HIS 105: US History 1865 - Present: Videos

The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Professor Miller introduces the miner as the quintessential laborer of the period -- working under grinding conditions, organizing into unions, and making a stand against the reigning money man of the day, J. Pierpont Morgan

Examines how mining and industrial expansion changed the West forever, while land rushes and assimilation efforts prolonged the tragedy for Native Americans.

It had taken the bloodshed and sacrifice of the Civil War to reunite the nation, North and South. But when the war was over, Americans set out with equal determination to unite the nation, East and West. To do it, they would build a railroad. Its completion would be one of the greatest technological achievements of the age.

This program explores many facets of the Gilded Age, including industrialization and the growth of big business, the urbanization of America, the grueling working conditions many endured, and the influence of Victorian culture on American society.

This program presents the American presidency of the Gilded Age, an era of unbridled economic growth that saw the completion of Manifest Destiny. It includes Grover Cleveland’s two nonconsecutive terms in office, William McKinley’s assassination,

From the Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall, through to tech solutions of Silicon Valley, America has shaped the world we live in—all the while shaping its own identity through the iconic buildings and structures that chart the nation’s history.

Follow the account of Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.

This program explores our history and culture during the early 20th century, when a wave of reforms changed our political system and attempted to remedy the social and economic inequities arising from industrialization and urbanization.

This program provides an excellent overview of the times, underscoring the importance of women’s suffrage, the Square Deal, the temperance movement, and other signal initiatives. In addition, many of the era’s movers and shakers are spotlighted.

This program focuses on America’s emergence as a global power during WWI and covers Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

American Experience: Woodrow Wilson is a two-part profile of one of the most effective Democrat incumbents of the 20th century -- Woodrow Wilson.

Join Ken Burns to examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.

From the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo to the delegates signing the Versailles Treaty, this program covers the events that set off the war and the war itself.

Blending historical reenactments with archival footage and photos, this sheds light on a long moment in history when the victorious combatants of the Great War created the League of Nations, redrew the map of the modern world, and revenged themselves upon Germany via the Treaty of Versailles.

From the collapse of the stock market on October 29, 1929—Black Tuesday—to the many federal initiatives designed to revive the faltering U.S. economy, this program offers an insightful overview of life during the Great Depression.

This program covers World War II from the invasion of Poland, soon after dawn on September 1, 1939, to the Nuremberg war trials and the hanging of the convicted Nazi war criminals.

This two-part series looks closely at the American and Soviet stratergies of propaganda and proxy wars over four decades of the Cold War struggle for dominance.

On the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch attacks on cities and military bases throughout the South, suffering devastating losses but casting doubt on Johnson’s promise that there is “light at the end of the tunnel.”

This program covers the period in American history presided over by Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.

Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

Documents the unraveling of Nixon’s presidency, from his landslide victory in the election of 1972 to his departure from the White House less than two years later.

Running through the 2004 presidential campaign, this program examines the new world order shaped by the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of global terrorism.