The American Experience film “Summer of Love” portrays the culmination of the 1960s counter-culture movement. It relates the striking picture of San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
A clever mix of animation, archival footage and KING CORN clips made Kylee Darcy’s short film on the politics of food the winner of Independent Lens’ video mashup contest. Watch …
What does a life-size paper doll of Barack Obama look like? You can see for yourself at the “Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election” exhibit that …
The documentary on this gifted artist, from his glamorous work in Hollywood of the ’40s to his large-scale architectural projects of the ’50s, airs tonight at 10pm, part of June’s …
On June 26, the Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Starting with the Universe” opens. See clips and read more about this engineering visionary.
The Journal examines racial inequality in America tonight through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape with perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando …
In 1789, more than 200 female thieves, prostitutes, and con artists were shipped off to an Australian penal colony aboard the Lady Juliana. Onboard, the women rebelled….Watch the full episode of “Voyage of the Courtesans” online.
Anyone following this year’s Democratic Presidential Primaries could recall those in 1980. Similarly to today, During the primaries, the losing but high-profile candidate refused to quit despite odds against their success in securing the candidacy. But in 1980, the losing candidate, Ted Kennedy, took his case all the way to the convention.
On this day in 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed in the United States following their conviction for selling atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Many perceive the Rosenbergs …
The Peabodys were awarded June 16, and PBS programming and WNET had a number of winners, some of which are viewable in their entirety online. See list and links below…
