A new religion called spiritualism affects the nation as no other ever had. Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery. The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations. The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The story of the transcontinental railroad.
Former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart.
A story of cultural genocide-a humanist experiment gone bad. The building of the first New York City subway. P.T. Barnum - huckster, con man, promoter and entertainer. An essay on what makes baseball the great American pastime. One of the most frequently depicted and least understood moments in American history.