New York City is the source for the quintessentially American traits of capitalism, ethnic tolerance, free speech, and reliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Yet the New York legacy generally goes …
A recent survey by Penn State researchers of high school science teachers yielded the surprising results that an estimated 16% in the U.S. believe in creationism. With this large …
Do you have vacation, nature, or home photos from the Adirondack mountains/region? Tag your flickr photos with “13adirondacks” and you can be added to our set…
Wednesday night, Thirteen aired a special documentary and roundtable panel discussion on the topic of depression, with stories of those afflicted; discusson on solutions to the blues. See all …
The last plaintiff in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case has died at 88. Zelma Henderson died Tuesday in Topeka, six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, …
Help Frontline produce a follow-up to this report (watch). In a departure from regular Frontline practices, this next chapter in the story will be produced with your help. If you’re a parent, teen, teacher, or just interested in participating: make your own youtube video, blog post, or contact Frontline with your ideas. See details here.
At the end of World War II, undercover agents from the US and the Soviet Union engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture Hitler’s elite scientists and cutting edge technology. In an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War, they sought rockets, planes, nuclear bombs and the masterminds behind them. Now you can join the chase by watching the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists.
On May 19, 1935, British soldier T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash. Read more about Lawrence on the site of a PBS doc from 2003:
On May 15, 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s highest-ranking woman in government and first female secretary of state, was born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Now a professor at the …
Thirteen is offering one of it’s programs captioned for the hearing impaired… online! The film Rolling produced for public television with Thirteen is now offering the full film online with captions and other accessible media features.
