BOSTON, MA (Aug. 3, 2026) — As the public need for trusted, fact-based storytelling intensifies, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, the GBH-produced history documentary series for PBS, is returning in 2027 with ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

Lindsay speaks to the media at New York’s City Hall in 1966. John Bottega/World Telegraph & Sun/Library of Congress. Few mayors embodied both the glamour and the grit of New York like John V. Lindsay.

One of the Capitol Crawl’s youngest participants was eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan, whose mother congratulated her when she reached the top. Photo by Tom Olin. Imagine climbing up 83 steps. Perhaps ...

Rosie the Riveter called women to join the workforce during World War II. But there was another recruitment campaign aimed at ...

A portrait of the Sadgwar sisters printed on a cabinet card, which could be shared with loved ones or exchanged with visitors. Courtesy National Bahá’í Archives. Not all images of resistance contain ...

A mob celebrates in front of the burned Love & Charity Hall which housed the black-owned and -edited newspaper, The Daily Record. Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library. This is the story of ...

The vice presidency used to look dramatically different than it does today. Largely, this is because of how little definition the Founding Fathers gave to the role in the first place. “The framers of ...

Cartoonist Robert Ripley got contract to produce one cartoon per day. At $100,000 per year, it increased his income tenfold.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cancer-detectives-brief-history-speculum/ 1847 specula. Source image: National Library of Medicine. Many ...

Children at a German American Bund camp stand at attention as the American flag and the Bund youth flag are lowered in a sundown ceremony in Andover, N.J., July 21, 1937. Associated Press. Most of the ...

She made a name for herself by speaking out against fascism abroad and at home. Then the fight got personal. On the morning of August 25, 1934, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson was taking ...