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J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Humanizing History with David McCullough
Season 11 Episode 7
Pulitzer Prize winner. National Book Award winner. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Today David McCullough, one of America’s greatest living …
7 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Citizens Resistance
Season 11 Episode 6
On March 8, 1971, seven ordinary Americans broke into a poorly guarded FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania. They called themselves the Citizen…
7 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Black Bag Job
Season 11 Episode 5
Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI carried out more than 2,000 top secret spying operations aimed at American citizens. Their target? The so-called Fifth…
7 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Controlling the Message
Season 11 Episode 4
The rise of fascism and World War II shifted the FBI’s focus in the 1940s from fighting midwestern outlaws to catching Communists. To Hoover and the …
7 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - The Bobby Sox Bandit Queen
Season 11 Episode 3
During the mid-1930s, the FBI’s public relations department had effectively changed the image of its agents from accountants into action heroes; and …
7 years ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Giant Among G-Men
Season 11 Episode 2
J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI when he was just 29 years old. His orders? Clean up the Bureau. At first, he proved to be a brilliant and …
7 years, 1 month ago
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - The Department of Easy Virtues
Season 11 Episode 1
By the turn of the century, radical anarchists were becoming a growing -- and volatile -- political movement. As shifting workplace conditions exploi…
7 years, 1 month ago
America's Anthem
Season 10 Episode 7
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.” That’s the opening line of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” written by Julie Ward Howe in…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Great Depression - Justice and Infamy
Season 10 Episode 6
As legal challenges to his New Deal programs mounted, President Roosevelt and his attorney general devised dramatic reforms to the Supreme Court’s st…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Great Depression - Progress and Pushback
Season 10 Episode 5
After two of President Roosevelt’s closest advisors competed to create a new federal jobs program, the White House launched one of Roosevelt's keysto…
7 years, 2 months ago