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This unprecedented access takes viewers deep into one of the country's most notorious jail complexes, where over 6,000 people endure daily life...

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a...

Audience members and panelists come together for a town hall in Orlando to start a broader conversation about gun violence and the moral obligations...

He earned nicknames that often equated to the most powerful forces in heaven and earth: The Cyclone. The Whirlwind. The Comet. He earned the respect...

Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e​ xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as...

Prior to his Pop-art fame in New York, Roy Lichtenstein struggled to find work and raised a family in Cleveland. His wife Isabel helped support him...

By 1964, black Mississippians had suffered 75 years of Jim Crow. Civil rights activists came up with a daring plan for change. Bringing white...

"Presents a documentary on anthropologist Franz Boas, focusing on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl, his teaching career at Columbia University and...

During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The Music Makers...

Called the 'AP of the underground press,' Liberation News Service printed news from hundreds of underground papers in the '60s and '70s. LNS...

What really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? KUED producer John Howe journeys from Utah and Wyoming to Argentina and Bolivia to...

Recorded at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1974 for PBS Soundstage, English guitarist/songwriter Dave Mason shows why he's considered to be a true...

Paul Greenberg spends a year eating fish at breakfast, lunch and dinner to help answer the question: “What fish should I eat that’s good...

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

The Hudson River bore witness to the age of steamships, the Hudson River School of Painters, industrialization, pollution, and renewed...

A Special History of Saudi Arabia, it's troubled relationship with America, and the challenges confronting a nation where tradition an modernity are...

The traditional story of the gladiator is dominated by male fighters, drenched in blood and glory. But history has forgotten and, in some cases,...

"Are we on the brink of population collapse? Some economists and tech billionaires (like Elon Musk) think so. After all, birth rates are declining,...

"Some of the biggest news stories in our country were revealed by local journalists; from early 20th century lynchings to the Rodney King beating to...

"Moses Dickson, a traveling barber in the years before the Civil War, had a secret– he was one of twelve members of a covert society that...