New PBS Resources for US History

 

New from PBS

The U.S. History Collection, accessible through PBS LearningMedia,

pre-colonial history to the present and draws on public television’s

extensive archive of documentaries. For example, a section on American

imperialism in the years before World War I includes clips from the 1997

American Experience film on Hawaii’s last monarch, Liliuokalani, while

a section on the 20th century Space Race features an American Experience

scene about Ed Dwight, the nation’s first Black astronaut trainee whose

career was undercut by racism….”