Extras
Klansville: Former North Carolina Klansman C.P. Ellis
Former North Carolina Klansman C.P. Ellis recalls his initiation.
Klansville: Former North Carolina Klansman C.P. Ellis
Klansville: The film Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK
The film Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK
Klansville: The film Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK
Personalizing the Past: Vegas Mushroom Cloud
A mushroom cloud seen from Las Vegas in 1958.
Personalizing the Past: Vegas Mushroom Cloud
Personalizing the Past: Jerome
Japanese Americans are released from the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
Personalizing the Past: Jerome
Personalizing the Past: Spring of Youth
A family sips from a “spring of youth” ca. 1947.
Personalizing the Past: Spring of Youth
President Franklin Roosevelt walks down a ramp from his private railroad car ca. 1938.
Personalizing the Past: FDR
Personalizing the Past: Celilo Falls
Native fishermen at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River.
Personalizing the Past: Celilo Falls
Personalizing the Past: Baltimore
Workers at the Baltimore Luggage Company making suitcases in 1957.
Personalizing the Past: Baltimore
From the Vault | Amelia Earhart
At age 23, Amelia Earhart took her first ride in an airplane and knew she had to fly.
From the Vault | Amelia Earhart
1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
The Hippie Tour
1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
Free Love & Free Stuff
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s.
Mind-Altering Drugs
MBTA’s Signal Shop, where workers maintain the equipment that keeps the trains on track.
Signal school
For Woodrow Wilson, the Great War was a chance for America to become a global citizen.
Woodrow Wilson: The Decider
After more than two years, thousands of American soldiers boarded ships bound for France.
The Great War: Chapter 1
American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels discusses the film and why we made it.