10 Streets That Changed America
A whirlwind tour of 10 streets that change the way we get around: from Broadway in New York and Wilshire in Los Angeles, to the Boston Post Road and the Lincoln Highway. Find out which 10 streets made the list.
Previews + Extras
Woodward Was One of the First Streets to Adapt to the Car
S2 E1 - 6m 32s
Woodward Avenue in Detroit was one of the first streets to fully adapt to the automobile. It featured the first modern stoplight, the first mile-long stretch of road to be paved with concrete, and a modern, eight lane, “superhighway."
Extended Trailer | Streets
S2 E1 - 1m 9s
It’s a whirlwind tour of 10 streets that change the way we get around. 10 Streets that Changed America begins and ends on Broadway in New York. We’ll trace the street’s 400-year evolution: from Native American road, to Dutch trading route, to the home of America’s earliest public transit, to an electrically-lighted theater district known as the “Great White Way."
10 Streets That Changed America
S2 E1 - 1m 13s
A whirlwind tour of 10 streets that change the way we get around: from Broadway in New York and Wilshire in Los Angeles, to the Boston Post Road and the Lincoln Highway. Find out which 10 streets made the list!
Episode 1 Preview | 10 Streets That Changed America
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A whirlwind tour of 10 streets that change the way we get around: from Broadway in New York and Wilshire in Los Angeles, to the Boston Post Road and the Lincoln Highway. Find out which 10 streets made the list.
Web Extra: Segregation on Streetcars
S2 E1 - 3m 25s
Richard Campanella, professor of architecture and geography at Tulane University, talks about segregation in New Orleans, and how “separate but equal” accommodations came to be institutionalized.
Web Extra: Artifacts of the Boston Post Road
S2 E1 - 3m 33s
Many historic remnants -- including taverns, mile markers, and even Native American artifacts -- can still be found along today's Boston Post Road.
Web Extra: Van Buren vs. Horse
S2 E1 - 1m 16s
Road historian Dan Marriott recounts the story of a gaffe for the ages, in which former President Martin Van Buren fell from his horse-drawn carriage in Indiana, delighting supporters of the National Road. During his presidency, Van Buren had opposed appropriations for the highway.
Web Extra: How A Highway Paved the Way to Opportunities
S2 E1 - 3m 17s
When it opened in the early twentieth century, the Lincoln Highway gave women and people of color unprecedented freedom to travel on the open road.
Web Extra: The Fight to Remember Black Wall Street
S2 E1 - 4m 6s
Reconciliation Park is just one part of a larger effort to remember and learn from what transpired along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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