Ten survivors reflect on the events and fallout of 9/11 more than two decades later

Desert Shield and Storm ushered in faster, precise warfare seen worldwide in real time

Fight for Independence during the formative years 1775 - 1776

An in-depth look at how exclusionary zoning and housing discrimination took root

The classified Rohna attack is WWII’s best-kept secret… it’s time to tell the truth.

The road that tested a convoy—and set America on a new path

The amazing story of a man who changed the world with his pen

An enslaved person who escapes and the people who helped him along the Underground Railroad

How one community and disenfranchised tribal leaders worked to reconcile the past

The stories and contributions of Black jockeys, trainers, owners, grooms, and exercise riders in the 1800s.

Fighting for workers’ rights during America’s Gilded Age

Learning from pandemics of the past

Inventing America brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show before a live audience. In Episode 3, "Liberty for All," James Madison (John Douglas Hall), Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker), Alexander Hamilton (Hal Bidlack) and Patrick Henry (Richard Schumann) reveal the conflicts and infighting behind the new U.S. Constitution and how that led to the Bill of Rights. The program features a Q&A with college students in which the Founders apply the Bill of Rights to our own time. It concludes with Henry's famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech that inspired the idea of America in the first place.

A follow-up to Inventing America: Making a Nation, Inventing America: Making a Government brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show filmed before a live audience. Episode 2 tells the story behind the Constitutional Convention of 1787 – four momentous months that changed the world. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris and George Washington discuss the conflicts and compromises that led to creating the world’s most enduring republic. While imagined and presented as a retrospective, the conversation is based on fact, using the Founders’ actual words. Created by Milton Nieuwsma and filmed by Zach Liniewski and Philip A. Lane, two-time Emmy Award-winners from previous collaborations, the show was recorded at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The host and moderator is Fred Johnson, associate professor of history at Hope College. The director is John K.V. Tammi, professor emeritus of theatre and founder of Hope College’s acclaimed Summer Repertory Theatre.

Inventing America: Making a Nation brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show filmed before a live audience. Episode 1 features three delegates to the Second Continental Congress—Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker), Benjamin Franklin (John Hamant) and John Adams (Sam Goodyear)—discussing the lead-up to the Declaration of Independence. A fourth delegate, John Dickinson (Rodney TeSlaa), who refused to sign the document, reveals the conflict behind this historic event..