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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America Season 1 Episodes

  • 2006-2006
  • 1 Season
  • History
  • Documentary
  • TVPG
  • Watchlist
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This docuseries explores the depths of some of the world's lesser-known moments in history. Each captured moment is a pivotal moment that helped forge and define the character of America. In each episode, narrators share their expertise. Events that are touched upon include the very first slaughter of Native Americans by English settlers in 1637, and the civil rights movements of 1964. These issues show how they created a ripple effect throughout American history.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

10 Episodes 2006 - 0

Episode 1

Antietam

Sun, Apr 9, 2006 60 mins

Part 1 recalls the Battle of Antietam, the costly Civil War conflict fought on September 17, 1862, that allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Episode 2

Massacre at Mystic

Sun, Apr 9, 2006 60 mins

Part 2 recalls the 1637 clash between English settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River Valley, where English forces burned the Pequot fort at Mystic and killed those who tried to flee.

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Episode 3

Einstein's Letter

Mon, Apr 10, 2006 60 mins

Part 3 examines the letter sent by Albert Einstein to FDR in the summer of 1939 informing the president of the possibility of nuclear weapons and asking him to begin the research and development of new weapons based on nuclear chain reactions.

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Episode 4

Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley

Mon, Apr 10, 2006 60 mins

Part 4 recalls the assassination of President William McKinley, who was shot in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. McKinley died a week later.

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Episode 5

When America Was Rocked

Tue, Apr 11, 2006 60 mins

Part 5 recalls Elvis Presley's 1956 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and its powerful effect on popular culture.

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Episode 6

Gold Rush

Tue, Apr 11, 2006 60 mins

Part 6 chronicles the California Gold Rush, initiated when gold was found at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 and thousands of fortune seekers began migrating west.

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Episode 7

Scopes: The Battle over America's Soul

Wed, Apr 12, 2006 60 mins

Part 7 recalls the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial of John T. Scopes, a Tennessee high-school teacher who taught evolution in defiance of the Butler Act. The courtroom was the stage for legal powerhouses Clarrence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.

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Episode 8

The Homestead Strike

Wed, Apr 12, 2006 60 mins

Part 8 examines the 1892 strike at a steel plant in Homestead, Pa., where workers clashed with Pinkerton guards in a fight that left men dead and wounded. Martin Sheen narrates.

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Episode 9

Freedom Summer

Thu, Apr 13, 2006 60 mins

Part 9 recalls the 1964 murders of civil-rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Miss., by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Episode 10

Shays' Rebellion: America's First Civil War

Thu, Apr 13, 2006 60 mins

Conclusion. Recalling Shays' Rebellion in 1786, in which farmers, led by Daniel Shays, stormed a Massachusetts courthouse in protest of farm foreclosures and to stop the imprisonment of debtors.

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