A floating city awash in elegance, the RMS QUEEN MARY in Long Beach California, remains one of the most famous ships in history. Join us as we take you back to the beginning with historic film footage and photographs. Watch this incredible ship being built and launched for service. At the time o...

Amidst the relentless horrors of World War I, a small Belgian town becomes the epicenter of an unimaginable struggle as soldiers from across the globe clash in the Battle of Ypres, where bravery and resilience are the only hope in a landscape scarred by poison gas and trench warfare. During the f...

Meet five veterans and learn their stories of service to our nation in conflicts from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Afghanistan. Tour Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery and learn about its history and its mission to serve America’s veterans.

Countless photos, archive footage, historic facts and 5 IWO JIMA veterans have all come together in this authentic account of the Battle of IWO JIMA.

Operation Detachment was to last 5 days and secure the island of IWO JIMA with its airfields. IWO JIMA veterans vividly describe their experience...

Esau and Janie Jenkins dedicated themselves to improving the lives of Black residents on Johns Island, South Carolina. Esau Jenkins purchased this Volkswagen van around 1967, and the couple used it in much of their work. The van's rugged character is a tribute to the selfless service of Esau and ...

Depression-era documentary which chronicles the exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River from the Civil War through the 1920s. From soil erosion - logging - floods this important film

Ford Motor Company introduced its Model TT - essentially a Model T with a heftier frame and drivetrain - in 1917. For built only three trucks the first year, but more than 40,000 TTs left the factor the following year. Join Curator of Transportation Matt Anderson from The Henry Ford to explore th...

Ona Judge Staines was enslaved and forced to work as Martha Washington's personal servant until she escaped from the President's Mansion in Philadelphia. Much is known of Judge's life in comparison to other people enslaved by the Washingtons as a result of newspaper interviews she gave in 1845 an...

George Washington's step-granddaughter is described in letters and other primary sources as a highly-skilled musician. We have several volumes of Nelly's hand-copied musical exercises, popular songs, and technical notes in the Mount Vernon collection. Dr. Joyce Lindorff studied these documents as...

Learn about Ben Franklin the teenager... swimmer and boxer. Young Benjamin Franklin, The Birth of Ingenuity.

Take your study of science, engineering and history to the pioneers of America’s space race. Learn from engineers who designed and built the Gemini capsule and the space systems that made it work. Hear how the Gemini program made the successes of the Apollo program possible

King George III was shrewder, more complex, and more intriguing than we often acknowledge. He was king for sixty years, from 1760 to 1820. He was frugal in an age of excess, pious at a time of impiety. He despised disorder and loathed disobedience.

In 1967, Esau and Janie B. Jenkins purchased the 1966 Volkswagen Deluxe Station Wagon currently on display in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, but their civil rights activism efforts began decades earlier.

Learn more about the Jenkins’ commitment to bettering the lives of residents i...

The story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which provides an account of the final mission of the crew of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In May 1943 it became the third U.S. Army Air Forces heavy bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe, but the first to return ...