Awakening: Makers: Women Who Make America
The story of the birth of the modern Women’s Movement is framed by two important publications - The Feminine Mystique and Ms. Magazine - and by the women who authored them: Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. When Friedan’s book came out in 1963, ...
Changing the World: Makers: Women Who Make America
The Women’s Movement begins to break out of the campuses and urban centers where it originated to affect nearly every man, woman and child in America. In the early 1970s, feminism became a force that reshaped the relationships between men and wome...
Charting a New Course: Makers: Women Who Make America
A focused look at the workplace, where individual women crashed through the glass ceiling, and to the courts, where they waged a battle against the “hidden injuries” of battery, harassment and rape. Two women - in very different ways - asserted ...
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle for a Living Planet
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon ...
A struggle for educational equality: 1950-1980
In the 1950s, America's public schools teemed with the promise of a new, postwar generation of students, over half of whom would graduate and go on to college. This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states ha...
The bottom line in education: 1980 to the present
In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vou...
As American as public school: 1900-1950
In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transfor...
The Common school: 1770-1890
In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferso...