Video: Topics: History
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History Detectives | Valley Forge Map | PBS
Did George Washington hold this map during the critical winter at Valley Forge? 13:04
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History Detectives | Early Transistor Radio | PBS
A Tucson man wonders if he has one of the first transistor radios ever made. 12:34
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History Detectives | Colored Heroes, Valley Forge Map and a Transistor Radio | PBS (#1007)
Full Program: U.S. Senator Charles Schumer helps Tukufu track down the true story behind a WWI poster. 52:31
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American Masters | Film: The Day Carl Sandburg Died | PBS
Full Program: The life and times of American Master Carl Sandburg. 01:25:41
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PBS NewsHour | Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace | PBS (#10447)
Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations 08:22
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American Experience | Death and the Civil War, Chapter 1 | PBS
Full Program: Premiering Sept 18, 8pm. How the US dealt with the huge number of dead in the Civil War. 11:22
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VOCES ON PBS | Unfinished Spaces | PBS (#103)
In 1961, in the heady first days of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked three visionary architects to build the Cuban National Arts Schools on what had been the golf course of a country club.... 00:31
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American Experience | Ric Burns on making Death & the Civil War | PBS
Producer Ric Burns discusses the intricacies of making Death and the Civil War. 02:59
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American Experience | Why we made Death & the Civil War | PBS
Executive Producer Mark Samels describes why no other TV series would tackle this subject. 02:59
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The Open Mind | The Great Emancipator | PBS
Full Program: Historian/author Harold Holzer discusses his book on President Lincoln. 28:07
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History Detectives | World War II Patch: Bird of War | PBS (#1004)
Did these two patches with an evocative bird symbol belong to a World War II unit? 14:43
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History Detectives | Lincoln Oath | PBS (#1004)
A presidential signature reveals a key Civil War practice history textbooks often overlook 09:46
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History Detectives | Bird of War, Lincoln Oath and War Spoils of a Peace Chief | PBS (#1004)
Full Program: We investigate WWII era patches with an evocative symbol of a bird dropping a bomb. 53:21
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History Detectives | War Spoils of a Peace Chief | PBS (#1004)
Did this neckpiece and these leggings once belong to Peace Chief Black Kettle? 14:35
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History Detectives | Marshall House Flag | PBS (#1004)
Can Gwen connect a swatch of red fabric to a pivotal moment in U.S. Civil War history? 12:16




