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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 7, Science Pioneers
directed by Sabin Streeter, fl. 2005-2017; produced by Natalia Warchol, fl. 2013 and Prisca Pointdujour, fl. 1994, in Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 7 (New York, NY: Public Broadcasting Service, 2020), 52 mins
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E.Varmus--three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world.
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directed by Sabin Streeter, fl. 2005-2017; produced by Natalia Warchol, fl. 2013 and Prisca Pointdujour, fl. 1994, in Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 7 (New York, NY: Public Broadcasting Service, 2020), 52 mins
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E.Varmus--three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Natalia Warchol, fl. 2013, Prisca Pointdujour, fl. 1994
Author / Creator
Sabin Streeter, fl. 2005-2017
Date Published / Released
2020-02, 2020
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Speaker / Narrator
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-
Person Discussed
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-, Harold E. Varmus, fl. 1990, Shirley Jackson, Francis S. Collins, 1950-
Topic / Theme
Sciences, Family, Holocaust, 1939-1945
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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 9, Italian Roots
directed by Krista Whetstone, fl. 1995; produced by Caitlin McNally, fl. 2005-2014, Megan Shub, fl. 2016 and Elizabeth Woller, fl. 2012, in Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 9 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2020), 52 mins
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of talk show-host Jimmy Kimmel and actors Marisa Tomei and John Turturro, introducing them to ancestors who made immense sacrifices to bring their families from Italy to America.
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directed by Krista Whetstone, fl. 1995; produced by Caitlin McNally, fl. 2005-2014, Megan Shub, fl. 2016 and Elizabeth Woller, fl. 2012, in Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6, Episode 9 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2020), 52 mins
Description
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of talk show-host Jimmy Kimmel and actors Marisa Tomei and John Turturro, introducing them to ancestors who made immense sacrifices to bring their families from Italy to America.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Caitlin McNally, fl. 2005-2014, Megan Shub, fl. 2016, Elizabeth Woller, fl. 2012
Author / Creator
Krista Whetstone, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
2020-02, 2020
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Topic / Theme
Immigration and emigration, Family, Genealogy
Copyright Message
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American Experience, Season 31, Episode 1, The Swamp
directed by Randall MacLowry, 1963-; produced by Rebecca Taylor, fl. 1999 and Randall MacLowry, 1963-, Film Posse and WGBH Educational Foundation, in American Experience, Season 31, Episode 1 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 1 hour 54 mins
The Swamp tells the dramatic story of humanity's attempts to conquer the Florida Everglades, one of nature's most mysterious and unique ecosystems. Home to a profusion of plants and animals found nowhere else on the continent, the Everglades was an immense watershed covering the southern half of the Florida penins...
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directed by Randall MacLowry, 1963-; produced by Rebecca Taylor, fl. 1999 and Randall MacLowry, 1963-, Film Posse and WGBH Educational Foundation, in American Experience, Season 31, Episode 1 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 1 hour 54 mins
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The Swamp tells the dramatic story of humanity's attempts to conquer the Florida Everglades, one of nature's most mysterious and unique ecosystems. Home to a profusion of plants and animals found nowhere else on the continent, the Everglades was an immense watershed covering the southern half of the Florida peninsula. In the 19th century, however, most Americans believed swamps were filled with diseases and noxious reptiles and saw them as obstac...
The Swamp tells the dramatic story of humanity's attempts to conquer the Florida Everglades, one of nature's most mysterious and unique ecosystems. Home to a profusion of plants and animals found nowhere else on the continent, the Everglades was an immense watershed covering the southern half of the Florida peninsula. In the 19th century, however, most Americans believed swamps were filled with diseases and noxious reptiles and saw them as obstacles to the nation's progress. The idea of draining the Everglades became the goal of many entrepreneurs, politicians and salesmen who saw great potential in turning the massive wetland into a profitable enterprise. Altering the landscape of the Everglades unleashed a torrent of unintended consequences, from catastrophic floods to brutal droughts. Told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, from hucksters to politicians to unlikely activists, The Swamp explores the repeated efforts to transform what was seen as a vast and useless wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, ultimately leading to a passionate campaign to preserve America's greatest wetland.
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rebecca Taylor, fl. 1999, Randall MacLowry, 1963-, Film Posse, WGBH Educational Foundation, Tim Hopper, fl. 1987
Author / Creator
Randall MacLowry, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Tim Hopper, fl. 1987
Topic / Theme
Climate and the Environment, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945)
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, Reconstruction: Part 2, Hour 1
directed by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999; produced by Portland Helmich, fl. 2019 and Stacey Holman, fl. 1999, in Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 56 mins
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary soc...
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directed by Stacey Holman, fl. 1999; produced by Portland Helmich, fl. 2019 and Stacey Holman, fl. 1999, in Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 56 mins
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeu...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a ‘brief moment in the sun’ for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Portland Helmich, fl. 2019, Stacey Holman, fl. 1999
Author / Creator
Stacey Holman, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
2019-04-16, 2019
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Speaker / Narrator
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-
Person Discussed
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-
Topic / Theme
Postwar reconstruction, Race relations, Racism, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, Reconstruction (1866–1876), African Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, Reconstruction: Part 2, Hour 2
directed by Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015; produced by Portland Helmich, fl. 2019 and Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015, in Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 56 mins
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary soc...
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directed by Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015; produced by Portland Helmich, fl. 2019 and Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015, in Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2019), 56 mins
Description
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeu...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a ‘brief moment in the sun’ for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Portland Helmich, fl. 2019, Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015
Author / Creator
Julia Marchesi, fl. 2005-2015
Date Published / Released
2019-04-16, 2019
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Speaker / Narrator
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-
Person Discussed
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950-
Topic / Theme
Postwar reconstruction, Race relations, Racism, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, Reconstruction (1866–1876), African Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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American Experience, Season 30 Episode 3, The Gilded Age
directed by Sarah Colt, fl. 2000; produced by Helen Ryan Dobrowski, fl. 1997 and Sarah Colt, fl. 2000, American Experience Films, WGBH Boston and Sarah Colt Productions, in American Experience, Season 30 Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 54 mins
The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separate...
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directed by Sarah Colt, fl. 2000; produced by Helen Ryan Dobrowski, fl. 1997 and Sarah Colt, fl. 2000, American Experience Films, WGBH Boston and Sarah Colt Productions, in American Experience, Season 30 Episode 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 54 mins
Description
The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Helen Ryan Dobrowski, fl. 1997, Sarah Colt, fl. 2000, American Experience Films, WGBH Boston, Sarah Colt Productions, Oliver Platt, 1960-
Author / Creator
Sarah Colt, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Oliver Platt, 1960-
Person Discussed
Jacob S. Coxey, Sr., 1854-1951, J. P. Morgan, 1837-1913, Henry George, 1839-1897, Alva Belmont, 1853-1933, Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919
Topic / Theme
Panic of 1893-1896, Gilded Age, 1877-1899, Political and Social Movements, Family and Culture, Trade and Commerce, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7, The Chinese Exclusion Act
directed by Ric Burns, 1955- and Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984; produced by Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015 and Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society and American Experience Films, in American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 2 hours 40 mins
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
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directed by Ric Burns, 1955- and Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984; produced by Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015 and Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society and American Experience Films, in American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 2 hours 40 mins
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015, Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society, American Experience Films, Hoon Lee, 1973-
Author / Creator
Ric Burns, 1955-, Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Hoon Lee, 1973-
Topic / Theme
Chinese Exclusion Act Passed, United States, 1882, The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Civil War (1860–1865), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Chinese, Americans
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American Experience, Series 333. Episode 7, The Circus, Part One
directed by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997 and Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, in American Experience, Series 333. Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 52 mins
American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era w...
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directed by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997 and Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, in American Experience, Series 333. Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 52 mins
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American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country. For many Americans, the circu...
American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country. For many Americans, the circus embodied the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular. Through the intertwined stories of several of the most innovative and influential impresarios of the late nineteenth century, this series reveals the circus was a uniquely American entertainment created by a rapidly expanding and industrializing nation; that it embraced and was made possible by Western imperialism; that its history was shaped by a tension between its unconventional entertainments and prevailing standards of respectability; and that its promise for ordinary people was the possibility for personal reinvention. Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, The Circus brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town, its stars were among the most famous people in the country, and multitudes of Americans gathered to see the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997, Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, Michael Murphy, 1938-
Author / Creator
Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Michael Murphy, 1938-
Topic / Theme
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Civil War (1860–1865), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859)
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American Experience, Series 333, Episode 8, The Circus, Part Two
directed by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997 and Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, in American Experience, Series 333, Episode 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 54 mins
American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era w...
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directed by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997; produced by Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997 and Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, in American Experience, Series 333, Episode 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 1 hour 54 mins
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American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country. For many Americans, the circu...
American Experience: The Circus This four-hour mini-series tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country. For many Americans, the circus embodied the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular. Through the intertwined stories of several of the most innovative and influential impresarios of the late nineteenth century, this series reveals the circus was a uniquely American entertainment created by a rapidly expanding and industrializing nation; that it embraced and was made possible by Western imperialism; that its history was shaped by a tension between its unconventional entertainments and prevailing standards of respectability; and that its promise for ordinary people was the possibility for personal reinvention. Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, The Circus brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town, its stars were among the most famous people in the country, and multitudes of Americans gathered to see the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997, Melissa Martin Pollard, fl. 2015, Winter Pink Films, Michael Murphy, 1938-
Author / Creator
Sharon Grimberg, fl. 1997
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Michael Murphy, 1938-
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Big Picture - Media Rich Learning, The Muckrakers
produced by Media Rich Learning, in Big Picture - Media Rich Learning (Chesterton, IN: Media Rich Learning, 2018), 5 mins
In October 1902, a new issue of McClure's Magazine hit the newsstands. The popular monthly had built a reputation on publishing the best literature of the day. Now it introduced a new style of probing journalism to its demanding readers. McClure's core of crusading journalists like Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffen, an...
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produced by Media Rich Learning, in Big Picture - Media Rich Learning (Chesterton, IN: Media Rich Learning, 2018), 5 mins
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In October 1902, a new issue of McClure's Magazine hit the newsstands. The popular monthly had built a reputation on publishing the best literature of the day. Now it introduced a new style of probing journalism to its demanding readers. McClure's core of crusading journalists like Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffen, and Ray Stannard Baker became torchbearers for social change in the United States - empowering Progressive Era reforms by exposing the wo...
In October 1902, a new issue of McClure's Magazine hit the newsstands. The popular monthly had built a reputation on publishing the best literature of the day. Now it introduced a new style of probing journalism to its demanding readers. McClure's core of crusading journalists like Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffen, and Ray Stannard Baker became torchbearers for social change in the United States - empowering Progressive Era reforms by exposing the worst of turn-of-the-century America to a nation that was beginning to demand change.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Media Rich Learning
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Media Rich Learning
Series
Big Picture - Media Rich Learning
Topic / Theme
Print media, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913)
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Copyright © 2018 Media Rich Learning
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