Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Examines post-war struggles of Congress to readmit the south the southern states into the Union with the Reconstruction Amendments. Also looks at social and economic opposition to the citizenship of former slaves, including the Ku Klux Klan, sharecropping and black segregation.
Covers policies and attitudes towards immigrants to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Issues such as the limits of ethnic diversity, exemplified by the Chinese Exclusion Act, are examined. Also, new forms of leisure and mass entertainment.
