#americanexperience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #americanexperience, aggregated by home.social.
-
As U.S. Prepares For 250th Celebrations, GBH’s ‘American Experience’ To Pause New Episodes Amid Public Media Federal Funding Cuts
#News #Politics #AmericanExperience #Corporationforpublicbroadcasting #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #GBH #PBS #WGBHhttps://deadline.com/2025/07/american-experience-pbs-federal-funding-1236468541/
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRb-0v5xfI&pp=ygUedGhlIGdpbGRlZCBhZ2UgLCBwYnMsIGV1Z2VuaWNz
#PBS #AmericanExperience #documentary
Tracing the rise of an ugly project based on crackpot pseudo-science that turned into a movement and used as an instrument of #socialcontrol.
-
In celebration of #Juneteenth, discover the history of the #AbolitionistMovement and the fight for #CivilRights with The Abolitionists Interview Collection, featuring interviews from the #AmericanExperience miniseries: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/the-abolitionists-interviews
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRb-0v5xfI
#TheEugenicsCrusade #PBS #AmericanExperience #history
This is the story of the ridiculous movement that turned a theory of heredity into a powerful & harmful instrument of #SocialControl
#eugenics #xenophobia #misogyny #racism #classism #nazisraus #gegennazis
-
"There are those who believe that if you will only #legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The #Democratic idea, however, had been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them." – #WilliamJenningsBryan
Will we ever fundamentally change?
#TheGildedAgePBS #AmericanExperience #PBS
-
"It's not your own fault. It is the fault of the way we have organized our #economy, the way we've allowed certain things to develop unchecked and uncontrolled. There's no reason for anybody to be poor in #America." – #ProgressAndPoverty, 1879, by #HenryGeorge
We've long known yet nothing fundamentally has changed.
#TheGildedAgePBS #PBS #AmericanExperience
#link: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-vote-part-1-3kph5d/?continuousplayautoplay=true
-
"...#Workers begin to say, 'If I, as a member of this #society lack the ability to pay my bills, and to feed my family, then I am not a free #citizen of a healthy #republic.'" (the next line is white #violence ignoring #slavery, a common theme in #PBS #documentaries).
#TheGildedAge #AmericanExperience
"#Gilded is not golden. Gilded has the sense of a patina covering something else...the rot underneath.
Nothing, fundamentally, has changed.