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 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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Professor Christopher Capozzola of MIT explains why Herbert Hoover is the real hero of World War I.
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The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum's 2009 Summer Teachers Conference focuses on the years 19191939.
NBC looks back at the election of 1960, when John F. Kennedy won the presidency by one 10th of one percent of the total votes cast.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the federal government's creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865, to assist newly freed blacks with food, clothing, and jobs.
This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at a political cartoon portraying Republican Senator Carl Shurz and explains why many considered him a "carpetbagger" during the Reconstruction era.
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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains a cartoon about the fight between pro-slavery Democrats and Free Soilers in the 1850s.
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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a political cartoon from 1836 that satirizes Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States.
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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a pro-Andrew Jackson cartoon applauding the president's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
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