Program / Event Details

In one high-energy hour, students will come face to face with Columbus, the Pilgrims, the Salem “witches”, the Boston Tea Partiers, the framers of the Constitution, the Missouri Compromisers, Levi Strauss and his Blue Jeans, and the seeds of the Civil War – and that’s just in the first 30 minutes! Add in Thomas Edison, the invention of movies, WW I and II, the Great Depression, FDR, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Women’s Rights movement, hippies, Watergate, Reagan and Gorbachev, and the invention of the Internet, and you have a fun – but still useful – overview of the greatest social experiment in world history. ***Please note that slavery and historical ethnic and gender discrimination ARE dealt with in this show, along with the efforts of others to end them and build a country with freedom and equality for all.