1. Montgomery
Air date: 2014-07-01 · 30 min
The Season 2 premiere features organic chemist Percy Julian; civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin; and boxer Joe Louis.
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Season 2.
10 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.
2. New York
Air date: 2014-07-08 · 30 min
Sculptor Fréderic-Auguste Bartholdi designs the Statue of Liberty; Sybil Ludington takes her midnight ride during the American Revolution; Nellie Bly goes undercover in an asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Open episode 2 ↗3. American Music
Air date: 2014-07-15 · 30 min
Disc jockey Alan Freed plays rock and roll for the first time; Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from Johnny Cash; music producer Sylvia Robinson assembles the Sugarhill Gang.
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Air date: 2014-07-22 · 30 min
Abraham Lincoln tries to stay alive on the way to his inauguration; Francis Scott Key pens "The Star-Spangled Banner"; Edgar Allan Poe clashes with Rufus Griswold.
Open episode 4 ↗5. Charleston
Air date: 2014-07-29 · 30 min
Charles Sumner is beaten on the Senate floor; Judge J. Waties Waring advocates for civil rights; a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate ship and sails it to his freedom.
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Air date: 2014-08-05 · 30 min
Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers publisher William Randolph Hearst; animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse; Nancy Reagan urges her husband to get into politics.
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Air date: 2014-08-12 · 30 min
British explorer James Cook socializes with the natives in Hawaii; future senator Daniel Inouye fights in World War II; surfer Eddie Aikau earns a reputation for riding big waves.
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Air date: 2014-08-19 · 30 min
Baron von Steuben whips Washington's army into shape, longtime friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson break ties, and Benedict Arnold becomes a British spy.
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Air date: 2014-08-26 · 30 min
Frances Cleveland uses her public image for good, Edith Wilson acts as president after her husband has a stroke, and Dolley Madison saves American artifacts from destruction.
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Air date: 2014-09-02 · 30 min
Frances Cleveland uses her public image for good, Edith Wilson acts as president after her husband has a stroke, and Dolley Madison saves American artifacts from destruction.
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