Video: Topics: History
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PBS NewsHour | Never 'Misunderestimate' Word Power of the Presidency | PBS (#10543)
Jeffrey Brown talks to Paul Dickson, author of "Words From the White House." 08:19
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History Detectives | Bill of Sale, Cobb Powder Horn and the Star Spangled Banner | PBS (#1009)
Full Program: Eduardo investigates the story behind a Bill of Sale for a 17-year old “negro girl". 53:41
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History Detectives | Bill of Sale | PBS (#1009)
Eduardo investigates the life story behind a Bill of Sale for a 17-year old “negro girl.” 14:33
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History Detectives | Star Spangled Banner Manuscript | PBS (#1009)
Was this handwritten sheet of music central to deciding our national anthem? 14:06
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History Detectives | Cobb Powder Horn | PBS (#1009)
What is the story behind an engraved horn found in a Minnesota field? 11:52
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American Experience | Henry Ford and Thomas Edison | PBS (#101)
Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. The inventors remained friends their whole lives. 00:36
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American Experience | The Abolitionists | PBS (#101)
Full Program: To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart. 53:09
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American Experience | Henry Ford Gives Dance Lessons | PBS (#101)
Henry Ford hosted dance lessons in Dearborn twice a week to teach the old ways of dancing. 01:21
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Secrets of the Manor House | Secrets of Highclere Castle | PBS
Full Program: See how life was – and is – lived in Highclere Castle, the stand-in for Downton Abbey. 54:14
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PBS NewsHour | What Will History Books Have to Say About 2012? | PBS (#10529)
What Will History Books Have to Say About 2012? 07:53
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American Experience | The Abolitionists, Chapter 1 | PBS (#2501)
Premiering January 8, 9pm. To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart. 10:16
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? | PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on PBS January 8, 2013 at 9/8c. Learn more: www.pbs.org 02:51
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The Advisors of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's The Abolitionists | PBS
Historians John Stauffer and Lois Brown talk about the value of the abolitionists' story. See Stauffer and Brown in AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists", premiering January 8, 2013 at 9/8c... 02:58
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Silicon Valley promo | PBS
In 1957, before Apple and Google, before stock-option millionaires and billionaire venture capitalists, a group of eight brilliant young scientists defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company... 00:31
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American Experience | Silicon Valley Preview | PBS
Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age. 00:30






