Maligned by the rock and pop industries, the nostalgic sounds of country music nonetheless command a place in the history of popular music. From the settlement of the west to the powerhouse of Nashville, this episode explores the deep and compelling history of the genre.

The raw honesty and danceable beats of rhythm and blues drew executives by the flock. During segregation in America, this form has a fascinating and intensely influential relationship with white American pop culture.

Widely misunderstood and often maligned by lovers of pop music, this episode explores the links between Jazz and American popular music.

Amedée Carillon and his grandson Jerome are threatened with eviction from their clock shop, and a ghost appears giving them even more trouble. They soon learn that long ago one of Amédée's ancestor was falsely accused of stealing some royal gold, and in revenge, he put a curse on the citizens of Avignon. The real thief was never found and the gold was hidden in an heirloom that was passed on to Améde'e.

Itsy Bitsy , who prefers to be called I.B., is the smallest student in school. The 3 Bad Bugs tease him but LB. dreams of playing his piccolo in their band so he tries to be friendly. Black Widow (Patti Labelle) inspires the 3 Bad Bugs and LE. to venture into the halls of a human high school looking for a "Little Miss Muffet" to scare.

Lauren Bacall gives a terrifyingly icy performance as Freezelda the Ice Queen, who hires Hoodwink the rat (rock star, Bryan Adams), to fetch some kittens to make fur mittens. Meanwhile. The three feisty little kittens miss their bus and on the way to school. They find Hoodwink frozen solid and they thaw him out next to a fire.

David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudsons Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational information. His life was one of adventure and hardship but...

Have you ever read a book that you couldn't put down? Has that book taken you to other countries, to other centuries? Have you found yourself brimming with excitement, exclaiming to all who will listen, "Read this book!" This biography is the story of a child who took her love of children's' books and found a way to share it with the world as she grew up. Her voice would be the first to carry the message of children's' right to read across the world....

As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writers to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people. Her books on emigration encouraged other pioneers who struggled with life in a new country. Catharine was a natural storyteller who loved to write. As an adult in Canada, she wrote while she was hungry and fearful...

Profiles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, starting with his sickly childhood, which he overcame to become a robust outdoorsman, leader of the Rough Riders and later, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.