America The Story of Us

The History Channel presents America The Story of Us a twelve hour six-night event reliving some of the indispensable events that helped shape America. Elaborate and innovative, The Story of Us presents the first comprehensive re-telling of the history of the United States on TV in over forty years. The six-night series traces key moments in America’s struggle to balance the harnessing of advancement and technology with the advancement of human progress. Journal entries written by early American settlers from Jamestown and Plymouth through the expansion west coupled with commentary from some of today’s most respected academics, intellectuals, and artists provide context for America’s evolution. To modernize the series, The History Channel has incorporated computer generated models and dramatic reenactments of key moments in time that encapsulate the United States over the last four hundred years. The six-episode series America, the Story of Us airs Sunday nights at 8pm on the History Channel.