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The Environment

The Environment

Since pre-colonial times, Americans' relationship to the natural world has shaped politics, policy, commerce, entertainment and culture. In this collection, delve into our complicated history with the environment through American Experience films exploring wide-ranging topics, from our struggles to exert dominion over nature to our attempts to understand and protect it.

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The story of housewives who led a grassroots movement to galvanize the Superfund Bill.
Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history.
The woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
The Dust Bowl brought drought, dust, disease and death to the Midwest for nearly a decade.