Monday, February 22

12:00pm Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

This film takes viewers on an epic journey back into one of the most captivating and important periods of world history -- a centuries-long period when Muslims, Christians and Jews inhabited the same far corner of Western Europe and thrived. The lemon tree, the water wheel and Aristotle's lost philosophy all arrived in Europe through Islamic Spain, as did algebra and the beginnings of modern medicine, science and poetry. Here were the very roots of the European Renaissance. But the fragile union dissipated, destroyed by greed, fear and intolerance.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/cities-of-light-the-rise-and-fall-of-islamic-spain-kuyuaz/ (Passport Required)

Tuesday, February 23

12:00pm Civilizations “Renaissances”

Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Programs reveal the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination across cultures. Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/renaissances-ufzdl3/ (Passport Required)

1:00pm Secrets of the Dead “Leonardo, the Man Who Saved Science”

Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks - some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat?

Show is not available online, but you can watch a preview here: https://www.pbs.org/video/secrets-dead-leonardo-man-who-saved-science-preview/

Wednesday, February 24

12:00pm History of Christianity “The Reformation: The Individual Before God”

The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation and reveals how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/a-history-of-christianity-episode-4-syp2ab/ (Passport Required)

1:00pm Rick Steves Special “Luther and the Reformation”

In 1510, a young monk from Germany named Martin Luther walked 700 miles to Rome on a pilgrimage. He returned home disillusioned, and in 1517, raised 95 difficult theological questions at the university where he taught - and kicked off what became the Protestant Reformation. By questioning corrupt Catholic Church practices, Luther unleashed a torrent of public frustration and undercut the power of the Church. Travel expert Rick Steves sheds light on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by visiting key sites (including Erfurt, Wittenberg and Rome), and explores the complicated political world of 16th-century Europe, from indulgences to iconoclasts, and from the printing press to the Counter-Reformation. It's a story of power, rebellion and faith that precipitated change in Europe and Christianity forever, and contributed to the birth of our modern world.

Watch the show here: https://www.pbs.org/video/luther-and-the-reformation-bf7smc/

Thursday, February 25

12:00pm Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 1

Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for this exploration of the transformative years following the Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction and revolutionary social change.

Watch the show here:

Part 1: https://www.pbs.org/video/reconstruction-part-1-hour-1-n0g1em/ (Passport Required)

Part 2: https://www.pbs.org/video/reconstruction-part-1-hour-2-lpuaph/ (Passport Required)

Friday, February 26

Friday, February 26 12:00pm Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Part 2

Explore the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction's legal and political legacy, and see how African Americans fought back using artistic expression to put forward a "New Negro" for a new century.

Watch the show here:

Part 1: https://www.pbs.org/video/reconstruction-part-2-hour-1-ektoum/ (Passport Required)

Part 2: https://www.pbs.org/video/reconstruction-part-2-hour-2-tvskio/ (Passport Required)