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Depressions 1929 United States Jazz History and criticism Management Study and teaching Moyers, Bill D United States History 1901-1953 United States History 1945-1953 United States History 1953-1961 United States History Study and teaching United States Politics and government 1901-1953 World War, 1939-1945Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In this program, Bill Moyers traces the evolution of three instruments that enabled combatants to mass-produce death-the machine gun, the submarine, and...
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Summary: Throughout the 1930s and 40s, John L. Lewis was the most powerful figure in the U.S. labor movement. This episode of A&E Classroom examines the president of the United Mine Workers of America, an independent and strong-willed leader who secured rights and benefits for the miners. A major force behind the founding of the CIO, Lewis also played a role in Franklin D. Roosevelt's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds panicked Americans across the country. In the U.K., Neville Chamberlain delivered his famous speech, Peace in Our Times.
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Summary: Looks at FDR's famed 'Nothing to Fear' speech and the 1933 repeal of Prohibition.
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Summary: 1939 brought momentous events that changed the course of history. Year by Year looks at the beginnings of World War II and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pledge of neutrality.
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Summary: Examines a major 1931 earthquake in Nicaragua.
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Summary: Looks at the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. Bruno Hauptmann was subsequently arrested and his sensational trial in 1935 captivated the nation.
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Summary: Explores the events and trends of 1930, including the Great Depression and Mt. Rushmore. Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh's record-setting, coast-to-coast flight is also covered.
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Summary: Observes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reassuring fireside chats and the death of gangster John Dillinger.
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Summary: Examines World War II in Europe in 1940.
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Summary: Looks at the political landscape of 1936, including FDR's landslide re-election in the U.S., King Edward's abdication in the U.K., and the New Deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011