Episode guide
American Experience: Season 21
9 episodes · first aired Jan 25, 2009
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- 1 The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer Jan 26, 2009 · 55m A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.
- 2 The Polio Crusade Feb 2, 2009 · 55m The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The medical breakthrough saved countless lives and had a pervasive…
- 3 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Feb 9, 2009 · 55m On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted…
- 4 A Class Apart Feb 23, 2009 · 55m From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging…
- 5 We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower Apr 13, 2009 · 55m In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonists. Hungry, dirty…
- 6 We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision Apr 20, 2009 · 55m In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa (actor Billy Merasty, Cree First Nation), a Shawnee, fell into a trance so deep that those around him believed he had died. When he finally stirred, the…
- 7 We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears Apr 27, 2009 · 55m The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United…
- 8 We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo May 4, 2009 · 55m In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache medicine man Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew to his side, whispering, “I should never have surrendered. I should…
- 9 We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee May 11, 2009 · 55m On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian…