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Title | : | American Experience |
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Genre | : | Documentary |
Air Date | : | 1999-11-14 |
Season Number | : | 12 |
Episodes Number | : | 1 |
Overview | : | The Country and the City, 1609-1825: New York, notes narrator David Ogden Stiers, "was a business proposition from the very start," when Henry Hudson, exploring for the Dutch East India Company, sailed into its harbor. Part 1 also focuses on New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary; and Gov. DeWitt Clinton, who built the Erie Canal. "All America," says Stiers, "now met in New York." |
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