History, Hobby, and Bio

Stacey Dooley moves into an African big-game hunting lodge to train for two weeks with die-hard trophy hunters. Living and breathing a hunter's life, she finds some surprising people and points of view in this controversial world. She learns how to shoot, track and harvest big game, all the while exposed to her mentors' compelling pro-hunting logic.

This cinematic journey uncovers the shifting attitudes towards Native Americans, oscillating between the revered "Noble Savage" and the feared "Savage Savage." As the U.S. expands westward, encroaching on Native lands, tensions surge, leading to the strategic establishment of the Bozeman Trail through Sioux territory. Chief Red Cloud's fierce resistance culminates in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a significant but fleeting victory for the Sioux. However,...

Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it? Follow the innovations, successes and failures that made this building possible.

In the third episode, Simon discovers surprises in Istanbul as it rose to become the imperial capital and Islam's most powerful city. Visiting the great mosques and palaces built by the Ottoman emperors, he tells the stories behind them-of royal concubines, murderous bodyguards, and sultans both the powerful and the depraved. He shows how the Christians, Muslims, and Jews of the city once co-existed before the waves of nationalist rebellions brought...

This program looks into the thousands of Ukrainian children who were taken and held in Russia. It reveals stories of families searching for their missing children, authorities investigating alleged abductions, and teenagers who escaped and say they were subjected to Russian propaganda.

Some of the most innovative and mindboggling cars are not on the streets--they are helping the military pound the pavement and cross terrain around the world.

The pressure builds as contestants tackle the first round of this national civics competition. A student from Virginia casts his first vote for his father, a candidate and also the coach of a rival team. West Virginia students remain steadfast in their plan to overcome hardship and attend college. One team must persevere after a deadly shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Learn how to craft a refined, clean, and light Shaker-inspired hall table out of gorgeous cherry using mostly hand tools. From the elegant tapered legs, to the undercut beveled edge along the top, Tom McLaughlin shows you how this table offers a chance to get back to basics with extraordinary results. Techniques include using a hand plane, skimming, creating basic mortise and tenons, and chiseling pocket holes.

It took three-quarters of a century, and a bloody civil war, before the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 made equality a constitutional right and gave the federal government the power to enforce it. The far-reaching changes created by that amendment established new notions of citizenship, equal protection, due process and personal liberty. Today, those notions are being used to fight for same-sex marriage, voting rights, affirmative action and immigration...

HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft, celebrating the joy of music and the creation of handcrafted instruments. Featuring accordion maker Marc Savoy and the Savoy family, bow maker Susan Lipkins, luthier Doug Naselroad and the Appalachian Artisan Center Culture of Recovery Program, and artist Richard Jolley, whose monumental glass and steel sculpture inspired a violin concerto.