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22) The Sixties
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In the 1960s, Americans embraced the liberal promises and programs of two presidents: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kennedy, the East Coast blue blood, and Johnson, the rough-and-tumble Texan, could not have been more different. Yet each claimed the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt and sought to reshape the New Deal into their own world vision. JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great Society each had its triumphs and failures, but together...
25) Vietnam
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Vietnam was the longest war in America’s history and the most divisive in more than a century. Even today, long after the fall of Saigon, U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia remains misunderstood, misinterpreted and misrepresented. This feature-length documentary explores the genesis of America’s “quagmire” in the region—from the roots of Vietnamese nationalism, a century of French colonialism, and the First Indochina War, through America’s...
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World War I was sparked by nationalism and a complex web of political and military alliances. Soldiers in Europe fought the first modern war as industrial-age ingenuity sparked terror in the guise of warplanes, flamethrowers and chemical weapons. On the U.S. home front, women assumed new roles, the suffrage movement gained steam, and African Americans migrated to fill jobs in the North. Other changes were less positive, as racial tensions and the...
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1945 marked the end of World War II and the beginning of the power, politics and prosperity of the Post-War years. The presidency passed from Truman to Eisenhower and millions moved out of the city and onto the Interstate Highway System. The Cold War loomed, babies boomed, and the suburban family became the bull’s-eye for the mass market. Americans turned-on their televisions and tuned-in their car radios to hear the latest music fad: rock ‘n...
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A set of outstanding programs that re-create the human drama and spectacle that helped shape the American nation we know today. All 18 programs in this series are of feature-film caliber, and many star familiar actors. Written and filmed with the assistance of leading scholars, The Shaping of the American Nation will take your students to key historical locations and stimulate imagination and discussion about crucial people and events..
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At the turn of the century, America was a world economic and military power. Enriched by the fruits of the industrial revolution, it was a heady time for the wealthy class. For many others, life was fouled by poor working conditions, political corruption and social unrest. But slowly the populace began to demand change, equality and reform that led to the birth of the Progressive Era..
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In 1980, the fairies of the revolution bend over the cradle of the filmmaker."I was born in the middle of a dream." But the film takes a different turn: "What do I do with this heritage?" In this family drama is about the search for identity and policy. A cinematic journey that takes us from the Turkey in the 70s to Switzerland in the 21st century, passing exile, prison, counterfeit money, the fall of a hero, stray hippies and a revolutionary disco.A...
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The United States was a devastated union at the close of the Civil War. But within forty years the nation would rise from the ashes to become a unified world power. From controversial expansionism, through war in the Caribbean and Pacific, tumult in Asia and troubles at home, the country experienced radical change on a course to world leadership..
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It was called “Black Tuesday”: the day the bottom fell out of the stock market ushering in the Great Depression. Soon, soup kitchens and breadlines replaced the flappers and speakeasies of the Roaring Twenties. When the nation looked for leadership, they found it in the indelible character and progressive programs of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a bright and shining light in the darkness of despair..
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Communists and capitalists united in World War II to defeat the Axis powers. But following victory in 1945 the allies became adversaries. The world’s two great superpowers—the United States and Soviet Union—locked in a dramatic showdown over ideology, vision and freedom that would persist for five decades. Under the omnipresent threat of nuclear holocaust, the Cold War became the defining conflict of the twentieth century. The first of two parts,...
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare...
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