This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the American public's great interest in tabloid accounts of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces elements of state constitutions, like branches of power and checks and balances, that were eventually incorporated into the national constitution.
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A panel of professors examine what led the U.S. to enter Vietnam and begin the Vietnam War and consideration of whether this was or was not a mistake.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how temporary workers from Mexico filled huge labor shortages created by World War II and became part of the continuing debate about immigration.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the nativism of the 1840s and 1850s—the fear that the flood of Irish and German immigration would result in immigrants out-breeding, out-voting, and out-working native-born Americans.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Bostonian Samuel Adams's encouragement of Committees of Correspondence, which were letter-writing campaigns to monitor British activities in the colonies.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam (now New York City) to establish a stronghold in the fur trade.
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Columbia University professor Alan Brinkley describes the extraordinary efforts by Franklin Roosevelt to ramp up industrial production to meet the needs of World War II.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Stamp Act, a British tax on all printed material, from marriage licenses to playing cards. It infuriated colonists.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Intolerable Acts, Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. More legislation to control the colonists only incited more rebellion.
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