American Experience

Philbrick's writing has also appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe.

He has appeared on The Today Show, The Morning Show, Dateline, PBS's American Experience, The News Hour, C-SPAN, NPR, and most recently, how cool is this, Ken Burns' The American Revolution.

He was an All-American sailor at Brown University and lives on Nantucket Island, where he co-founded the Egan Maritime Institute.

Nathaniel Philbrick joins us right after the break to discuss The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.

Labreck is an executive producer on the Emmy-winning documentary Patrice the Movie and the upcoming Apple TV biopic Being Human about disability rights leader Judy Heumann.

He also directed Change Not Charity, the Americans with Disabilities Act for PBS's American Experience.

He co-founded Forward Doc, supporting documentary filmmakers with disabilities, and the One in Four Coalition, focused on advocacy and narrative film and television.

Labrecta is a Disability Futures Fellow and a member of AMPAS, the Television Academy, and BAFTA.

So let's get into it.

It's an episode of American Experience, and I'm going to give a big, we've done a couple American Experiences here.

Old Guy Complaint, which I think you and I have identified.

It's very hard to find an American Experience online because they're not categorized on the streamers as American Experience.

They are sort of marketed as individual movies on whatever topic they are, because they are very well produced.

high-quality documentaries.

And that's very much what I saw happening here.

So on September 16th, 1920, an explosion struck outside the headquarters of J.P. Morgan & Company, the world's most powerful banking institution.

Thurman Wilkins's classic Cherokee Tragedy, The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People and Jill Norgren's The Cherokee Cases, Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty.

I'll also say there's a very good episode of the documentary from PBS and the American Experience called We Shall Remain that focuses on the history of Cherokee removal.

It's called the episode's called The Trail of Tears.

I use this documentary with students and I actually have used it with students since I taught seventh graders.

Do

you have a favorite episode of the American experience?

Um, there's one clip I used to send around to people all the time.

That was the, the, the Vietnam.

Those Tiger Army guys.

Yeah, this one is about America 1900.

So the American experience there, it's a repeat, but they're airing it because it's like, let's look at the turn of the last century.

That's all they are.

But I have another thing to talk about.

On PBS, they have NOVA, and they have a program called American Experience.

They had two good ones recently.

One of them was about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Tonight on PBS at 8 is Finding Your Roots.

At 9 is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The American Experience.

And at 10 o'clock on PBS is American Masters.

On Fox Tonight at 8, going until 10, is Kitchen Nightmares.