American Experience: Season 25
Season 25 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Experience Season 24.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 25 Progress Shield
The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838
Jan 8, 2013 · 55 min
The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against cha
The Abolitionists: 1838-1854
Jan 15, 2013 · 55 min
See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory
Jan 22, 2013 · 55 min
Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Henry Ford
Jan 29, 2013 · 55 min
An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth
Silicon Valley
Feb 5, 2013 · 55 min
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration an
War of the Worlds
Oct 29, 2013 · 55 min
A broadcast that struck fear into an already anxious nation, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast was the most famous alien invasion that never happened.
JFK (Part 1)
Nov 11, 2013 · 55 min
A two-part profile of John F. Kennedy begins with his early years, detailing the health challenges he faced; his heroism after his PT boat was hit by an enemy destroyer during Worl
JFK (Part 2)
Nov 12, 2013 · 55 min
Conclusion. John F. Kennedy's White House years, including the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Cuban Missile Crisis; handling of civil rights; and decision to travel to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963