Extras

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

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

Personalizing the Past: Vegas Mushroom Cloud
A mushroom cloud seen from Las Vegas in 1958.
Personalizing the Past: Vegas Mushroom Cloud

Personalizing the Past: Spring of Youth
A family sips from a “spring of youth” ca. 1947.
Personalizing the Past: Spring of Youth

Personalizing the Past: Jerome
Japanese Americans are released from the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
Personalizing the Past: Jerome

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

For Woodrow Wilson, the Great War was a chance for America to become a global citizen.
Woodrow Wilson: The Decider

American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels discusses the film and why we made it.