Great Decisions

Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation: We are led along his path to President Lincoln's moment of decision. Here the film stops momentarily with the question... "If you were the President of the United States, what would you have done?" William McKinley and American Imperialism: In 1908, President McKinley must make a fateful decision: whether or not to go to war with Spain and consequently, to embark on a policy of imperialism for the first time, acquiring colonies thousands of miles from America's shores. Woodrow Wilson: Fight for a League of Nations: Did Wilson help or harm his cause by trying to force the Senate to accept his views by making a direct appeal to the American public?