An interracial couple takes a plantation tour. (13 minutes)
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Act One: The Miseducation of Castlemont High
A bunch of high school students gets taken to see a movie that’s supposed to teach them about history.
Act Four: Rocket Boy
Paul Zimmer is eighty-three years old now, and he’s still haunted by something he saw in his teens.
Act Two: History is Not a Toy
There’s a museum in Baltimore that was created to memorialize the black experience in America.
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Simulated Worlds
Civil War reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle, and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America.
Harper High School - Part One
We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.