American Experience - PBS Podcast
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American Experience, television's most-watched history series, brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form our nation. Get stories to go in this podcast, or tune in to PBS Monday nights. American Experience is produced by WGBH Boston.
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Just a preview of the real show, March 07, 2008
Reviewer: KatieF
Very well done and educational but they leave you hanging by not presenting the entire show.
Trailers for PBS Documentaries, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: LOLDavid
from Los Angeles, California
These short podcasts are basically educational previews for the PBS series American Experience. There are some interesting ones but they are sort of like trailers for the actual documentaries that will air on PBS. It might be better if they put up more of the documentary rather than just a 4 minute intro into what the documentary is about. They're well done little podcasts though and might turn you on and tune you in to a PBS documentary you'd otherwise not see.
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The Presidents: The Conventions | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Aug 21, 2008
NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr and American University historian Allan Lichtman discuss the role of the party conventions in 2008.
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The Presidents: The Democratic Party and Expanding Opportunity | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson places Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of Democratic Party history.
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Riding the Rails | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America.
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The Presidents: American Conservativism | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Jun 27, 2008
Historian Dan Carter places John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign in the context of the American conservative movement.
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The Presidents: The Economy | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, May 29, 2008
MIT historian Meg Jacobs examines the impact of economic issues during election years.
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Truman | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, May 22, 2008
After eighty-two days as Vice-President, Harry Truman became the thirty-third President of the United States.
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FDR | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, May 8, 2008
In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis.
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The Presidents: First Ladies | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, May 2, 2008
John Jay College historian Blanche Wiesen Cook looks back at Eleanor Roosevelt and discusses the role of the First Lady.
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George H.W. Bush: At Kennebunkport | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, May 2, 2008
Filmmakers Austin Hoyt and Callie Taintor Wiser discuss the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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Roberto Clemente: Filmmaker Interview | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz discusses his biography of baseball's first Latino superstar.
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Roberto Clemente: Legacy | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
New York Yankees pitcher LaTroy Hawkins discusses the legacy of Roberto Clemente.
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Walt Whitman | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Apr 10, 2008
Contemporary writers and poets read excerpts from Walt Whitman's signature work, Leaves of Grass.
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The Presidents: Foreign Policy Leadership | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Mar 28, 2008
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.
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Minik, The Lost Eskimo | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Mar 27, 2008
When Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned from Greenland in 1897, he brought with him a seven-year-old boy named Minik.
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Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Aug 17, 2007
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.
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The Presidents: Critical Elections | American Experience
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Fri, Mar 07, 2008
Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin looks back at the 1968 presidential campaign and discusses the theory of "critical elections."
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The Fight | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Feb 28, 2008
In the 1930s, Joe Louis crossed boxing's color line to become the most famous and influential black person in America.
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Buffalo Bill | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Feb 22, 2008
As the American frontier was disappearing, William Cody transformed himself into a master showman named Buffalo Bill.
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Kit Carson | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Feb 15, 2008
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.
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The Presidents: Campaigning and the Primary System | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Feb 15, 2008
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.
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The Lobotomist | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Jan 17, 2008
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.
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Oswald's Ghost | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Tue, Jan 15, 2008
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.
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Grand Central Preview | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational FoundaAuthor: tion
Thu, Nov 15, 2007
Executive producer Mark Samels and filmmaker Michael Epstein discuss an upcoming American Experience film on New York's Grand Central Station.
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Daughter from Danang | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Nov 2, 2007
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.
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The Black Lions Remember Vietnam | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Oct 18, 2007
Meet the men of the Black Lions battalion. Forty years ago, they walked into a Viet Cong ambush.
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The Space Race | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Oct 04, 2007
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.
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World War II Memories | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Sep 20, 2007
World War II veterans describe the brutal conditions and deadly combat faced on the battlefronts of Europe and the Pacific.
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Chicago: City of the Century | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
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.
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Aug 2, 2007
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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Summer of Love | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Jun 21, 2007
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing.
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Apr 5, 2007
In tape recordings from the 1970s, Jim Jones describes his church, the Peoples Temple.
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New Orleans | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Feb 8, 2007
Filmmaker Stephen Ives details the challenges of making a documentary about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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The Living Weapon | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Mon, Jan 29, 2007
In early 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt received an alarming intelligence report: Germany and Japan were developing biological weapons for potential offensive use. In response, the U.S. and its allies rushed to develop their own germ warfare program.
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The Berlin Airlift | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Jan 18, 2007
A veteran pilot describes his experiences during the first battle of the Cold War and the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen.
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The Gold Rush | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Nov 2, 2006
Filmmaker Randall MacLowry brings to life the story of The Gold Rush in this American Experience film.
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The Great Fever | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Oct 26, 2006
Three physicians discuss the past and future of yellow fever, a disease that terrorized the United States for more than two hundred years, killing an estimated 100,000 in the nineteenth century alone.
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Eyes on the Prize | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Sep 29, 2006
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life.
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The Center Of The World: New York: A Documentary Film | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Fri, Sep 8, 2006
Carol Willis, the director of New York's Skyscraper Museum, reflects on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and plans for Ground Zero.
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A preview of New Orleans | American Experience
Author: American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Thu, Aug 31, 2006
Filmmaker Stephen Ives spent a year making a PBS documentary on the history of a unique A |