Video: Topics: History: Modern
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on The Media | PBS (#2311)
Hank Thomas speaks about dressing well during the Freedom Rides. 01:54
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Israel Dresner on the Solid South | PBS (#2311)
Israel Dresner speaks about the Solid South. 01:13
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Inventing LA | Full Show | PBS
Full Program: Peabody Award Winner: Watch the saga of the most powerful family in Los Angeles history. 01:55:58
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Ken Burns/The National Parks | Extended Preview | PBS
Full Program: Filmmaker Ken Burns and his longtime colleague Dayton Duncan take us on a behind the scenes tour of their new PBS series, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA. The team explains why they chose... 26:49
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Secrets of the Dead | The World's Biggest Bomb | PBS (#1104)
Full Program: Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists engaged in a dangerous race to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb. 53:30
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Ken Burns | Prohibition: American Folly | PBS
Watch Prohibition...where average citizens became lawbreakers. 00:32
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History Detectives | Navajo Rug | PBS (#704)
Why would a weaver depart from tradition to make this rug? 18:09
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History Detectives | Tokyo Rose | PBS (#705)
Did this 1940s recording help convict the woman alleged to be a Japanese spy? 17:22
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History Detectives | Sideshow Babies | PBS (#704)
Was the owner of this cup once a four-pound sideshow exhibit? 16:50
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History Detectives | WPA Mural Studies | PBS (#709)
Are these unusual paintings part of the biggest job creation program in America's history? 16:52
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History Detectives | Amelia Earhart Plane | PBS (#706)
Was this piece of metal ripped from one of the most famous missing planes in history? 17:31
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History Detectives | Scottsboro Boys Stamp | PBS (#711)
Did a penny stamp help save the Scottsboro Boys from the electric chair? 17:48
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History Detectives | Seadrome | PBS (#710)
Did floating airports dot the Atlantic before modern air travel? 16:30
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History Detectives | Duke Ellington Plates | PBS (#805)
Are these plates the first edition of Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train"? 17:14
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History Detectives | Spybook | PBS (#804)
What does this little black book reveal about spying on the home front during World War I? 18:34
















