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At the turn of the 20th century, government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley took on the nation's powerful food manufacturers to banish new and untested chemicals in foods that were threatening consumers'...

In the early 20th century the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest. There was radioactive radium in health tonics thallium in depilatory creams*and morphine in...

Based in part on David Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story this one-hour film chronicles a decades-long crusade fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and...

American Experience: The President's Collection - Production Year: 2017 - Ten 20th century biographies offer an intimate and compelling look at the men who have defined and re-defined the modern...

Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the...

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by the company's president, Alexander Cassatt, successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and...

Riveted: The History of Jeans is the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. Worn by everyone from presidents to supermodels, farmers to rock stars, they're more than just a...

Nearly a century and a half after his death Robert E. Lee the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War remains a source of fascination and for some veneration. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE...

Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the isolated mountaintop home of Randy and Vicki Weaver and their three children on Ruby Ridge in Northern...

For generations of us, it was where we first learned about capitalism-and Atlantic City-and the board game Monopoly remains as enduringly popular as ever. However, the backstory of how the game was...

For 191 years, the Supreme Court of the United States was populated only by men. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice in 1981, the announcement...

In March 1931, two white women stepped off a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama, with a shocking accusation of gang rape, by nine black teenagers on the train. So began the Scottsboro case, one of the...