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Stone Mountain

Season 1 Episode 7 | 55m 38s

As Confederate statues are torn down across the country and the nation wrestles with its past, there are heated arguments about the fate of the Monument at Stone Mountain, Georgia, the Confederate Mount Rushmore.

Aired: 07/24/23 | Expires: 01/04/24
Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein is a production of Show of Force, DMR Productions, and WETA Washington, D.C. David M. Rubenstein is the host and executive producer. Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett and Sam Pollard are executive producers for Show of Force. John F. Wilson is executive producer for WETA. Bill Gardner is the executive in charge for PBS. Chris Ullman is producer for DMR Productions. Jonathan Scheinberg, Prisca Pointdujour, Sam Lacroix, Alexandra Nikolchev, Sally Rosenthal, Matthew Horovitz, Lizzie Mulvey and Ken Levis are producers for Show of Force. Kate Kelly is producer for WETA. Rick Van Meter is supervising producer. Allison Hanna is archival producer. Gary Lionelli is composer for the original score. Funding is provided by The Zohar and Lisa Ben-Dov Family through the Luminescence Foundation.
Extras
Does America have the can-do spirit for another Golden Gate-level engineering achievement?
The Golden Gate Bridge is an engineering marvel that symbolizes America’s can-do spirit.
The Golden Gate bridge is an engineering marvel that symbolizes America’s can-do spirit.
The plan to construct the Golden Gate Bridge was met with scores of skeptics.
BIPOC communities bear the brunt of the environmental cost of U.S. highway development.
Hasan Jeffries explains why some Southerners try to reframe the causes of the Civil War.
Gloria Brown discusses the unfulfilled promises of integration.
United Daughters of the Confederacy had a pivotal role memorializing Confederate soldiers.
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith discusses Stone Mountain's psychological toll on Black people
The head of Stone Mountain Memorial Association discusses plans for the monument's future.
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