The BEST episodes written by Elizabeth Deane

#1 - Ulysses S. Grant (1): The Warrior

American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 13

The military career and troubled administration of the 15th President of the United States.

#2 - The Rockefellers (1)

American Experience - Season 13 - Episode 1

Biography of the family through four generations and their changing ideas on the use of money and power in America.

#3 - John and Abigail Adams

American Experience - Season 18 - Episode 5

A chronicle of the lives of the couple and their mutual regard for each other's abilities and intelligence.

#4 - Plague at the Golden Gate

American Experience - Season 34 - Episode 4

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor.

#5 - Ulysses S. Grant (2): The President

American Experience - Season 14 - Episode 14

#6 - Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat

American Experience - Season 16 - Episode 3

#7 - Vietnam: A Television History (11): The Fall of Saigon

American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 23

Ten years after American ground troops arrived in South Vietnam, communists seize Saigon in a lightning attack that brings the war to a startling conclusion. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.

#8 - Vietnam: A Television History (2): America's Mandarin

American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 14

The United States is drawn into Vietnam through its support − then abandonment − of South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, who is assassinated in a coup. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.

#9 - Vietnam: A Television History (10): Homefront USA

American Experience - Season 9 - Episode 22

Americans at home divide over a distant war, clashing in the streets as demonstrations lead to bloodshed, bitterness and increasing doubts. An edited re-broadcast of the 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History.