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Cloud cover on August 9, 1945 spared Tetsuya Fujita's life as the American B-29 dropped its atomic load over its secondary target: Nagasaki. Fujita's forensic study of destruction in Japan would shape his revolutionary understanding of tornadoes. | American Experience | PBS
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Cloud cover on August 9, 1945 spared Tetsuya Fujita's life as the American B-29 dropped its atomic load over its secondary target: Nagasaki. Fujita's forensic study of destruction in Japan would shape his revolutionary understanding of tornadoes. | American Experience | PBS
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In the 1930s, America faced a real threat of fascist subversion, popping up in cities and suburbs around the country. | American Experience | PBS
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In the 1930s, America faced a real threat of fascist subversion, popping up in cities and suburbs around the country. | American Experience | PBS
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How fantasy and hubris swept through Los Angeles and led to one of the deadliest engineering disasters in American history. Watch FLOOD IN THE DESERT Tue May 3 at 9/8c → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert | American Experience | PBS
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How fantasy and hubris swept through Los Angeles and led to one of the deadliest engineering disasters in American history. Watch FLOOD IN THE DESERT Tue May 3 at 9/8c → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert | American Experience | PBS
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The Pilgrims' seminal and oft-misunderstood journey across the Atlantic 400 years ago profoundly shaped American and world history. Check your local station for THE PILGRIMS, beginning Thu Nov 19 → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims | American Experience | PBS
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The Pilgrims' seminal and oft-misunderstood journey across the Atlantic 400 years ago profoundly shaped American and world history. Check your local station for THE PILGRIMS, beginning Thu Nov 19 → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims | American Experience | PBS
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One of the worst blizzards in American history hit the east coast in March 1888, inspiring the city of Boston to embark on one of the greatest infrastructure projects in American history. | American Experience | PBS
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One of the worst blizzards in American history hit the east coast in March 1888, inspiring the city of Boston to embark on one of the greatest infrastructure projects in American history. | American Experience | PBS
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In his final race before retirement, seven-year-old Seabiscuit took one last stab at the contest that had twice eluded him, the Santa Anita Handicap, on March 2, 1940. Clocking the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the track's history, Seabiscuit won the race and its $121,000 prize. The thoroughbred hadn't always been a champion, but trainer Tom Smith saw his potential as a young horse and turned him into a winner. | American Experience | PBS
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After nearly five years of negotiations, representatives of the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the communist Provisional Revolutionary Government signed the Paris Peace Accords, calling for a ceasefire in Vietnam and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, on January 27, 1973. The United States and Hanoi entered preliminary peace talks in 1968, as growing numbers of Americans protested the war. Harvard professor Henry Kissinger, eager to secure a role in the next administration, shared
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How did an obscure gathering in 1621 become a national holiday? Watch the full conversation on the myth of Thanksgiving → https://youtube.com/live/2bs1WDDcMWQ | American Experience | PBS
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Santa Claus and department stores go together like Rudolph and a red nose. But have you ever wondered where the tradition began? | American Experience | PBS
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Marian Anderson faced a crowd of more than 75,000 people. When she began to sing, a hush of reverent silence descended on the audience. Watch VOICE OF FREEDOM Mon Feb 15 at 9/8c on PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/voice-freedom | American Experience | PBS
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Discover 100 years of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, through the memories of living witnesses. Watch GOIN' BACK TO T-TOWN now streaming → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/t-town | American Experience | PBS
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To fight a terrible disease, Americans banded together. Watch THE POLIO CRUSADE Tue June 15 at 9/8c on PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/polio | American Experience | PBS
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What do we actually know about the first Thanksgiving? Hear Native perspectives on the first encounter with European settlers—and how the idea of Thanksgiving entered American mythology—with Wampanoag historian Linda Coombs, Narragansett Knowledge Keeper Cassius Spears and Sicangu Lakota filmmaker Yvonne Russo → https://to.pbs.org/49Gx9eO | American Experience | PBS
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The 1960 World Series was David and Goliath - the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees. Goliath, in the end, was no match for Roberto Clemente. Watch ROBERTO CLEMENTE now streaming → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/roberto-clemente | American Experience | PBS
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“Here was something that was different. Absolutely not briefed on.” Astronaut Bill Anders and the Apollo 8 crew didn't wait for instructions to capture this remarkable view — “Earthrise." | American Experience | PBS
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Fifty years ago, on June 28, 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn turned into a protest. That protest, in turn, became a pivotal moment in LGBTQ history and the gay civil rights movement. Watch the documentary STONEWALL UPRISING, now streaming → pbs.org/stonewall | American Experience | PBS
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They met in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. Watch FREEDOM SUMMER now streaming → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/ | American Experience | PBS
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The final years leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment were a long, hard push — through politics, protest, and sheer persistence. THE VOTE continues July 7 at 9/8c → pbs.org/thevote | American Experience | PBS
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Black cowboys roamed the West, but where were they on the silver screen? RIVETED: THE HISTORY OF JEANS premieres Mon Feb 7 at 9/8c → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/riveted-history-of-jeans | American Experience | PBS
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The USS Maine explosion was probably an accident - but that didn't stop Hearst from blaming Spain and taking credit for the Spanish-American War. | American Experience | PBS
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Countdown to relive the journey that defined a generation. CHASING THE MOON begins July 8 at 9/8c on PBS → pbs.org/chasingthemoon | American Experience | PBS
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The day suffragists paraded through the capital was a turning point, revealing new possibilities and strategies in the fight for the vote. Watch THE VOTE now streaming → pbs.org/thevote | American Experience | PBS
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Known as "crusades," Billy Graham traveled the world delivering sermons to large audiences. By some estimates, he preached to more than 210 million people in his lifetime. BILLY GRAHAM premieres Mon May 17 at 9/8c → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/billy-graham | American Experience | PBS
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