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The Presidents: The Two-Party System and Political Participation | American

Mon, Nov 3 2008 Listen
Harvard historian Thomas Patterson looks at political participation and America's two-party system in presidential elections.

The Presidents: The Debates | American Experience

Wed, Sep 24 2008 Listen
George Mason University professor Rick Shenkman looks at presidential debates and their impact upon elections.

The Presidents: The Conventions | American Experience

Thu, Aug 21 2008 Listen
NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr and American University historian Allan Lichtman discuss the role of the party conventions in 2008.

The Presidents: The Democratic Party and Expanding Opportunity | American E

Thu, Jul 24 2008 Listen
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson places Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of Democratic Party history.

Riding the Rails | American Experience

Thu, Jul 10 2008 Listen
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America.

The Presidents: American Conservativism | American Experience

Fri, Jun 27 2008 Listen
Historian Dan Carter places John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of the American conservative movement.

The Presidents: The Economy | American Experience

Thu, May 29 2008 Listen
MIT historian Meg Jacobs examines the impact of economic issues during election years.

Truman | American Experience

Thu, May 22 2008 Listen
After eighty-two days as Vice-President, Harry Truman became the thirty-third President of the United States.

FDR | American Experience

Thu, May 8 2008 Listen
In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis.

The Presidents: First Ladies | American Experience

Fri, May 2 2008 Listen
John Jay College historian Blanche Wiesen Cook looks back at Eleanor Roosevelt and discusses the role of the First Lady.

Roberto Clemente: Legacy | American Experience

Thu, Apr 17 2008 Listen
New York Yankees pitcher LaTroy Hawkins discusses the legacy of Roberto Clemente.

Roberto Clemente: Filmmaker Interview | American Experience

Thu, Apr 17 2008 Listen
Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz discusses his biography of baseball's first Latino superstar.

Walt Whitman | American Experience

Thu, Apr 10 2008 Listen
Contemporary writers and poets read excerpts from Walt Whitman's signature work, Leaves of Grass.

The Presidents: Foreign Policy Leadership | American Experience

Fri, Mar 28 2008 Listen
International relations professor Ernest May from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and history professor Kristin Hoganson from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign describe foreign policy, presidential leadership, and elections.

Minik, The Lost Eskimo | American Experience

Thu, Mar 27 2008 Listen
When Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned from Greenland in 1897, he brought with him a seven-year-old boy named Minik.

The Presidents: Critical Elections | American Experience

Fri, Mar 7 2008 Listen
Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin looks back at the 1968 presidential campaign and discusses the theory of "critical elections."

The Fight | American Experience

Thu, Feb 28 2008 Listen
In the 1930s, Joe Louis crossed boxing's color line to become the most famous and influential black person in America.

Buffalo Bill | American Experience

Fri, Feb 22 2008 Listen
As the American frontier was disappearing, William Cody transformed himself into a master showman named Buffalo Bill.

Kit Carson | American Experience

Fri, Feb 15 2008 Listen
The legendary trapper, scout and soldier was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Kit Carson mastered it.

The Presidents: Campaigning and the Primary System | American Experience

Fri, Feb 15 2008 Listen
Boston University historian Bruce Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, looks back at the 1976 presidential campaign and finds parallels to the 2008 campaign.

The Lobotomist | American Experience

Thu, Jan 17 2008 Listen
Walter J. Freeman was an ambitious neurologist that invented a radical surgery to combat mental illness: the transorbital lobotomy. A patient of Doctor Freeman and families of lobotomy recipients describe how the procedure changed their lives.

Oswald's Ghost | American Experience

Tue, Jan 15 2008 Listen
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today. Filmmaker Robert Stone discusses his deconstruction of the assassination and how this single event forever changed the face of American culture.

Grand Central Preview | American Experience

Thu, Nov 15 2007 Listen
Executive producer Mark Samels and filmmaker Michael Epstein discuss an upcoming American Experience film on New York's Grand Central Station.

Daughter from Danang | American Experience

Fri, Nov 2 2007 Listen
In 1975, the U.S. sponsored Operation Babylift, evacuating war orphans from Vietnam. Author Aimee Phan talks about the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE program DAUGHTER FROM DANANG, which tells the story of a Babylift evacuee's troubled reunion with her Vietnamese birth mother.

The Black Lions Remember Vietnam | American Experience

Thu, Oct 18 2007 Listen
Meet the men of the Black Lions battalion. Forty years ago, they walked into a Viet Cong ambush.

The Space Race | American Experience

Thu, Oct 4 2007 Listen
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Roger Launius, curator at the National Air and Space Museum, describes Sputnik's impact on the Space Race.

World War II Memories | American Experience

Thu, Sep 20 2007 Listen
World War II veterans describe the brutal conditions and deadly combat faced on the battlefronts of Europe and the Pacific.

Chicago: City of the Century | American Experience

Thu, Aug 30 2007 Listen
In the mid nineteenth century Chicago emerged as an industrial metropolis, fueled by a diverse work force. Historian Dominic Pacyga describes Chicago's prominence in the national labor movement and its reaction to the Labor Day holiday. Their organized efforts were emblematic of a growing national labor movement that was marked by century's end with a new national holiday: Labor Day.

Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film | American Experience

Fri, Aug 17 2007 Listen
From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Nature and wilderness photographer Michael Frye describes following in Adams' footsteps, working in Yosemite.

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life | American Experience

Thu, Aug 2 2007 Listen
Former Commissioner of Major League Baseball Fay Vincent talks about one of the greatest sports heroes ever. Joe DiMaggio joined the New York Yankees in 1936 and quickly rose to become the star of baseball's golden age.

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