History
El Pueblo History Museum debuts new Black history exhibit
The traveling exhibit features local and state Black history and will be on display through Juneteenth.
The Great Famine
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
The Great Famine
Season 23 Episode 8 | 52m 20s | CC
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA.
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