• 2007
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The States

Summary The States takes a detailed look at what makes each of the 50 states special. Each episode features five states each and has interviews with native celebrities talking about their home state. View more details

  • 2007
  • 1h

The States

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 24, 2007

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Actuality Productions

Summary The States takes a detailed look at what makes each of the 50 states special. Each episode features five states each and has interviews with native celebrities talking about their home state. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 24, 2007

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Actuality Productions

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The States (2007)

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Episode 1 • Jan 24, 2007
California, North Carolina, Kansas, New Hampshire, West Virginia
The discovery of gold at California's Sutter's Mill in 1848; North Carolina's tobacco fields; Wichita, Kan.; open rebellion in America's Revolutionary War; the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia.
Episode 2 • Apr 27, 2007
Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Iowa, Delaware
The discovery of oil at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas; Puritans escape religious persecution in Massachusetts; nine black high-school students try to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
Episode 3 • May 04, 2007
New York, Louisiana, Oregon, New Mexico, Vermont
The origins of New York City at New Amsterdam; the origins of the Cajun culture; the Oregon Trail; William "Billy the Kid" Bonney; Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
Episode 4 • May 11, 2007
New Jersey, Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Alaska
George Washington crosses the Delaware River; the Grand Canyon; the Kentucky Derby; the Oklahoma Territory; the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Episode 5 • May 18, 2007
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Hawaii, South Carolina, Montana
Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa.; Garrison Keillor and his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio program; the Confederate sub H.L. Hunley; Little Bighorn.
Episode 6 • May 25, 2007
Florida, Indiana, Washington, Utah, Rhode Island
Millionaire industrialist Henry Flagler; the Indy 500; Mount St. Helens; the Bonneville Salt Flats; Roger Williams.
Episode 7 • Jun 01, 2007
Illinois, Connecticut, Nevada, Mississippi, Wyoming
The Cahokian civilization; Connecticut's shipbuilders shift from sails to steam to diesel power; the 1859 discovery of the Comstock lode; the blues; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Episode 8 • Jun 08, 2007
Virginia, Ohio, Idaho, Alabama, North Dakota
Jamestown; the Gravity Grand Prix; potatoes; Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus; Teddy Roosevelt's North Dakota ranch.
Episode 9 • Jun 15, 2007
Michigan, Tennessee, Maine, Missouri, South Dakota
Michigan's logging industry; Davy Crockett; lobster; the gateway to the West; the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in the 1870s.
Episode 10 • Jun 22, 2007
Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maryland/DC
Stone Mountain; Deer Trail, Colo.; America's dairy land; the Homestead Act of 1862 brings settlers to Nebraska's plains; Francis Scott Key.
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