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Discover the unexpected history behind Monopoly, America’s favorite board game.

“The hip hop community has, from the start, been doing what the rest of media is only now catching up to.”

Ida B. Wells: American Stories frames Wells’ life and legacy in the context of today’s world, illustrating how today’s activists draw inspiration from her work.

Discover the factors that led to the birth of hip hop and how it has evolved since its first hit in 1982.

Discover music icon Roberta Flack’s rise to stardom and her triumphs over racism and sexism.

She interviewed one of the last known survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, collected African folklore, and studied “hoodoo.”

The U.S. and the Holocaust is a three-part documentary series that explores America’s response to one of the world’s greatest humanitarian crises in history.

American Experience’s Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment.

Frederick Douglass went on to become many things – abolitionist, autobiographer, essayist, diplomat, orator, political theorist, editor, publisher and social reformer.