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"It is the handsomest building I ever saw," said Theodore Roosevelt in his speech inaugurating Pennsylvania's State Capitol Building. Conceived by architect Joseph Huston in 1901, the seat of the Commonwealth's government conjures up images of romantic palazzos in Florence. Visitors to the Capitol find numerous works of art worthy of nobility, earning it the moniker "Palace of Art."

A historic look at how Pennsylvania's natural resources helped transform the state into an industrial powerhouse. With economic booms and revolutions in natural resource extraction, came an environmental price. Pennsylvanians set about restoring the state's environmental riches and in the process helped shape the national conservation and environmental movements of the twentieth century.

The story of a third-generation Japanese American-owned fruit orchard in the shadow of Oregon’s Mount Hood. The Kiyokawas have been stewards of the land since 1911 and, over the next century, survived the forcible relocation of Japanese Americans to concentration camps during World War II and the continuing challenges of generational farming.

In 1906, Maryland was third in the nation to establish a state system of forests and parks. Fred W. Besley, appointed by Governor Edwin Warfield, became Maryland's first State Forester. During his 36 years, Besley created a model for scientific forest management and the Big Tree formula. Today, Marylanders are learning his lessons of forest conservation and listening to the music of the trees.

Told exclusively through the words of the project’s visionaries, leaders, artisans and champions who made “the impossible plausible”, Remember Us is the remarkable story of America's new national World War I Memorial--an exceptional vision brought to life by a diverse coalition of Americans who overcame all odds to deliver a stunning achievement a full century after the War That Changed the World.

The third part of “The Price of Silence” series explores the Black American flight to New Jersey during the Great Migration. Blacks hoped to find a better life in the region, devoid of the racism and discrimination they experienced in the South.

New Jersey, the Garden State, is known for its produce, but not for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. In this two-part...

By Parties Unknown explores the story of the violent lynching of four Black men in Russellville, Kentucky in 1908 after they were singled...

Wyoming, the last state in the Rocky Mountains to adopt Prohibition, struggled to stop the sale of illegal liquor. It created a new...

Emerging from her husband’s shadow after his sudden death in 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross left her mark as a tireless and innovative...

The inspiring true story of 20 women who raced across America in 1929. Wearing breeches and goggles during the day and ball gowns at...

Under Mr. Besley’s leadership, the State Board of Forestry in Maryland was the third in the nation to establish a system of forests,...

For more than 100 years, Zion National Park has captured the hearts of visitors and artists alike with its grandeur, vibrance, and...

Let Ohio Women Vote tells the story of the long fight for women’s suffrage in our state – a fight which created unpredictable alliances...

A look back at the history of the Women's Right To Vote Movement in Washington State.

Northwest Now visits the village of Home, Washington – once a turn of the century anarchist colony, now a town steeped in the rich...

Columbus Neighborhoods - a YouTube digital series: WOSU takes us behind the scenes and into the archives of the Ohio History Connection...

Experience U.S. history through the eyes of peers from the past with Mission US, WNET's free, award-winning interactive gaming series...

Learn about the origins of Wisconsin's state government, and explore the ever-changing process behind the legal system that guides us as...

This documentary delves into the remarkable life of Junius Groves, once an enslaved man from Edwardsville, Kansas who rose to become...