A compelling two-part portrait of Jimmy Carter examines the formative influence of his deeply held principles – a "moral ideology," as his former speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg describes it – on his life's work. Created by Adriana Bosch, wh…

The final installment of the biography of Jimmy Carter, titled "Hostage," chronicles his presidency and the years that followed. In 1977, Carter proclaimed human rights would be "a basic tenet of our foreign policy," yet the unfolding event…

This narrative traces the history of Chicago across three parts, drawing from the comprehensive account presented in Donald L. Miller’s "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America." The first part opens with the arri…

This narrative, drawn from historian Donald L. Miller's "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America," focuses on the 1870s and 1880s. During this period, Chicago’s ambitious business leaders found themselves in growi…

This three-part series draws upon the comprehensive history detailed in Donald L. Miller’s *City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America*. The final installment examines the city's simmering ethnic and class conflicts …

The 1955 murder of a fourteen-year-old Black boy in the Mississippi Delta—an event that arguably ignited the civil rights movement—remains a haunting memory. Mamie Till, the boy’s mother, describes him as “a sacrificial lamb.” Emmett Till, …

The contest between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads to build a transcontinental line across the United States concluded on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah. Narrator Michael Murphy describes the construction as "the e…

This is the story of an improbable collaboration: a white surgeon and a Black technician whose partnership resulted in a life-saving procedure for blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The key figures were Vivien Thomas, a man of limited formal educa…

The 1950s witnessed a pivotal development in reproductive history: the advent of the oral contraceptive, a change that profoundly shaped the social landscape of the following decade. This transformation was immense. As Sylvia Clark, who rem…

"Daughter from Danang," an Oscar-nominated documentary, recounts the poignant reunion of an Amerasian refugee with her Vietnamese family twenty-two years after the war’s conclusion. Heidi Bub, airlifted from Vietnam as the conflict ended, s…

*Seabiscuit* recounts the story of the stocky, unremarkable racehorse that captured the nation's attention during the late 1930s. The narrative draws on insights from Laura Hillenbrand, author of *Seabiscuit: An American Legend*, who chroni…

Scott Glenn’s *Bataan Rescue* recounts the courageous commando raid of January 1945, which liberated 513 survivors of the 1942 Bataan Death March, those held captive in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The rescuers detail…

Historian Simon Schama, author of *A History of Britain*, adopts the role of investigator, seeking, as he puts it, "not literal truth, but poetic truth," as he considers whether an innocent man was executed for a crime that occurred 154 yea…