Video: Topics: History
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American Experience | Who is Frederick Douglass? | PBS (#2501)
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass joined the abolitionist movement. 01:56
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American Experience | Who is John Brown? | PBS (#2501)
John Brown believed that slavery was evil and martyred himself for the cause. 01:55
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American Experience | Who is Angelina Grimke? | PBS (#2501)
Angelina Grimke believed that slavery was a sin and a stain on the nation. 01:59
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American Experience | Who is William Lloyd Garrison? | PBS (#2501)
William Lloyd Garrison founded the influential abolitionist newspaper, "The Liberator." 02:59
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American Experience | Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? | PBS (#2501)
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the international bestseller, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 02:50
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First Freedom | First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty | PBS
Full Program: The adoption of separating church and state caused a shift in human history. 01:24:40
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American Experience | Fugitive Slave Act | PBS (#2501)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves full legal. 02:19
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American Experience | A Eulogy to the Movement | PBS (#2501)
Frederick Douglass offers a eulogy to the abolitionist movement at Garrison's funeral. 02:47
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American Experience | Garrison Introduces Douglass | PBS (#2501)
William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd in Nantucket and introduces Frederick Douglass. 02:16
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American Experience | Memorial Day | PBS
The origin of what we have come to know as Memorial Day. 02:55
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PBS NewsHour | The Last Days of Mes Aynak | PBS (#10518)
Documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman on Mes Aynak 02:42
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American Experience | Henry Ford | PBS (#2502)
He rose from obscurity to become the 20th century's most influential American innovator. 00:30
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American Experience | The Titans | PBS (#2500)
Biographies of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller -- the Titans of American industry. 00:30
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First Freedom | Religious Liberty | PBS
The Founders’ thinking evolved to embracing the religious freedom for all 04:24
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American Experience | Why We Made The Abolitionists | PBS (#2501)
A "transformative moment in history that stems from actions of ordinary individuals." 02:59
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