Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

- Season 1

(2006)

The Civil War battle of Antietam in September 1862, was for its time the bloodiest single day in American history. For Americans in that era, the scale of the carnage was as incomprehensible as 9-11 was to those of our generation. This film explores the battle and its impact on American thinking

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A personal written appeal signed by Albert Einstein to the US President sets the stage for the development of nuclear weapons.

The assassination of President William McKinley enables the rise of reformer Theodore Roosevelt to the Presidency.

The appearance of Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show legitimizes rock and roll and youth culture which changes US culture.

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The trial of a teacher charged with teaching evolution in a public school escalates the conflict of religious faith and freedom of thought in America

At the height of the Gilded Age, steel workers fight for their rights against the oppressive working conditions of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel, resulting in the Homestead Strike of 1892.

The murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement.

An armed uprising shortly after the American Revolutionary War sparks the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America