Video: Topics: History
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American Experience | Harriet Beecher Stowe Witnesses a Slave Auction | PBS (#2501)
On a day trip to Kentucky in 1832, Harriet Beecher happened upon her first slave auction. 02:21
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American Experience | Frederick Douglass Reacts | PBS (#2501)
In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission. 02:59
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American Experience | Burning Abolitionist Literature | PBS (#2501)
The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 triggered a wave of repression. 01:58
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American Experience | Angelina Grimke Rebels | PBS (#2501)
Despite living in luxury, Angelina Grimke believed slavery was a sin of God. 02:59
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American Experience | Angelina Leaves Home | PBS (#2501)
In 1829, Angelina Grimke left Charleston for an uncertain future in the North. 01:37
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History Detectives | Our Colored Heroes | PBS
Tukufu and fellow host Elyse Luray track down the true story behind a WWI poster. 14:44
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History Detectives | Valley Forge Map | PBS
Did George Washington hold this map during the critical winter at Valley Forge? 13:04
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History Detectives | Early Transistor Radio | PBS
A Tucson man wonders if he has one of the first transistor radios ever made. 12:34
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History Detectives | Colored Heroes, Valley Forge Map and a Transistor Radio | PBS (#1007)
Full Program: U.S. Senator Charles Schumer helps Tukufu track down the true story behind a WWI poster. 52:31
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American Masters | Film: The Day Carl Sandburg Died | PBS
Full Program: The life and times of American Master Carl Sandburg. 01:25:41
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PBS NewsHour | Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace | PBS (#10447)
Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations 08:22
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American Experience | Death and the Civil War, Chapter 1 | PBS
Full Program: Premiering Sept 18, 8pm. How the US dealt with the huge number of dead in the Civil War. 11:22
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VOCES ON PBS | Unfinished Spaces | PBS (#103)
In 1961, in the heady first days of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked three visionary architects to build the Cuban National Arts Schools on what had been the golf course of a country club.... 00:31
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American Experience | Ric Burns on making Death & the Civil War | PBS
Producer Ric Burns discusses the intricacies of making Death and the Civil War. 02:59
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American Experience | Why we made Death & the Civil War | PBS
Executive Producer Mark Samels describes why no other TV series would tackle this subject. 02:59




