The violent 1970 clash between student protestors and construction workers in downtown NY. On May 8, 1970, construction workers in NYC violently clashed with students protesting the Vietnam War, ...

Watch a preview of Hard Hat Riot. Watch a preview of Hard Hat Riot. Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the ...

Lindsay speaks to the media at New York’s City Hall in 1966. John Bottega/World Telegraph & Sun/Library of Congress. Few mayors embodied both the glamour and the grit of New York like John V. Lindsay.

On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students demonstrating against ...

CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...

The committee that offers vaccine advice to the nation’s top public health agency voted Friday against recommending the updated COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 6 months or older, instead leaving the ...

A U.S. citizen was caught in the middle of the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement. Andrea Velez says she was wrongfully arrested this past summer in downtown Los ...

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In 1967, following a summer of racial unrest in cities across the U.S., Martin Luther King, Jr. declared that “a riot is the language of the unheard.” What exactly were those unheard Americans trying ...

Friends of the show, The Bergamot are dropping a new album called "Give Love Away" and celebrating it with a concert at The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 19th @ 8pm. Nathaniel ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...

Check out Andrew Holter's appraisal of a Liberace's American marble-top pier table, ca. 1860, in Maryland Zoo, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...