October 11, 2010 • 55m
A New Adam explores the origins of Christian religion in America and examines how the New World changed the faiths that the settle...Read more
October 12, 2010 • 55m
During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers.
October 13, 2010 • 55m
Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused ...Read more
January 3, 2011 • 55m
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneratio...Read more
January 17, 2011 • 55m
From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a...Read more
January 24, 2011 • 55m
In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where the Fren...Read more
January 31, 2011 • 55m
In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to c...Read more
February 28, 2011 • 55m
It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fa...Read more
April 11, 2011 • 55m
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a docume...Read more
April 25, 2011 • 55m
In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turni...Read more
May 9, 2011 • 55m
The story of the American civil rights movement told through the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, ...Read more
May 16, 2011 • 55m
They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face wit...Read more