American Experience RSS feed for PBS programming.http://video.pbs.orgen-ushttp://video.pbs.orgSat, 25 May 2013 15:30:26 -0400Sat, 25 May 2013 15:30:26 -0400http://video.pbs.org/video/2365017068/An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture.http://video.pbs.org/video/2365017068/05/24/2013The story behind the world's largest sculpture and the shrine of democracy.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2334127894/John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil. Broadcasting on many PBS stations February 12, 2013. Check your location listings.http://video.pbs.org/video/2334127894/02/11/2013John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryEpisodehttp://video.pbs.org/video/2329934360/The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management.http://video.pbs.org/video/2329934360/01/28/2013He rose from obscurity to become the 20th century's most influential American innovator.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryTechnologyTechnologyEpisodeend=2016-01-29http://video.pbs.org/video/2191652059/Annie Oakley excelled in a man's world by doing what she loved, and won fame and fortune as the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot.http://video.pbs.org/video/2191652059/02/01/2012Annie Oakley won fame and fortune as the little lady who never missed a shot.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPopular CulturePopular CultureBiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Episodeend=2015-01-30http://video.pbs.org/video/2191652091/A product of the American Civil War, James was less heroic than brutal; America's own Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich, but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.http://video.pbs.org/video/2191652091/02/01/2012A product of the American Civil War, James was less heroic than brutal.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPopular CulturePopular CultureBiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Episodeend=2015-01-30http://video.pbs.org/video/18036565/The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. A product of the American Civil War, James was less heroic than brutal; America's own Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich, but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself. 5/7/2013http://video.pbs.org/video/18036565/10/04/2011Airs Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.nrHistoryHistoryUnited StatesUnited StatesPopular CulturePopular CultureThe American LandscapeThe American Landscape1624 - 18651624 - 1865BiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Promotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2185484678/A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared man in the West and an enduring western icon.http://video.pbs.org/video/2185484678/01/11/2012A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it.nrHistoryHistoryUnited StatesUnited StatesPopular CulturePopular CultureThe American LandscapeThe American LandscapeBiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Episodeend=2015-01-07http://video.pbs.org/video/2181241931/Writer Mark Lee Gardner performs a ballad about Billy the Kid during his interview for the film.http://video.pbs.org/video/2181241931/12/28/2011Mark Lee Gardner performs a ballad about Billy the Kid during his interview for the film.nrHistoryHistoryUnited StatesUnited StatesPopular CulturePopular CultureBiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Cliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2183115231/The first chapter of American Experience's Billy the Kid.http://video.pbs.org/video/2183115231/01/03/2012The first chapter of Billy the Kid.nrHistoryHistoryUnited StatesUnited StatesThe American LandscapeThe American LandscapeBiographiesBiographies1866 - 19001866 - 1900Segmenthttp://video.pbs.org/video/2164040370/From the "Billy the Kid" production team, a time-lapse video from the point of view of a train streaming across the Western landscape.http://video.pbs.org/video/2164040370/11/09/2011A time-lapse video from the "Billy the Kid" production team.nrHistoryHistoryUnited StatesUnited States1946 - TODAY1946 - TODAYPopular CulturePopular CultureThe American LandscapeThe American LandscapeBiographiesBiographiesCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2311494786/John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil.http://video.pbs.org/video/2311494786/11/30/2012John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2332620963/John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America. Watch the epic story of the man who monopolized oil. Broadcasting on many PBS stations February 12, 2013. Check your location listings.http://video.pbs.org/video/2332620963/02/06/2013John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire and the most hated man in America.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2330992708/As an undergraduate student, Robert Noyce sees the technical reports on the brand new transistor and knew he was looking at the future. "The concept hit me like the atom bomb," he later recalled. But he does not like the structure of the large East Coast tech companies.http://video.pbs.org/video/2330992708/01/31/2013Robert Noyce sees the technical reports on the transistor and knew it was the future.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2332168287/Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.http://video.pbs.org/video/2332168287/02/05/2013Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryEpisodeend=2016-02-05http://video.pbs.org/video/2331975053/Introduced in 1971, the microprocessor is basically the fundamental driving force and brain of all of the digital equipment we use today -- from iPhones and computers to notebooks and tablets.http://video.pbs.org/video/2331975053/02/04/2013The digital revolution officially began in 1971 with the invention of the microprocessor.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryTechnologyTechnologyCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2328264748/Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future. Premiering February 5, 2013 at 9pm ET.http://video.pbs.org/video/2328264748/01/23/2013Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryTechnologyTechnologyCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2330982198/Throughout the early 1960s thousands of young men and women poured into the Santa Clara valley every month, lured by the booming electronics and defense industries. "There was just too much talent stuffed into one place."http://video.pbs.org/video/2330982198/01/31/2013Thousands of young men and women poured into the Santa Clara valley every month.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2320041315/Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.http://video.pbs.org/video/2320041315/12/21/2012Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2330999234/During the early days of Silicon Valley, physicists and engineers from various companies in the valley would meet at "The Wagon Wheel," a hangout for Fairchild employees and for people who worked at Fairchild spin-off companies. As one Fairchild employee put it, the Wagon Wheel was a hub of networking.http://video.pbs.org/video/2330999234/01/31/2013Silicon Valley scientists met at The Wagon Wheel for drinks, networking, and camaraderie.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2306489966/Despite being hard on his only son Edsel, Henry Ford doted upon his grandchildren. Edsel's first son, Henry II, who would later become president of Ford Motor Company, is seen here at age two, playing with his grandfather in the garden at Fair Lane estate on June 9, 1920.http://video.pbs.org/video/2306489966/11/19/2012Despite being hard on his only son Edsel, Henry Ford doted upon his grandchildren. 1920nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistorySegmenthttp://video.pbs.org/video/2306513175/For many years, Henry Ford took annual camping trips with the "vagabonds" - his close friends Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs - with an entourage of servants, photographers, friends and family often in tow. On several occasions a president even joined along - President Harding in 1921 and Coolidge in 1923. Here, the group dined around a giant lazy Susan during their 1923 trip.http://video.pbs.org/video/2306513175/11/19/2012Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone lunching while "camping" in 1923.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistorySegmenthttp://video.pbs.org/video/2324211206/Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. In 1896, shortly after building his quadricycle, Henry Ford had the chance to meet the famous inventor at a convention in New York. Edison, who was convinced the future lay in electric powered cars, encouraged Ford to "keep at it." In 1907, Ford was on the brink of releasing the Model T. The inventors forged a friendship that lasted their whole lives.http://video.pbs.org/video/2324211206/01/09/2013Thomas Edison was Henry Ford's hero. The inventors remained friends their whole lives.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistorySegmenthttp://video.pbs.org/video/2326245032/The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management. Premiering January 29, 2012 at 9/8c on PBS.http://video.pbs.org/video/2326245032/01/16/2013He rose from obscurity to become the 20th century's most influential American innovator.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2324178847/In the 1920s, many Americans were listening to Jazz and learning the Charleston. Henry Ford preferred the country dances he learned as a boy - quadrilles, gavottes, the schottische, the polka and the chorus jig were his favorites. Later in life he hosted dance lessons in Dearborn twice a week to teach what he believed was the correct, old way of dancing.http://video.pbs.org/video/2324178847/01/09/2013Henry Ford hosted dance lessons in Dearborn twice a week to teach the old ways of dancing.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistorySegmenthttp://video.pbs.org/video/2312274279/The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, this documentary of Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management.http://video.pbs.org/video/2312274279/12/03/2012He rose from obscurity to become the 20th century's most influential American innovator.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2329670600/An interview with Sarah Colt, producer/writer/director for "Henry Ford." Premiering January 29, 2013 at 9/8c on PBS.http://video.pbs.org/video/2329670600/01/28/2013An interview with Sarah Colt, producer/writer/director for "Henry Ford."nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2322816384/Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.http://video.pbs.org/video/2322816384/01/03/2013Premiering January 22, 9pm. To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2322681925/Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.http://video.pbs.org/video/2322681925/01/02/2013Premiering January 15, 9pm. To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2325276804/Map history with American Experience! You can relive the history of the abolitionist movement on American Experience's Mapping History iPhone app and explore places central to the nation's anti-slavery effort. Dozens of museums, institutions and PBS stations have partnered with American Experience to bring you archival images, documents and videos related to abolitionism.http://video.pbs.org/video/2325276804/01/14/2013Download the American Experience: Mapping History iPhone app, featuring The Abolitionists.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryTechnologyTechnologyPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2319687052/At the death of William Lloyd Garrison in 1879, Frederick Douglass offers a eulogy to the abolitionists and to the movement itself.http://video.pbs.org/video/2319687052/12/20/2012Frederick Douglass offers a eulogy to the abolitionist movement at Garrison's funeral.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2294201861/In 1841 Frederick Douglass agreed to join forces with William Lloyd Garrison to advocate full time for the abolitionism of slavery. It is "an opportunity to strike a blow for the slaves who continue to suffer as we speak."http://video.pbs.org/video/2294201861/10/19/2012Frederick Douglass agrees to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for abolitionism.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2295586661/After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they have a falling out. "Douglass has had that experience. Garrison is a white man in a white man's America."http://video.pbs.org/video/2295586661/10/23/2012After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, abolition takes on a new urgency for enslaved peoplenrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2292794012/After reading reports of pro-slavery violence, Angelina Grimke decided she could remain silent no longer. She published a letter in "The Liberator" and wrote "An Appeal to the Women of the South," urging them to work for the downfall of slavery.http://video.pbs.org/video/2292794012/10/17/2012After reading reports of pro-slavery violence, Angelina Grimke began to speak out publiclynrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2290257878/The daughter of one of South Carolina's first families, Angelina Grimke lived in luxury. But she also believed slavery was a sin and God would punish people who had slaves.http://video.pbs.org/video/2290257878/10/12/2012Despite living in luxury, Angelina Grimke believed slavery was a sin of God.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2290363874/In the fall of 1829, Angelina Grimke resolved to leave Charleston and the pollutions of slavery, for an uncertain future in the Northhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2290363874/10/12/2012In 1829, Angelina Grimke left Charleston for an uncertain future in the North.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298107242/In 1859 John Brown seized a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, but failed to incite a revolution. Authorities found a link between Brown and Frederick Douglass.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298107242/10/29/2012John Brown seizes a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, VA, but fails to incite revolution.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298116411/After surviving his failed siege of the armory at Harper's Ferry, John Brown goes on trial where he dominates the proceedings and the press. "You have the Northern establishment, every newspaper, saying this guy's a hero."http://video.pbs.org/video/2298116411/10/29/2012After Harper's Ferry, Brown goes on trial where he dominates the proceedings and the pressnrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2290421218/The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature. Instead of bringing about the end of slavery, it triggered a wave of repression. In Charleston, SC, 3,000 people gathered in Post Office square to destroy anti-slavery materials and burn Garrison in effigy.http://video.pbs.org/video/2290421218/10/12/2012The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 triggered a wave of repression.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2294198301/In September of 1838, Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's "The Liberator" abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his story, Garrison realized he had found the man he had been looking for. Garrison approached Douglass with a proposition.http://video.pbs.org/video/2294198301/10/19/2012In September of 1838, Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2295556186/In Rochester, New York, the last stop on the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass published abolitionist newspaper "The North Star," naming it after the icon followed by so many escaping slaves on their quest to freedom.http://video.pbs.org/video/2295556186/10/23/2012In Rochester, NY, Frederick Douglass publishes abolitionist newspaper "The North Star."nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2295602426/In the Spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail. Locals protesting for Burns' release turned violent before the U.S. President Franklin Pierce ordered hundreds of military troops to escort Burns to a ship waiting in the harbor. Though abolitionists were losing hope, they had shifted history.http://video.pbs.org/video/2295602426/10/23/2012In the Spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2291360172/At six years old, Frederick Douglass had just begun his life as a slave when he witnessed his aunt get beaten brutally by her master. "It was the bloodstained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery," he would later write.http://video.pbs.org/video/2291360172/10/15/2012Frederick Douglass had just begun his life as a slave when he watched his aunt get beatennrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2294187097/After having escaped to New York, Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Douglass did hard manual labor to provide for his family for three years before making a fateful trip to Nantucket.http://video.pbs.org/video/2294187097/10/19/2012Frederick Douglass and his wife settle in New Bedford, MA where he does hard manual labor.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2292086226/In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission. After six months of beatings, Douglass fought back. "I was nothing before. I was a man now."http://video.pbs.org/video/2292086226/10/16/2012In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2319483495/The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal. To abolitionists, this represented a huge blow to their efforts. Not only had the federal government endorsed slavery, but it had also committed to preserving the institution indefinitely.http://video.pbs.org/video/2319483495/12/20/2012The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves full legal.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298040308/After fighting for the abolition of slavery for 25 years, William Lloyd Garrison believes the Republic had been corrupted from the start. In Massachusetts, he burns a copy of the constitution. "The Constitution of the United States of America is the source and parent of all the other atrocities: 'a covenant with death, and an agreement with Hell.'"http://video.pbs.org/video/2298040308/10/29/2012William Lloyd Garrison believes the Republic was corrupt and burns the constitution.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298156208/After four decades and 1,803 issues, William Lloyd Garrison closed The Liberator after the 13th Amendment was added to the constitution. He could continue to fight for equal rights, dying in 1879 at age 73.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298156208/10/29/2012After four decades and 1,803 issues, William Lloyd Garrison closed The Liberator.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2294088902/On October 21, 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was headed to give an anti-slavery lecture at the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. An anti-abolitionist mob dragged him out of hiding and threatened his life, but two burly men took pity on Garrison and he ended up spending the night in jail for his own protection.http://video.pbs.org/video/2294088902/10/19/2012William Lloyd Garrison is attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston in 1835.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2319445046/William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd of abolitionists in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He introduces the self-emancipated Frederick Douglass, soon leading to a powerful partnership with a common cause -- immediate abolition of slavery.http://video.pbs.org/video/2319445046/12/20/2012William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd in Nantucket and introduces Frederick Douglass.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2292068392/William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of "The Liberator" on January 1, 1831 with financial support from both black and white abolitionists. "There shall be no neutrals," he declared. "Men shall either like or dislike me."http://video.pbs.org/video/2292068392/10/16/2012William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of "The Liberator" on January 1, 1831.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2292080218/Having recently moved to Cincinnati with her family, Harriet Beecher visited the slave state of Kentucky in 1833, staying here at the Marshall Key House. While in Kentucky, she witnessed slavery up close for the first time. The house now operates as the Harriet Beecher Stowe, Slavery to Freedom Museum.http://video.pbs.org/video/2292080218/10/16/2012On a trip to Kentucky in 1833, Harriet Beecher witnessed slavery up close.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298044858/John Brown put little stock in the idea of abolition through peaceful means. In 1855, he gathered his arsenal and left his home for the slave state of Kansas where he would begin his bloody struggle.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298044858/10/29/2012John Brown put little stock in peaceful abolition. In 1855 he left New York for Kansas.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298130389/On September 22nd, 1862, Lincoln promised to sign an Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's Day. "All persons," Lincoln wrote, "held as slaves within any State in rebellion shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." But abolitionists were unsure whether he would keep his promise.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298130389/10/29/2012In 1862, Lincoln promises to sign an Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's Day.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2295545426/George Latimer arrived in Boston in the fall of 1842, only to be thrown in jail at the request of a Virginia planter. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison rallied other local abolitionists to call for Latimer's freedom. It worked, and within months Massachusetts passed the Personal Liberty Act, which would soon have nationwide ramifications.http://video.pbs.org/video/2295545426/10/23/2012Escaped slave George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release affects the country.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2297138723/A preview for "The Abolitionists," premiering January 8, 15 & 22, 2013.http://video.pbs.org/video/2297138723/10/26/2012A preview for "The Abolitionists," premiering January 8, 15 & 22, 2013.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2321796209/Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.http://video.pbs.org/video/2321796209/12/28/2012Premiering January 8, 9pm. To create a more perfect union, they tore the nation apart.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryPromotionhttp://video.pbs.org/video/2294164187/Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows. The following night, the protestors set fire to the building -- completely destroying Philadelphia's monument to free speech.http://video.pbs.org/video/2294164187/10/19/2012An anti-abolitionist mob threatens a meeting and burns Pennsylvania Hall to the ground.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298126834/In April 1861, the American Civil War began, reuniting abolitionists who had grown apart in recent years.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298126834/10/29/2012American Civil War reunited abolitionists who had grown apart in recent years.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298073069/In 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision had the potential to legalize slavery everywhere in the United States.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298073069/10/29/2012The Dred Scott decision had the potential to legalize slavery everywhere in the U.S.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryCliphttp://video.pbs.org/video/2298136147/Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation into effect January 1, 1863. Every slave in the South was then, thenceforward, and forever, free.http://video.pbs.org/video/2298136147/10/29/2012Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation into effect January 1, 1863.nrCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyHistoryHistoryClip