At thirty-nine, afflicted by polio; at fifty, President. This is the story of a resolute man who guided the United States through two defining crises: the Depression and World War II. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as president for longer…

This installment examines Franklin D. Roosevelt’s courageous battle with polio. Supported by his wife, Eleanor, Roosevelt secured the Democratic nomination for president and assumed office at the onset of the Great Depression. Addressing a …

Episode three examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s leadership of the United States through the Great Depression. A nation grappling with hardship looked to the scion of considerable fortune for a series of social initiatives, collectively k…

The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt culminates in the years of his presidency (1932 until his death in 1945), detailing his response to the Great Depression and his crucial alliance with Winston Churchill during World War II.

For four decades, a novel faith known as spiritualism gripped the nation with an intensity unseen before. Prominent figures like Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, and members of Congress, alongside scientists, engaged in fer…

A largely forgotten chapter in film history details a vibrant, self-sufficient Black film industry that flourished beyond Hollywood's reach. From 1910 to 1940, this industry churned out nearly five hundred feature films specifically for Afr…

The Battle of the Bulge, a pivotal moment in World War II, unfolded when the German army launched a significant and unexpected counteroffensive against American forces. The assault initially achieved considerable success, shattering section…

Beginning with Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s stirring address at Seneca Falls in 1848 and extending to the final push for the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, this is a chronicle of the internal conflicts, shifting partnerships, broken trusts, setb…

Beginning with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's stirring address at Seneca Falls in 1848 and extending to the final campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, this is the story of a movement forged in conflict: of factions forming and dissolvin…

The westward expansion of the United States, a six-hour chronicle of loss and conquest, unfolded from the first echoes of the 1848 Gold Rush to the final, desperate moments of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893. It was a period when th…

The westward expansion of the United States, a six-hour chronicle of loss and conquest, unfolded from the first echoes of the Gold Rush in 1848 to the final, tragic moments at Wounded Knee in 1893. It was then that the West was settled, sub…

The westward expansion of the United States, a six-hour chronicle of loss and conquest, unfolded from the first echoes of the Gold Rush in 1848 to the final, desperate moments of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893. It was a period when…

The westward expansion of the United States, a six-hour chronicle spanning from the Gold Rush of 1848 to the final echoes of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, details the settlement, subjugation, exploitation, and ultimate incorporat…