Daniel Okrent

Baseball

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of t...

Prohibition

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the en...

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants', but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolds in Euro...

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

This two-part sequel to the 1994 series Baseball continues the story of America's national pastime from the ear...

Sweet and Lowdown

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute...

After Newtown: Guns in America

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to...

Kong's New York, 1933