1969-

"Explore[s] the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a revolution in gender roles and sexual norms would deepen and fuel a polarized political landscape"--Provided by publisher.

In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn't they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying focus on boyfriends and obsessing about marriage? Couldn't one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, and go to the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a draft dodger who comes to live with Charlotte's Quaker family. Tom Ed expands Charlotte's horizons as they discuss everything from war to civil disobedience to women's liberation. Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh shares how he became a reporter---and how he broke some of the most important stories of the past fifty years, from My Lai and Watergate to the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Stories, songs, and crafts help young viewers understand the history, meaning, and observance of September 11th as a day of remembrance.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews explore significant events of the Vietnam War era including the anti-war movement, the policies of Lyndon Johnson, the fall of Saigon, and the social and political impact.

"Panic gripped Saigon on April 29th, 1975, as thousands of Americans and Vietnamese scrambled to designated departure points in an effort to flee a city about to fall to Communist forces. With the airport in North Vietnamese hands, mobs swarmed the U.S. embassy, scaling the walls in an effort to get on one of the last choppers out. Over the course of eighteen hours, seventy U.S. helicopters flew six hundred and thirty rescue missions evacuating more than 1,300 Americans and almost 6,000 Vietnamese"--Provided by publisher.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, discussing the actions of President Lyndon Johnson, the Tet Offensive, the anti-war movement, the "domino theory," and other topics.

How did the United States, caught up in 1950s Cold War politics, become increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away? And why was exiting the war so difficult?.