10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America - Season 1

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes10
DatesApr 9, 2006 - Apr 13, 2006

Episodes

Sept 17, 1862 – Antietam
Season 1Episode 160 min

Sept 17, 1862 – Antietam

Part 1 recalls the Battle of Antietam, the costly Civil War conflict fought on September 17, 1862, that allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Apr 9, 2006
May 26, 1637 – Massacre at Mystic
Season 1Episode 260 min

May 26, 1637 – Massacre at Mystic

Part 2 recalls the 1637 clash between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley, where English forces burned the Pequot fort at Mystic and killed those who tried to flee.

Apr 9, 2006
July 16, 1939 – Einstein's Letter
Season 1Episode 360 min

July 16, 1939 – Einstein's Letter

Part 3 examines the letter sent by Albert Einstein to FDR in the summer of 1939 informing the president of the possibility of nuclear weapons and asking him to begin the research and development of new weapons based on nuclear chain reactions.

Apr 10, 2006
Sept 6, 1901 – Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley
Season 1Episode 460 min

Sept 6, 1901 – Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley

Part 4 recalls the assassination of President William McKinley, who was shot in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. McKinley died a week later.

Apr 10, 2006
Sept 9, 1956 – When America Was Rocked
Season 1Episode 560 min

Sept 9, 1956 – When America Was Rocked

Part 5 recalls Elvis Presley's 1956 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and its powerful effect on popular culture.

Apr 11, 2006
Jan 24, 1848 – Gold Rush
Season 1Episode 660 min

Jan 24, 1848 – Gold Rush

Part 6 chronicles the California Gold Rush, initiated when gold was found at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 and thousands of fortune seekers began migrating west.

Apr 11, 2006
July 21, 1925 – Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul
Season 1Episode 760 min

July 21, 1925 – Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

Part 7 recalls the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial of John T. Scopes, a Tennessee high-school teacher who taught evolution in defiance of the Butler Act. The courtroom was the stage for legal powerhouses Clarrence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.

Apr 12, 2006
July 6, 1892 – The Homestead Strike
Season 1Episode 860 min

July 6, 1892 – The Homestead Strike

Part 8 examines the 1892 strike at a steel plant in Homestead, Pa., where workers clashed with Pinkerton guards in a fight that left men dead and wounded.

Apr 12, 2006
June 21, 1964 – Freedom Summer
Season 1Episode 960 min

June 21, 1964 – Freedom Summer

Part 9 recalls the 1964 murders of civil-rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Miss., by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Apr 13, 2006
Jan 25, 1787 – Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Jan 25, 1787 – Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War

Recalling Shays' Rebellion in 1786, in which farmers, led by Daniel Shays, stormed a Massachusetts courthouse in protest of farm foreclosures and to stop the imprisonment of debtors.

Apr 13, 2006

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