Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: THE FIGHT OVER SCHOOL PRAYER JONATHAN ENGEL: In the upper-left hand corner there, that’s my brother Mike. And that’s Dan Roth. It just brings me back to these days. NARRATION: In 1958, Jonathan Engel’s family was living on a quiet tree-lined block […]
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Transcript: The Case of the Missing Park Posters: Ex-Ranger Hunts for New Deal-Era Art
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. DOUG LEEN (FORMER NATIONAL PARK RANGER): In 1971 I was a ranger in Grand Teton National Park. Once a year, everybody would show up in dirty clothes and we’d just clean up the park after the tourists leave, and I found an old poster in […]
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‘Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press’ Education Collection
This film, nominated for two 2021 Emmy Awards, is an hourlong examination of the national political press and its coverage of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Top reporters lift the veil on the former president’s toxic relationship with the national news media – and the role they played in the drama. The film explores questions […]
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Contemporary Indigenous History Collection
Explore short videos, a webinar and an interactive map that support lessons on Indigenous history and communities. Interactive Map: Indigenous Activism in the United States This interactive map enables students to examine key Indigenous activism events throughout the United States over the course of decades. It includes photos, videos and additional resources for further investigation. […]
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Finding New Insights and Pathways to Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an annual observance to raise awareness and promote understanding. In a health advisory released this week, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, said that loneliness poses serious mental and physical health risks that cost the health industry billions of dollars annually. In the advisory, he calls for Americans to strengthen the nation’s […]
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How Saba Kept Singing: Host a Screening
This new Retro Report documentary traces the journey of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia as he returns to Auschwitz and unlocks a secret from his past. “How Saba Kept Singing” was made in collaboration with HiddenLight Productions, Burnt Umber Productions and the WNET Group’s reporting initiative Exploring Hate. Sara Taksler is the director, writer and producer […]
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Labor Union Activism on the Rise, Recalling the Great Depression
This week, Starbucks workers around the United States took part in in a strike as part of their push to unionize. They’re among new groups of American workers pushing to form labor unions at restaurants, stores and warehouses as the economic pain of the pandemic sets in. In 2021 and ‘22, filings for new unions […]
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A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter Recalls Their Peril in Ukraine
As a child in Mariupol, Ukraine, 11-year-old Vanda Vasil’eva hid from the invading German army during World War II, surviving extermination in the Holocaust by bullets, which took the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews. Decades later Vanda was again dislocated by war. She died at 91, sheltering in a Mariupol basement during […]
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Facing Eviction Education Collection
“Facing Eviction” reveals how the Covid-19 eviction moratorium impacted landlords, sheriffs, judges, lawyers and social workers to give a holistic view of how tenants navigate a possible eviction. This introduction to “Facing Eviction” takes viewers inside the unfolding housing crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our unprecedented access to people struggling to stay in their homes shows […]
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Teaching About the Civil Rights Era with PBS Frontline and Retro Report
Retro Report and PBS Frontline invite educators interested in teaching about the civil rights era to attend an exclusive, in-person event in New York City on Dec. 13. The event will showcase teaching resources and student activities connected to “American Reckoning,” Frontline and Retro Report’s documentary about an untold story of the civil rights movement, […]
