Reconnecting Roots
Reconnecting Roots is a series hosted by Gabriel McCauley. It's purpose is to bridge the generational gap by portraying American Progress through music, culture, and history over the last 150 years while highlighting what values we may be losing as time goes on.
- 2018-2024
- 4 seasons
- Documentary
Reconnecting Roots is a series hosted by Gabriel McCauley. It's purpose is to bridge the generational gap by portraying American Progress through music, culture, and history over the last 150 years while highlighting what values we may be losing as time goes on.
Season 4 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
Photography: Picture This
Sun, Sep 1, 2024
With a snap of a button, Americans started turning memories into art. But is a picture still worth a thousand words when we take millions of photos per day? How photography 'developed' from dark rooms to phone screens.
Episode 2
Food: Around the Table
Sun, Sep 8, 2024
Family recipes, company luncheons, and lots of useless gadgets. How mealtime has evolved to include more choices than most families can agree on.
Episode 3
Clothing: Cut from the Whole Cloth
Sun, Sep 15, 2024
How the clothing industry functions to fit the form of the American people.
Episode 4
Shelter: House & Home
Sun, Sep 22, 2024
How the typical American house was transformed to reimagine the American Dream and balance the nightmares that challenge home ownership.
Episode 5
Weather: Field to Forecast
Sun, Sep 29, 2024
How we use a worldwide network of weather forecasts to plan our days...and maybe even our lives.
Episode 6
Firefighting: Forging American Heroes
Sun, Oct 6, 2024
How fire safety transformed American cities and shaped the character of brave volunteers into ignoble nuisances, then into our most endeared heroes.
Episode 7
Journalism: Pressing American Issues
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
How the free press forged the American identity and equips the nation with a diversity of information and perspectives.
Episode 8
Games: Rolls to Roles
Sun, Oct 20, 2024
How the many different ways we play changed the game of American society.