Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
Unaccompanied by narration or interviews, contemporary imagery drawn from science fiction films, gov...
American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by R...