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Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Dodd,_Chris
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Christopher Dodd, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/dodd.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Edwards,_John
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: John Edwards, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/edwards.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Gilmore,_Jim
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Jim Gilmore, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/gilmore.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Gingrich,_Newt
Title: PBS Frontline - The Long March of Newt Gingrich
Description: Complete transcript of the 1996 documentary describing how Newt Gingrich led the GOP to become the majority party. Includes his personal, professional and political background with interviews, timeline, his work and writings, his reading list, and bibliography.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Gingrich,_Newt
Title: PBS - Commanding Heights
Description: Transcript of the spring 2001 interview with Newt Gingrich for the PBS documentary about globalization, world trade and economic development.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_newtgingrich.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Gingrich,_Newt
Title: PBS Frontline - Hot Politics
Description: Edited transcript of a February 2007 interview with Newt Gingrich about global warming, the science, why the government hasn't tackled it, and Al Gore's book 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/gingrich.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Giuliani,_Rudy
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Rudy Giuliani, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/giuliani.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Gravel,_Mike
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Mike Gravel, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/gravel.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Huckabee,_Mike
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Mike Huckabee, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/huckabee.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Hunter,_Duncan
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Duncan Hunter, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/hunter.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Kucinich,_Dennis
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Dennis Kucinich, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/kucinich.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / McCain,_John
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: John McCain, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/mccain.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Obama,_Barack / News_and_Media
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008 The Primaries: Barack Obama, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories during the presidential primary campaign.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/obama.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Obama,_Barack / News_and_Media
Title: PBS NOW - Anatomy of a Smear
Description: Documentary on sorting fact from fiction in the 2008 election campaign uses 'Barack Obama is a Muslim' as an example of how misinformation is spread.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/401/political-smears.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Paul,_Ron
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Ron Paul, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/paul.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Richardson,_Bill
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Bill Richardson, Democrat
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/richardson.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Romney,_Mitt
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Mitt Romney, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/romney.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / Candidates / Tancredo,_Tom
Title: PBS NewsHour - Vote 2008: Tom Tancredo, Republican
Description: Provides biography, interviews and news stories.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/candidates/tancredo.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / News_and_Media
Title: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - Vote 2008
Description: Coverage of the presidential elections provides news stories and analysis, States to Watch, candidates and issues. Includes RSS, podcasts, lesson plans and archives.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / News_and_Media
Title: PBS - NOW: Election 2008 Democracy Toolkit
Description: Provides tools and information on voting safeguards, campaign funding, fact checking, polling, news media, campaign calendar and FAQs.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/now/election-2008/voter-tools.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / President / 2008 / News_and_Media
Title: PBS - Frontline: Choice 2008
Description: 20th anniversary broadcast of The Choice examines the personal and political biographies of Barack Obama and John McCain and goes behind the headlines to discover how they arrived at this moment and what their candidacies say about America.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / Voter_Registration_and_Information
Title: PBS In the Mix - Political Literacy: Sifting Thru The Spin
Description: Online companion to this episode of the teen series.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/politics_index.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Elections / Voter_Registration_and_Information
Title: PBS: By the People
Description: Includes analysis, databases, video, and other educational resources on how to participate in the US elections.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/elections/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Judicial_Branch / Supreme_Court
Title: Supreme Court Watch
Description: Supreme Court news from PBS.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/law/supreme_court/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Law / Constitution / 14th_Amendment
Title: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - 14th Amendment Ratified
Description: From Public Broadcasting Corporation. Includes videos, narratives, documents and events.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_14th.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Legislative_Branch / Senate / History
Title: League of Nations
Description: Woodrow Wilson struggled with the U.S. Senate to try to establish the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_league.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Legislative_Branch / Senate / History
Title: Huey Long from PBS
Description: He was hailed as a champion of the poor and reviled as a dictator. Louisiana's Huey Long rose to Governor and U.S. Senator on a platform of social reform and justice, all the while employing graft and corruption to get what he wanted.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/hueylong/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Government / Legislative_Branch / Senate / Members / McCain,_John_[R-AZ]
Title: Tavis Smiley - John McCain
Description: The Senator explains why he wrote his book, Character is Destiny. Includes streaming audio and transcript.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200601/20060106.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Illinois / Government / Federal / US_House_of_Representatives / Former_Members / Rahm_Emanuel_[D-05]
Title: PBS Frontline: The Clinton Years - Interview with Rahm Emanuel
Description: Chris Bury interviews Emanuel about his years with Bill Clinton as finance director for the 1992 campaign and then political director and senior advisor at the White House until October 1998.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/emmanuel.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Illinois / Localities / C / Chicago / Society_and_Culture / History
Title: Chicago: City of the Century
Description: PBS American Experience Online's companion site to the television series. Includes maps, teacher's guide, and trivia.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Kansas / Society_and_Culture / History / Civil_War
Title: Bleeding Kansas - PBS
Description: History of life in Kansas after a bill, with the backing of Stephen A. Douglas, became law on May 30, 1854.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Louisiana / Localities / N / New_Orleans / News_and_Media / Television
Title: WLAE TV
Description: PBS with complete listing of programs, and the local cable channels for specific areas of Louisiana
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wlae/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Massachusetts / Localities / B / Boston / Society_and_Culture / History / American_Revolution / Boston_Tea_Party
Title: The Boston Tea Party
Description: Video and audio clips by scholar Pauline Maier for PBS.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/popup_teaparty.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Massachusetts / Society_and_Culture / Ethnicity / African_American
Title: Anthony Burns Captured
Description: Story of escaped slave who boarded a ship from Alexandria, Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts to find freedom.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2915.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Minnesota / Society_and_Culture / History / Biography / Wellstone,_Paul_David
Title: Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002
Description: Profile of the late Senator from Minnesota, who was locked in a tight election race at the time of his death. [NewsHour]
Location: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/mn_wellstone.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Mississippi / Society_and_Culture / History
Title: American Experience | Fatal Flood
Description: Film chronicle's personal experiences and race based conflicts in the Delta during the 1927 flood. Includes special features, timeline, maps, and teacher's guide.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Nevada / Travel_and_Tourism / Parks / National_Parks_and_Monuments / Hoover_Dam_and_Lake_Mead_National_Recreation_Area
Title: American Experience Hoover Dam
Description: Provides a chronology of the Hoover Dam, a searchable database of the people and events that led to the dam's creation and a teacher's guide with maps.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hoover/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_Jersey / Localities / W / Weehawken / Society_and_Culture
Title: The Duel
Description: Companion site to the PBS film on the famous Hamilton-Burr duel which took place in here in Weehawken.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/index.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_Mexico / Society_and_Culture / History / Historic_Sites
Title: PBS - The West
Description: Provides information on historic sites in New Mexico including Albuquerque, Glorietta Pass, Santa Fe, Taos, and Valverde with maps.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/states/newmexico/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_Mexico / Society_and_Culture / History / Native_Americans / Pueblo
Title: The Pueblo Revolt
Description: Text of a letter written by the governor Don Antonio de Otermin from New Mexico as to what happened to him since September 8, 1680, when the Indians revolted.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/pueblo.htm
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_Mexico / Society_and_Culture / History / Personalities
Title: William Bent
Description: Information about the life of William Bent (1809-1869) and the trading companies he and his family operated.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/bent.htm
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_Mexico / Society_and_Culture / History / Personalities / Kit_Carson
Title: PBS - The West - Kit Carson
Description: Biography of Kit Carson (1809-1868) from PBS.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/carson.htm
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / New_York / Localities / N / New_York_City / Manhattan / Arts_and_Entertainment / Architecture / World_Trade_Center / Collapse_Analysis
Title: Nova Online: Why the Towers Fell / Building on Ground Zero
Description: Investigates the causes of the collapse. Includes interviews with survivors and engineers, information on the design of the building and recommendations for future buildings.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / North_Carolina / Localities / B / Black_Mountain / Education
Title: American Masters - Black Mountain College
Description: Background on the school, its faculty and students.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/black_mountain_college.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / North_Carolina / News_and_Media / Television
Title: Public Television Stations in North Carolina
Description: Offers information on and links to state-supported public TV stations.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html?dest=/stationfinder/index.html&step=2&edit_st=y&state=NC
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Oregon / Society_and_Culture / Genealogy / Pioneers
Title: In Search of the Oregon Trail
Description: Examines the myths and the facts from the history of the Oregon Trail.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Pennsylvania / Localities / H / Homestead / Society_and_Culture / Homestead_Strike
Title: The American Experience: Andrew Carnegie - The Homestead Strike
Description: Describes the violent 1892 strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, which tarnished his reputation as a benevolent employer. From the companion site to the PBS program.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Society_and_Culture / Issues / Human_Rights
Title: Clarence Aaron
Description: This 23-year-old college student received three life sentences in a drug conspiracy trial based on the testimony of informants and no other evidence.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/aaron.html
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Society_and_Culture / Issues / Human_Rights / Prison
Title: Frontline Primer
Description: How the "Drug War" has led to numerous imprisonments with little or no evidence except from "snitches," reducing their own sentences by fingering innocent (often black) people.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/primer/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Society_and_Culture / Politics / Issues / Health_Care_Reform / Alternative_Systems
Title: PBS - Frontline: Sick Around the World
Description: Documentary on how five capitalist democracies - Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, the UK - handle healthcare for their citizens. Includes full video and transcript, interviews, analysis, Q&A, teacher's guide and additional resources.
Location: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/