Episodes
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10 Modern Marvels That Changed America
S2 E3 - 54m 56s
A whirlwind tour of 10 engineering feats that made our civilization possible: from the Erie Canal and Eads Bridge, to the Holland Tunnel and Hoover Dam. Find out which 10 modern marvels made the list.
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10 Monuments That Changed America
S2 E2 - 54m 56s
A whirlwind tour of 10 monuments that mark key moments in American history: from the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and the AIDS Quilt. Find out which 10 monuments made the list.
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10 Streets That Changed America
S2 E1 - 54m 56s
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.
Extras + Features
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Episode 2 Preview | 10 Monuments That Changed America
S2 E2 - 32s
A whirlwind tour of 10 monuments that mark key moments in American history: from the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and the AIDS Quilt. Find out which 10 monuments made the list.
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Web Extra: The Story Behind One AIDS Quilt Panel
S2 E2 - 2m 57s
AIDS Memorial Quilt volunteer Mark Ward talks about sewing a panel for his late partner, Dixon Tabla, who died in 1994, and how the NAMES project has evolved over the years.
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Web Extra: Honoring Crazy Horse
S2 E2 - 2m 45s
Lula Red Cloud, great-great-granddaughter of Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud, explains what she sees as the relevance of honoring Lakota warrior Crazy Horse with a larger-than-life monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Extended Trailer | Monuments
S2 E2 - 56s
A whirlwind tour of 10 monuments that mark key moments in American history: from the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and the AIDS Quilt. Find out which 10 monuments made the list.
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Web Extra: Inside the AIDS Quilt Warehouse
S2 E2 - 1m 29s
Peek inside the warehouse in Tucker, Georgia, where AIDS Memorial Quilt panels are stored and repaired in between nationwide exhibitions.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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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."
Schedule
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10 That Changed America
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
Engineering feats that made modern civilization possible, from the connection of roads and bridges to rail networks and a continent-wide freeway system. -
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10 That Changed America
Monday
Apr 1
1 Hour
Engineering feats that made modern civilization possible, from the connection of roads and bridges to rail networks and a continent-wide freeway system.
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