The Future of America's Past

Scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to places that define complex and evocative chapters in U.S. history.

Schedule

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    The Future of America's Past

    Red Chicago

    Tuesday
    Mar 28

    30 Minutes

    A visit to Chicago on the 100th anniversary of "Red Summer," when violence erupted after an attack on black teenagers in the summer of 1919.
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    Red Chicago

    Wednesday
    Mar 29

    30 Minutes

    A visit to Chicago on the 100th anniversary of "Red Summer," when violence erupted after an attack on black teenagers in the summer of 1919.
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    Freedom's Fortress

    Wednesday
    Mar 29

    30 Minutes

    Virginia's Fort Monroe, where slavery began in British North America and where it began to unravel during the Civil War, includes a new National Park Service site and historically-minded brewery.
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    The Fire of a Movement

    Wednesday
    Mar 29

    30 Minutes

    Public outcry inspires workplace safety laws following the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that killed 146 workers in New York.
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    Lines in the Sand

    Wednesday
    Mar 29

    30 Minutes

    From Spanish missions to a French shipwreck to a former sugarcane plantation, a look at how Texas became what it is.
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    A Grave Injustice

    Wednesday
    Mar 29

    30 Minutes

    A National Park Service site that once served as the largest desert camp that housed American citizens of Japanese ancestry following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    The Future of America's Past

    Saturday
    Apr 8

    30 Minutes

    Scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to places that define complex and evocative chapters in U.S. history.
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    The Future of America's Past

    Saturday
    Apr 8

    30 Minutes

    Scholar Ed Ayers takes viewers to places that define complex and evocative chapters in U.S. history.

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