Episode guide
American Experience: Season 25
8 episodes · premiered Jan 7, 2013
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- Episode 1: The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838 Jan 8, 2013 · 55m The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel…
- Episode 2: The Abolitionists: 1838-1854 Jan 15, 2013 · 55m See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
- Episode 3: The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory Jan 22, 2013 · 55m Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
- Episode 4: Henry Ford Jan 29, 2013 · 55m An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the…
- Episode 5: Silicon Valley Feb 5, 2013 · 55m Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the…
- Episode 6: War of the Worlds Oct 29, 2013 · 55m A broadcast that struck fear into an already anxious nation, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast was the most famous alien invasion that never happened.
- Episode 7: JFK (Part 1) Nov 11, 2013 · 55m A two-part profile of John F. Kennedy begins with his early years, detailing the health challenges he faced; his heroism after his PT boat was hit by an enemy destroyer during World War…
- Episode 8: JFK (Part 2) Nov 12, 2013 · 55m Conclusion. John F. Kennedy's White House years, including the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Cuban Missile Crisis; handling of civil rights; and decision to travel to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to…