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America's Monuments | The Longest Bridge
Season 30 Episode 4
In the early 1920s, San Francisco was a picturesque city on a narrow, isolated peninsula. Known for its scenic, natural beauty, it had the potential …
5 years, 2 months ago
America's Monuments | Four Faces
Season 30 Episode 3
In 1927, workers began blasting granite rock off a towering cliff in South Dakota’s Black Hills. It was the start of an arduous 14-year struggle to c…
5 years, 2 months ago
America’s Monuments | A Passage Through Panama
Season 30 Episode 2
For centuries, sailors and merchants dreamed of finding a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the narrow isthmus of Central Americ…
5 years, 2 months ago
America’s Monuments | The Colossus of New York Harbor
Season 30 Episode 1
It’s perhaps the most iconic of American monuments -- the Statue of Liberty. A towering 305-foot sculpture of copper and steel that is synonymous wit…
5 years, 2 months ago
Great Chicago Fire | Out of the Ashes
Season 29 Episode 4
After the 1871 fire destroyed a third of their city, Chicagoans wanted to do more than rebuild. They wanted to envision a new kind of American city. …
5 years, 3 months ago
Great Chicago Fire | The Great Rebuilding
Season 29 Episode 3
As dawn broke on October 10, 1871, the dazed survivors of the Great Chicago Fire stumbled through their burned and battered city. A 30-hour inferno h…
5 years, 3 months ago
Great Chicago Fire | Fleeing the Flames
Season 29 Episode 2
Just before midnight on October 8, 1871, the inferno that had ravaged Chicago’s West Side leapt the Chicago River. A wall of flames surged toward dow…
5 years, 3 months ago
Great Chicago Fire | We Are Going to Have a Burn
Season 29 Episode 1
In 1871, Chicago was the fastest growing city in the world. Built almost entirely of wood, it was also a tinderbox. That October, a severe drought ra…
5 years, 3 months ago
Presidential Inaugurations: Traditions, Crisis, and Unity
Season 28 Episode 1
As America prepares to swear in a new president, we’ll look back to the inaugurations of the past. Jim Bendat, author of Democracy's Big Day: The Ina…
5 years, 4 months ago
Coal Wars | Charles Keeney on Restoring His Great Grandfather’s Legacy
Season 27 Episode 5
Once the coal miners lost the Battle of Blair Mountain, the story of their uprising was suppressed, and their leader Frank Keeney eventually faded in…
5 years, 4 months ago