[close] Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 [close]

[close] This interview with Robert F. Williams is excerpted from "Integration: Report I," directed by Madeline Anderson (Andover Productions, 1960), which profiled the modern civil-rights movement from 1957-60, including sit-ins, marches, boycotts and rallies at Montgomery, Ala., Brooklyn, N. Y., and Washington, D. C. The woman sitting next to Williams in his wife, Mabel, and the bespectacled man is veteran civil-rights attorney Conrad J. Lynn, Williams's lawyer. The narrator is playwright and author Loften Mitchell. [close]

[close] Fred Kaplan talks to PBC about his newest book, "1959: The Year Everything Changed". In this video (part 2 of 3) he covers several societal shifts, from the Beat generation to the birth control pill. From the generation gap, to civil rights, to women's rights, Kaplan tells us what happened in 1959 to make it a turning point in American Culture. [close]