Week of April 12
Monday, April 12
12:00pm The American Experience: The Vote Part 1
Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
In part 1: Learn about the first generation of leaders in the decades-long battle to win the vote for women. In the 19th century, a time women had few legal rights, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton galvanized thousands to demand equal citizenship.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-vote-part-1-3kph5d/
1:00pm The American Experience: The Vote Part 2
Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
In part 2: Explore the strategies used by a new generation of leaders determined to win the vote for women. Internal debates over radical tactics and the place of African American women in the movement shaped the battle in the crucial period from 1906-1915.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-vote-part-1-3kph5d/ (starts about 52 minutes in)
Tuesday, April 13
12:00pm The American Experience: The Vote Part 3
Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
In part 3: Discover how the pervasive racism of the time, particularly in the South, impacted women's fight for the vote during the final years of the campaign. Stung by a series of defeats in 1915, the suffragists concentrated on passing a federal amendment.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/part-2-the-vote-american-experience-o95eqq/
1:00pm The American Experience: The Vote Part 4
Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
In part 4: Meet the unsung women whose tireless work would finally ban discrimination at U.S. polls on the basis of sex. Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt advocated different strategies, but their combined efforts led to the amendment's passage in 1920.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/part-2-the-vote-american-experience-o95eqq/ (starts about 52 minutes in)
Wednesday, April 14
12:00pm Raising Ms. President
Women make up more than half of the American population and workforce. Yet, the United States only ranks 97th out of 190 countries when it comes to the number of women in elected office. According to research conducted by Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women & Politics Institute, and Richard Fox, political science department chair at Loyola Marymount University, women are less likely than men to run for office, and often consider themselves under-qualified to serve, despite their success in business and education. Filmmaker Kiley Lane explores why more women don't run for office. Through interviews with elected officials, scholars, high school students and leaders of two non-profits dedicated to raising the next generation of female leaders, the program investigates where political ambition begins and why society should encourage more women to lead.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs12.org/watch/documentaries/society-issues/raising-ms-president/
1:00pm Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation
Learn to identify fake news and evaluate the biases of legitimate news sources. This program provides viewers with tools to help discern fact from fiction in news reports. The program draws on common sense, expert opinions, and the universal standards of journalism to teach the media literacy skills needed to dissect breaking news, evaluate partisan content, and utilize critical thinking before adopting radical stances.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/fake-searching-for-truth-in-the-age-of-misinformation-jczifr/
Thursday, April 15
12:00pm The Future of America’s Past “Freedom’s Fortress” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
At Virginia's Fort Monroe, we discover a remarkable place: the spot where slavery began in British North America, and the site where it began to unravel during the Civil War. From one of the newest National
Park Service sites to a historically-minded brewery and more,we learn from a diverse cast of people engaging visitors with defining moments in our national past.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/freedoms-fortress-gev1py/
12:30pm The Future of America’s Past “The Fire of a Movement” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
On March 25, 1911, New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, and 146 workers - nearly all young women, many of them teenage immigrants - perished. We visit the building and learn how public outcry inspired workplace safety laws that revolutionized industrial work nationwide. Descendants and activists show us how that work reverberates today.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-fire-of-a-movement-wwhbxf/
1:00pm The Future of America’s Past “Lines in the Sand” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
Texas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the land that followed 10,000 years of Native American history there. From Spanish missions, to a French shipwreck, to a former sugarcane plantation, we visit to ask: How did Texas become Texas?
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/lines-in-the-sand-wicvcm/
1:30pm The Future of America’s Past “A Grave Injustice” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US military and the FBI arrested more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Taken to desert camps and confined for months or years, many of these Americans lost their homes and businesses. We visit the largest of these camps, now a National Park Service site - and meet those keeping memory alive.
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Friday, April 16
12:00pm The Future of America’s Past “The Revolutions” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
What does “freedom” mean to those outside the halls of power — and what did it mean during the era of the American Revolution? Host Ed Ayers visits sites in Boston and Philadelphia to put that question to curators, museum educators, a playwright, and a tribal preservation officer. He learns about the ways in which women, Native Americans, and African Americans made the words of the Revolution come true in their own lives. He discovers that some of the most inspiring stories of the Revolution spring from people who remained on its margins.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-revolutions-wtptx2/
12:30pm The Future of America’s Past “Red Chicago” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
On a hot day in 1919, an attack on African American teenagers near a Chicago beach stoked long-standing tensions between white and black residents. Violence erupted — and its aftermath shaped laws, housing, and opportunities for African American citizens for generations. Host Ed Ayers visits Chicago during the 100th anniversary of what became known as “Red Summer.” He meets a poet, performance artist, museum educator, and young people who are creating living memorials to a long-ignored past.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/red-chicago-ma2ihu/
1:00pm The Future of America’s Past “Transcontinental” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
High in the Utah desert in 1869, two locomotives met and a golden spike was hammered into new rails: the first transcontinental railroad was complete. To mark the 150th anniversary of this feat, Utah organized a statewide effort called “Spike 150,” with exhibitions and events engaging a diverse public. Host Ed Ayers visits to learn about the railroad’s promise of prosperity. He considers the human costs, with a descendant of a Chinese American railroad builder and a Native American tribal leader. And he discovers how the environment and photography played key roles on the rails.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/transcontinental-fp8nwh/
1:30pm The Future of America’s Past “School Interrupted” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Notable scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex and evocative chapters in American history. Throughout the series, Ayers meets with public historians working to preserve the past, from National Park Service rangers to curators and community activists. He visits the sites - both familiar and unknown - of monumental events, and brings on guests who offer a range of perspectives.
The Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation began with a student strike in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Justice didn’t follow that ruling — white officials in Prince Edward County closed public schools rather than integrate. Host Ed Ayers learns about the drama that unfolded through conversations with two of the student strikers. He discovers how black women activists defied the school closures by starting grassroots schools, and he meets an author whose grandfather helped start a whites-only “segregation academy.” In a museum at the school that started it all, Ed talks with a descendant of strikers who inspires students today to take up the fight for justice.
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