A young girl from Oregon finds a curious, yellowed circus program in her school’s drama closet that reads “Official Program of Cobina Wright’s Society Circus for the benefit of the Boy Scout Foundation, Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President, Season 1933.” The program seems to promote some kind of high-society theme party at the opulent Waldorf-Astoria [...]
Conservatives Mickey Edwards and Ross Douthat discuss why they believe their movement has gone off track during the last eight years and what it means for the Republican Party. Watch episode (originally aired Friday July 11) online.
For Catholics, it’s the most popular pilgrimage site in the world, after the Holy Land. Sick people go to Lourdes hoping for miraculous cures. But the attraction goes beyond physical healing. All those we talked with — the sick and the well — said they had a profound spiritual experience. Watch story…
In Basil Twist’s new collaboration with Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken for Pilobolus, a shadowy wedge grows into a figure’s waist; creatures that appear like frothy doodles inhabit a sea blue scrim; a face morphs into a scary biting and licking machine; nebula-like wisps dance across a starry field; blobs consume other blobs and grow. [...]
There are around 700 mountain gorillas left in the wild. Many live in Virunga National Park, bordering the Dem. Republic of Congo, and are now caught in the middle of the Congo’s ongoing civil war between militia groups and the Army. Charlie Rose sits down with a few experts on the situation….
On July 15, 1960, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic nomination for president. While the Democrats held their convention at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Kennedy gave his acceptance speech in front of some 80,000 at the nearby Los Angeles Coliseum.
In Kennedy’s Presidential Nomination acceptance speech, he said:
I am fully aware of the fact that [...]
On July 11, 1939, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio took the field for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game — held at Yankee Stadium for the first time. Tonight, the midsummer classic returns to the “House That Ruth Built” for the fourth and final time.
The documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is directing a new television series celebrating the history of America’s national parks over 150 years. The 12-hour, 6-part film will air on PBS in the fall of 2009.
Following in the tradition of The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, is an upcoming major documentary [...]
Put your own words to the all-new July election cartoon– “What the Flag Said” on NOW on PBS. You may win a NOW DVD. See the official rules. If you can’t think of a witty caption, then stop thinking, and view some of the other cartoons and their winning captions. See the winning caption for [...]
Bastille Day, the French national holiday, commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on July 14, 1789, and marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
Without losing sight of the dire inequities in 18th-century France, the film “Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution,” which originally aired on PBS in 2006, paints a surprising portrait [...]
