As America approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, This Land traces the dramatic story of how a fragile nation on the Atlantic coast expanded across a continent through six defining frontiers that reshaped the country forever. Blending immersive vérité storytelling with intimate access, the series journeys from the Louisiana Purchase and the rise of New York City to the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, Alaska, and the contested borderlands of the American Southwest — revealing how ambition, conflict, resistance, and power redrew the American map.
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““This Land” isn’t exactly Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” but it does offer something of an alternative account of how America came to be, with a bit of myth-busting along the way…”
John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal
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