🦃 Need to brush up on the history of the first Thanksgiving? Watch The Pilgrims and our companion conversation, The Myth of Thanksgiving.
🍽️ Does your Thanksgiving host have questionable cooking skills? Watch The Poison Squad, bring some extra dishes, and be grateful you’re not at Dr. Harvey Wiley’s table!
🔍 Have a true-crime-obsessed niece you want to impress? Amaze her with your knowledge of the übermensch persona in the story of The Perfect Crime.
🇺🇸 Want to show off to your politics-obsessed uncle? Tell him the story of the only successful insurrection in American history from American Coup: Wilmington 1898.
✍🏾 Looking for a way to connect with your grandson who—against your advice—is double majoring in English and Anthropology? Watch Zora Neale Hurston: Finding A Space and you’ll have plenty to talk about.
💉 Worried you might be seated next to your anti-vax cousin? Learn the facts of a time when Americans banded together to end the spread of a debilitating disease in The Polio Crusade.
🌱 Never know what to discuss with your environmentalist sister-in-law? Watch Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal, Clearing the Air: The War on Smog, or Rachel Carson for some talking points!
🍗 Planning on taking home leftovers? Learn the history of the bowls that “burped” in Tupperware!
🥮 Need a last minute breakfast idea? Try this recipe for Amish Sticky Bunsas seen in our film The Amish: Shunned.
🎩 Love family games but not the fighting that always seems to follow? Instead of playing Monopoly, gather round to watch Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History for an equal amount of obsession and double-dealing.
