1. New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow
Aired: Sep 10, 2001Reveals the immense new forces that were unleashed in New York.
American Experience
Season 14 Episode 7: Miss America
Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator Cherry Jones calls "a barometer of America's shifting ideas of American womanhood." Included: eight former Miss Americas recall their runway strolls -- and the world beyond Atlantic City during their reigns. Also: comments from historians and social observers, including Gloria Steinem, a beauty-pageant contestant herself as a teen. "It was glamorous," she says, perhaps surprisingly. Also surpr...
