Student Freedom Rider Erica Shekell's Day 5 video of a reconciliation between Freedom Rider Hank Thomas and the son of a clansmen who was on the scene of the 1961 Anniston firebombing.
Day 10: Jason McGaughey
2011 Student Freedom Rider Jason McGaughey says, "Together we can accomplish great things and tear down the walls of oppression. Together we can do it."
Day 10: Esther Kim
Student Freedom Rider Esther Kim sings and plays "We Shall Overcome" on the ukulele.
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer Preview
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.
Day 10: Tania Smith
Student Tania Smith interviews Earnest "Rip" Patton about the importance of music to the Freedom Riders.
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