American Experience

- Season 30

(2018)

A very special video segment featuring one of the Acclaimed president and spokesperson around Theodore Roosevelt.

Tells the story of the role played by American tycoon and physicist Alfred Lee Loomis and a team of British scientists at Loomis's home laboratory outside New York City in countervailing Nazi advances in nuclear fission during World War II.

As national wealth expands in the U.S. disparities among the nation's population spark debates that continue to rage in modern day America.

The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, NYC. The blast killed 30 people immediately and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast.

The origin, history, and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already there to become U.S. citizens.