Video: Topics: History
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Antiques Roadshow | Junk in the Trunk 2 | PBS (#1621)
Full Program: JUNK IN THE TRUNK 2 features never-before-seen appraisals from ROADSHOW’S Season 16 tour. 53:10
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POV | A Perfect Candidate | PBS
Full Program: A modern-day parable about leadership in America and campaign culture in a cynical age. 01:43:55
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POV | Nostalgia for the Light | PBS (#2512)
Full Program: A remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity. 01:24:59
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Secrets of the Dead | The Man Who Saved the World: Full Episode | PBS (#1201)
Full Program: Watch the full episode of The Man Who Saved the World 53:10
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American Experience | Failed Protests | PBS (#101)
In the Spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail. 02:55
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American Experience | Tragedy Leads to Inspiration | PBS (#101)
An 1849 Cholera outbreak in Cincinnati claims Harriet Beecher Stowe's beloved son Charlie. 02:52
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American Experience | Abolitionist Allies Fall Out | PBS (#101)
After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, abolition takes on a new urgency for enslaved people 02:54
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American Experience | Uncle Tom's Cabin | PBS (#101)
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes the most popular and influential book in American history. 02:56
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American Experience | One Slave Makes a Difference | PBS (#101)
Escaped slave George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release affects the country. 01:26
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American Experience | Douglass Publishes "The North Star" | PBS (#101)
In Rochester, NY, Frederick Douglass publishes abolitionist newspaper "The North Star." 02:24
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American Experience | Garrison Gets Attacked | PBS
William Lloyd Garrison is attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston in 1835. 01:59
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American Experience | Two Abolitionists Unite | PBS (#101)
Abolitionist activists Angelina Grimke and Theodore Weld come together. 02:49
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American Experience | The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall | PBS (#101)
An anti-abolitionist mob threatens a meeting and burns Pennsylvania Hall to the ground. 01:29
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American Experience | Frederick Douglass Finds Freedom | PBS (#101)
Frederick Douglass and his wife settle in New Bedford, MA where he does hard manual labor. 00:49
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American Experience | Douglass and Garrison Meet | PBS (#101)
In September of 1838, Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket. 02:37



