National Endowment for the Humanities.
Publisher
National Endowment for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"My History" offers all of us a way to explore family history as we discover how our own family stories connect to the history of our nation.
Many Americans are historians without being aware of it. Each of us has stories we pass, like family heirlooms, from generation to generation. These stories define us and connect us to distant places and significant events. You can start your own family history with a single old photo, letter, or a family...
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This biography of Ulysses S. Grant paints a nuanced portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders. The greatest hero of the Civil War, Grant was a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to a rank held previously only by George Washington. However, the strength of the Confederate resistance forced Grant into a hard war that destroyed the South and led to his being labeled "a butcher." Propelled into the White House by his battlefield...
3) The pilgrims
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Commemorated each year at Thanksgiving, no chapter in American history has been more clouded in myth, legend and venerable cliche than the story of the Pilgrims.