Immigrant and Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon was in jail when he was reelected. Not for the fight he started in the halls of Congress but for his willingness to criticize the relatively new government of the United States. For the first time in American history, freedom of speech was up […]
If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://ForThePeople.com/PBS In the 1800s, a powerful coalition of politicians, enslavers, and even some abolitionists backed a radical idea: send free Black […]
In 1780, Congress listened to a message from across the world describing how the Muslim rulers of The Kingdom of Mysore in …
Take the 2023 PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023p The details of Walter Loving’s complicated double life remained classified for over 60 years. Born to formerly enslaved parents, he became a famous band conductor and an advocate for Black Americans. When the U.S. military grew paranoid that Black Americans were colluding with German […]
Check out The Bigger Picture from @PBS https://youtu.be/Wnr4RJxDifw Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani American teenager named Kamala Khan, is the latest superhero to join the Marvel Universe. Her superpower? Family bangles that carry the strength and power of intergenerational knowledge passed down by her grandmother from Pakistan. But a lot of […]
Take our audience survey here: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyITM After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. To pay it off, it sold Native land it didn’t control. This is the story of how a powerful Native alliance fought back, slowing America’s westward expansion in a war forgotten by history. 00:00 […]
#queer #bigmouth #pansexual Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. All fabulous identities along with many more that are housed under the LGBTQIA+ community. And yet, in recent film and TV, there’s one identity that has been particularly visible: pansexuality. Professor Bainbridge along with special guests Megan Townsend and Fran Tirado take a look […]
Take our audience survey here: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyRH King Philip’s War was the deadliest conflict of the colonial period. What scared the colonists most was the sophistication of Philip’s forces. Indigenous warriors used guerrilla tactics that the English, trained in European-style warfare, were completely unprepared for.So while the colonists were the ones […]
One hot, mosquito-filled summer, less than a decade after the birth of the US, yellow fever brought the capital city to the brink of collapse. As the Founding Fathers fled to safety, a small community of essential workers stepped up. Who are these unsung heroes, and how did Philadelphia bounce […]
The British government vowed freedom to enslaved people if they could escape and take up arms against their Patriot enslavers. But when the British failed to deliver promised land in Nova Scotia, the Black Loyalists needed a leader to step up, sail across the ocean, and demand a solution. That […]
