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American Experience, TVs most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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The fateful narrative of James Earl Ray who shot Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
Honolulu's tranquility was shattered when a Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape.
The mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead.
Story of a Wall Street tycoon who helped alter course of history in World War II.
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Preview
Watch a preview of The Chinese Exclusion Act.
PBS Previews: The Chinese Exclusion Act
Get an inside look at the making of The Chinese Exclusion Act, premiering May 29 at 8/7c.
The Hawaiian people had done everything in their power not to be annexed by the U.S.
A young Navy wife made a drastic rape allegation against five nonwhite Hawaiians in 1931.
First White Settlers in Hawai’i
The first white Americans to settle in the Islands arrived in the 1820s.
Fifty years after Dr. King's assassination, two long-time Memphis residents talk about the
The law school grad was asked to run the “Radical Division” at the Justice Department.
In 1919, A. Mitchell Palmer created the “Radical Division” within the Justice Department.
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