Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women’s rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around…

Spanning the years 1865 to 1890, The American West, will show how — in the aftermath of the Civil War — the United States transforms into the “land of opportunity.”…