Wednesday, Jan. 23
9-11 p.m. E/P

PBS

Subjects: US History

Middle and High School

"The Jewish Americans: Home"

This is concluding installment of a documentary miniseries about Jewish American history. With Hitler defeated and six million European Jews murdered, American Jews were fighting despair. However, by 1946, with the return of Jewish-American servicemen and the crowning of the first Jewish Miss America, a new spirit of optimism emerged. In1948, Jewish Americans actively supported the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. By the 1950s, discrimination against Jews in daily life began to abate as quotas at universities and restrictions at resorts and housing gradually disappeared.

Wednesday, Jan. 23
7-8 p.m. E/P

History Channel

Subjects: Science and US History

Elementary, Middle and High School

"Modern Marvels - The Butcher"

This documentary traces the history of the meat trade--from yesteryear's butcher-on-every-corner to today's industrial butcher working on a "disassembly" line. We tour the infamous remains of the Chicago Stockyards, where Upton Sinclair, Clarence Birdseye, and refrigeration changed butchering forever; witness high-speed butchering; and travel to a non-stop sausage factory. And if you're still squeamish, a USDA inspector offers the lowdown on HACCP--the country's new system of checks and balances on everything from quality grading to E. coli, Salmonella, and Mad Cow Disease. Finally, we visit the last bastion of old-school butchering--the rural custom butcher, who slaughters, eviscerates, skins, and cuts to his customer's wishes.

Thursday, Jan. 24
7-10 p.m. E/P

Discovery Science Channel

Subjects: Science

Elementary, Middle and High School

"Time: Cosmic Time/ Daytime/Lifetime"

This is a broadcast of all three episodes of a science documentary about time. The first episode, "Cosmic Time" is about how we've always structured our lives based on an unchanging past and a predictable and ordered future. But atomic and cosmic discoveries have changed all that. What is time itself? And will it ever end? The second episode, "Time Daytime" shows how time seems to drive every moment. It's the most inescapable force we feel. But do we experience time from within our minds and bodies or from the outside? "Time Lifetime" discusses our unique knowledge of time, realizing that it stretches deep into the past, and will continue into the future. How does this affect our sense of who we are?

Friday, Jan. 25
10-11 p.m. E/P

PBS

Subjects: US History

Middle and High School

"Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction"

The series' third hour of this documentary series looks at the period from 1800 through the start of the Civil War, during which slavery saw an enormous expansion and entered its final decades. As the nation expanded west, the question of slavery became the over-riding political issue of the time. These years saw an increasingly militant abolitionist movement and a widening rift between the North -- which had largely outlawed slavery but continued to reap the vast economic benefits of the system -- and the South, now home to millions of enslaved black men, women and children.

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Saturday, Jan. 26
8-10 p.m. E/P

Discovery Science Channel

Subjects: Science

Elementary, Middle and High School

"Mammals Vs. Dinos/ The Age of Gigantism"

This two-part documentary begins with a look the first dinosaurs and mammals nearly 200 million years ago and the long evolutionary competition between the two groups. Through computer-generated animations, we see dinosaurs evolving into giant creatures The second hour is about the continuation of the evolutionary battle with a host of new characters from dinosaur-eating mammals to the appearance of quick and deadly feathered dinosaurs. Each side has continued to evolve.