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#HustleAndFly: Amelia Earhart on Instagram

What would Amelia Earhart’s Instagram account have looked like? American Experience decided to find out.

How a Commercial Became an Anthem

Is “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” the…

JFK: Intimate Memories of an Icon

Marking the 35th president’s 100th birthday with stories from those…

The Casual Excellence of Ella Fitzgerald

The “First Lady of Jazz” expanded the parameters of black women’s art.

By Emily J. Lordi

An American Nurse in France

Entries from the diary of a World War I nurse.

Words by Helen Dore Boylston & Illustrations by Ste Johnson

American Nurses in World War I: Under-Appreciated and Under Fire

By Marian Moser Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H.

The Two Lives of Eugene Bullard

How the first black combat pilot escaped America, became a hero in France, and ended up an elevator operator in New York.

When Wilson Asked for War

One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to declare war on Germany, bringing America into the messy, tragic conflict it had long resisted. The speech he…

The World’s Experience

After fighting for democracy overseas in World War I, African American soldiers returned determined to fight for democracy at home.

Master of American Propaganda

How George Creel sold the Great War to America, and America to the world.

By Nicholas J. Cull