Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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As our nation marks its first 250 years, "Sunday Morning" examines some of the most remarkable and unique historical, technological and cultural elements of the American experience.

0:00 Lady Liberty
8:44 The Louisiana Purchase
10:39 Yellowstone National Park
12:40 Coney Island
14:54 Woody Guthrie's music of America
23:15 Tobacco, America's first cash crop
25:47 The rise of union power
28:25 The Golden Gate Bridge
30:38 A history of the Constitution
38:28 Brown v. Board of Education
41:21 Bright Ideas: Thomas Edison
48:36 The White House
52:04 Ken Burns on America's continuing revolution
59:47 Raising the flag
1:05:02 Walter Issacson on the greatest sentence ever written
1:07:56 Thanksgiving
1:10:23 The New Year's Eve ball drop
1:12:40 Voice of the civil rights movement
1:21:11 On the record: The gramophone
1:24:04 George Washington and climate change
1:29:07 Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1:37:25 An ode to baseball
1:39:50 The Marshall Plan
1:42:26 Broadway's George M. Cohan

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