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.

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...

A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...