America's Monuments | The Mansion of the King | 5
Few historic residences are more synonymous with their owners than Graceland. Purchased by Elvis Presley in 1957, the stately Memphis mansion was the heart of his private world and his most prized pos...
24 Mars 202140min
America's Monuments | The Longest Bridge | 4
In the early 1920s, San Francisco was a picturesque city on a narrow, isolated peninsula. Known for its scenic, natural beauty, it had the potential to become one of America’s leading metropolises. Bu...
17 Mars 202136min
America's Monuments | Four Faces | 3
In 1927, workers began blasting granite rock off a towering cliff in South Dakota’s Black Hills. It was the start of an arduous 14-year struggle to carve the portraits of four American presidents into...
10 Mars 202140min
America’s Monuments | A Passage Through Panama | 2
For centuries, sailors and merchants dreamed of finding a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the narrow isthmus of Central America. But no natural passage existed. To get ships acr...
3 Mars 202138min
America’s Monuments | The Colossus of New York Harbor | 1
It’s perhaps the most iconic of American monuments -- the Statue of Liberty. A towering 305-foot sculpture of copper and steel that is synonymous with American values of liberty, freedom and self-dete...
24 Feb 202139min
Great Chicago Fire | Out of the Ashes | 4
After the 1871 fire destroyed a third of their city, Chicagoans wanted to do more than rebuild. They wanted to envision a new kind of American city. That included everything from changes to fire codes...
17 Feb 202132min
Great Chicago Fire | The Great Rebuilding | 3
As dawn broke on October 10, 1871, the dazed survivors of the Great Chicago Fire stumbled through their burned and battered city. A 30-hour inferno had reduced Chicago to ashes.Homes and business were...
10 Feb 202140min
Great Chicago Fire | Fleeing the Flames | 2
Just before midnight on October 8, 1871, the inferno that had ravaged Chicago’s West Side leapt the Chicago River. A wall of flames surged toward downtown, threatening to devour Chicago’s most magnifi...
3 Feb 202135min
