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America's Timber

In the early 1900s, timber was an essential industrial product in the US. Gifford Pinchot and President Theodore Roosevelt worried that unless America’s forests were protected and regulated, the nation’s forests would soon disappear. "The Big Burn" premieres February 3 on PBS American Experience.
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Revisit the 1970s Love Canal disaster and how the battle for justice, led mostly by women, created the basis for the federal Superfund program.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed urban communities across the country in 1967.

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