A PBS documentary profiles the storied diplomat who was obsessed, for better and worse, with keeping his adopted country safe ...

The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...

The opening images of the forthcoming AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act aptly set the stage: a grainy shot of the Capitol building’s dome against ...

EXCLUSIVE: The idea of taking a photograph anywhere, anytime and see the image immediately has become entirely routine. But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made ...

CHICAGO — From ramps to closed captioning, the Americans with Disabilities Act changed the landscape of daily life, but behind those changes is a powerful story of activism and perseverance. The new ...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA; July 22, 2014 -- At the semi-annual Television Critics Association conference today, PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE announced that“Walt Disney,” a new four-hour, two-night film that ...

I probably wasn't paying attention that day in high-school history class when we covered post-Civil War Reconstruction. I may have been watching a work crew redo the gym roof, or passing stupid notes ...

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 examines how a white mob overthrew the democratically elected interracial government of a North Carolina town. Credit: Courtesy Image / American Experience Just in time ...

Henry Kissinger shows papers to aide Winston Lord aboard Air Force One in 1972. National Archives and Records Administration. For a generation of young diplomats, strategists, and scholars, working ...

GBH in Boston announced Tuesday that it will lay off 13 employees who work on the history documentary series American Experience and will pause production of new broadcast episodes. In a statement, ...

GBH is laying off 13 employees from its PBS history program, "American Experience," due to “severe cuts in federal funding for public media,” GBH chief executive Susan Goldberg told staff Monday night ...