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- Follow the National Portrait Gallery's Obama portraits as they travel to prominent art museums in five U. S. cities, offering education, representation and hope to millions of Americans.
- Join Ed Ayers - award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory - as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America's past.
- How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Confederate leaders stood for more than a century, and why they fell.
- A documentary film about lynching in the American South.
- At Virginia's Fort Monroe, we discover a remarkable place: the spot where slavery began in British North America, and the site where it began to unravel during the Civil War. From one of the newest National Park Service sites to a historically-minded brewery and more, we learn from a diverse cast of people engaging visitors with defining moments in our national past.
- On March 25, 1911, New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, and 146 workers - nearly all young women, many of them teenage immigrants - perished. We visit the building and learn how public outcry inspired workplace safety laws that revolutionized industrial work nationwide. Descendants and activists show us how that work reverberates today.
- Texas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the land that followed 10,000 years of Native American history there. From Spanish missions, to a French shipwreck, to a former sugarcane plantation, historians visit to ask: How did Texas become Texas?
- After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military and FBI arrested more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Ed visits Manzanar, once an incarceration camp and now a National Park Service site, to meet those keeping the memory alive.
- What does "freedom" mean to those outside the halls of power - and what did it mean during the American Revolution? Host Edward Ayers visits sites in Boston and Philadelphia to put that question to curators, museum educators, a playwright, and a tribal preservation officer. He learns about the ways in which women, Native Americans, and African Americans made the words of the Revolution come true in their own lives.
- For a week in 1919, long-simmering tensions between white and black residents in Chicago erupted in violence. Its aftermath shaped laws and housing for generations. Host Edward Ayers visits Chicago during the 100th anniversary of what became known as the "Red Summer." He meets a poet, performance artist, museum educator, and young people who are creating living memorials to a long-ignored past.
- In the Utah desert in 1869, a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. On the 150th anniversary, Ed speaks with descendants and educators to learn about this triumph-and its human and environmental costs.
- In the rural district of Prince Edward County, Virginia, young people staged a strike in 1951 - an effort that culminated in the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregated schools. Host Edward Ayers meets participants of that strike, as well as a museum educator, author, and librarian. He learns about the resilience of local black families when segregationists closed public schools for five years.
- A new pandemic short explores one city's experience reopening too soon during the 1918 flu epidemic.
- Scientists are racing to develop potential vaccines. Labs are preparing for widespread testing. Families are desperate for an answer to a public health crisis. This was the story in 1954, when a new vaccine to prevent polio persuaded the parents of more than a million children to join a nationwide trial. Ed Ayers, host of The Future of America's Past, learns from a polio survivor, an epidemiologist, and a scholar about the successes and challenges of distributing a new vaccine.