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Special Collection: American Experience on Teachers' Domain

Television's most-watched history series, American Experience, brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present. This collection offers you quick access to videos, interactives, and articles from American Experience, on air and on the Web.

Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
AC / DC: What's the Difference? This animated essay from the American Experience Web site explains the difference between alternating and direct electric current and offers in-depth explanations about the role played by a battery, light bulb, wire, and generator.	6-12	HTML Interactive
Alexander Hamilton: Early Influences In this video segment from American Experience, learn about how the events of Hamilton's youth in the West Indies influenced the direction of his life.	5-12	QuickTime Video
The Bayonet Constitution This video from American Experience describes the events that forced Hawaiian King Kalakaua in 1887 to accept a new constitution for Hawai‘i that limited his power and gave increased influence to white landowners.	8-12	QuickTime Video
Building the Alaska Oil Pipeline This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of how environmentalists, Alaska Native peoples, and engineers concerned about the effects of permafrost challenged plans for the Alaska oil pipeline.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Building the Erie Canal In this video segment adapted from American Experience, learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, the biggest public works project of its time.	5-12	QuickTime Video
A Case for the Separation of Powers This video segment adapted from American Experience introduces how John Adams called for the separation of powers in the Massachusetts Constitution into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.	5-12	QuickTime Video
Elements of Steel This resource from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site, which contains both an interactive activity and illustrated text, looks at the composition of different types of steel and their impact on technology.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Forgotten Inventors This illustrated feature from the American Experience Web site highlights the frequently forgotten inventors of several useful, innovative technologies.	3-12	HTML Interactive
Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE features original footage of the U.S. test of the first hydrogen device, code-named "Mike", that would trigger thermonuclear fusion.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb Just after World War II, nuclear scientists turned their attention from fission to fusion. This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE looks at the beginnings of thermonuclear power generation.	6-12	QuickTime Video
How to Build A Road Geology and weather introduced a variety of unexpected problems when construction crews were building the Alaska Highway. In this interactive activity from the American Experience Web site, see how Army engineers improvised solutions to blaze a trail through the wilderness.	3-12	Flash Interactive
Ike and Little Rock This video segment, adapted from American Experience: "Ike", profiles the president's controversial response to the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Implementing Brown Point/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower."	6-12	QuickTime Video
Nuclear Blast Damage This illustrated document from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site examines the "zones of destruction" caused by nuclear weapons.	6-12	HTML Document
Nuclear Blast Footage These video clips from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site feature actual footage of thermonuclear blast testing done in the 1950s.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Nuclear Reaction: Three Mile Island This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE examines the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.	6-12	QuickTime Video
The Overthrow of Queen Lili‘uokalani This video from American Experience documents the coup d'état of January 1893 and its aftermath, when a group of sugar plantation owners, businessmen, and descendants of missionaries sought to overthrow Queen Lili‘uokalani of Hawai‘i.	8-12	QuickTime Video
Reconstruction and Black Education This mini-documentary from the American Experience: "Reconstruction" Web site follows post-Civil War development of public education for African Americans in the South and the resistance it sparked.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 6: Justice Warren Reads the Decision This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the dynamics and arguments among the Supreme Court justices who ruled in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Technology Timeline This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.	3-12	Flash Interactive
Test Yourself: How Panic Proof Are You? Test how panic proof you are by taking this 1953 atomic attack panic quiz from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site.	6-12	HTML Interactive
Three Mile Island: What Happened This interactive activity from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site looks at the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.	6-12	Shockwave Interactive