Ten years after signing the Declaration of Independence, England wages a new war of unfair taxes and tariffs. Men like James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin are among the leaders in this new political battle.
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.
A riveting account of how America was invented. The story focuses on the people, ideas, and events that built America, covering 400 years of America's history.
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
A chronology of the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930's, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
At the close of the Civil War, two brothers who fought on opposite sides return home to Texas to discover that their sisters have been kidnapped by Rebel guerrillas who refuse to accept the defeat of the Confederacy.
The story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life.