France's recent decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves (hijab) in public schools--a law widely perceived by Muslims to be an undemocratic expression. Wide Angle explores this conflict in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys. Also featured is the local high school principal, Ghislaine Hudson, a member of the commission charged with reviewing the use of religious symbols. Professor Fawaz Gerges also discusses secularism in France. Unemployment...

Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new...

Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...

Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1960-1964. Looks at the Cuban missile crisis; the Bay of Pigs; the Berlin Wall; the civil war in Vietnam; civil rights; John Glenn's space flight; Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Hitchcock's classic thriller, Psycho; the Kennedy/Nixon debates; James Meredith enrolled in...

Looks at the World War II-era treatment of Japanese Americans as seen through the contemporary lens of the post-9/11 world. As the U.S. government fights a "war on terrorism" its tactics and policies have caused concern for some Americans of Japanese descent, who were interned in concentration camps during WWII. No new concentration camps have materialized, but mass deportations and detentions, particularly of Arab and Muslim immigrants in America,...

"Security measures have changed the way we live. Surveillance cameras arguably help to solve crimes, keep employee theft in check, deter crimnals, and some cases, replace the physical presence of law enforcement. But does their presence pose a threat to privacy?"--Container.

Said is an Arab, Hubert is black, Vinz is a Jew. Each of them need to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital.

Walter Cronkite, using archival news footage and revealing interviews, reminisces about his career in journalism covering major events in recent history.

This book highlights ten memorable female trailblazers.