American Experience (1987) | Full Cast

David Grubin

DIRECTOR

Stephen Ives

DIRECTOR

Rob Rapley

DIRECTOR

Barak Goodman

DIRECTOR

Ric Burns

DIRECTOR

Robert Stone

DIRECTOR

Adriana Bosch

DIRECTOR

Austin Hoyt

DIRECTOR

John Maggio

DIRECTOR

Sarah Colt

DIRECTOR

Chana Gazit

DIRECTOR

Randall MacLowry

DIRECTOR

Michelle Ferrari

DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Deane

DIRECTOR

James A. DeVinney

DIRECTOR

Mark Zwonitzer

DIRECTOR

Stanley Nelson

DIRECTOR

David Espar

DIRECTOR

Robert Kenner

DIRECTOR

Amanda Pollak

DIRECTOR

Rocky Collins

DIRECTOR

Marilyn Mellowes

DIRECTOR

Mark Davis

DIRECTOR

Paul Stekler

DIRECTOR

Patricia Garcia Rios

DIRECTOR

Jamila Ephron

DIRECTOR

Irv Drasnin

DIRECTOR

Thomas Lennon

DIRECTOR

Orlando Bagwell

DIRECTOR

Christine Lesiak

DIRECTOR

Nancy Porter

DIRECTOR

Thomas Ott

DIRECTOR

Ben Loeterman

DIRECTOR

David Steward

DIRECTOR

Lisa Ades

DIRECTOR

Carl Byker

DIRECTOR

Michael Chin

DIRECTOR

Peter Jones

DIRECTOR

Chris Eyre

DIRECTOR

Susan Bellows

DIRECTOR

Cathleen O'Connell

DIRECTOR

Callie T. Wiser

DIRECTOR

Neil Goodwin

DIRECTOR

Edward Gray

DIRECTOR

Phillip Whitehead

DIRECTOR

Michael Epstein

DIRECTOR

Linda Garmon

DIRECTOR

Mel Bucklin

DIRECTOR

Sue Williams

DIRECTOR

Llewellyn M. Smith

DIRECTOR

Daniel McCabe

DIRECTOR

Joseph Tovares

DIRECTOR

Mitch Wilson

DIRECTOR

Gail Dolgin

DIRECTOR

Vicente Franco

DIRECTOR

Tracy Heather Strain

DIRECTOR

Dave Pearce

DIRECTOR

Muffie Meyer

DIRECTOR

Helen Whitney

DIRECTOR

Sheila Curran Bernard

DIRECTOR

Madison D. Lacy

DIRECTOR

Louis J. Massiah

DIRECTOR

Terry Kay Rockefeller

DIRECTOR

Li-Shin Yu

DIRECTOR

Sharon Grimberg

DIRECTOR

Jon Blair

DIRECTOR

Frank J. De Meo

DIRECTOR

Robert Drew

DIRECTOR

Pat Ferrero

DIRECTOR

Craig B. Fisher

DIRECTOR

George T. Nierenberg

DIRECTOR

Anthony Potter

DIRECTOR

Martha Sandlin

DIRECTOR

William Greaves

DIRECTOR

David Hoffman

DIRECTOR

Kenneth Levis

DIRECTOR

Ann Tegnell

DIRECTOR

Tom Weidlinger

DIRECTOR

Patchy Wheatley

DIRECTOR

Lise Yasui

DIRECTOR

Arthur Dong

DIRECTOR

Robert Tranchin

DIRECTOR

Lance Bird

DIRECTOR

John Crowley

DIRECTOR

Tom Johnson

DIRECTOR

Robert Levi

DIRECTOR

Jacqueline Shearer

DIRECTOR

Michael R. Lawrence

DIRECTOR

Tom Spain

DIRECTOR

David Sutherland

DIRECTOR

Hector Galan

DIRECTOR

Helaine Head

DIRECTOR

Lawrence R. Hott

DIRECTOR

Charlotte Zwerin

DIRECTOR

Pearl Bowser

DIRECTOR

Bestor Cram

DIRECTOR

Charles Guggenheim

DIRECTOR

Marty Ostrow

DIRECTOR

Steven Ascher

DIRECTOR

Janet Graham

DIRECTOR

Jeanne Jordan

DIRECTOR

John W. Walter

DIRECTOR

Connie Field

DIRECTOR

Marilyn Mulford

DIRECTOR

David Dugan

DIRECTOR

Karen Goodman

DIRECTOR

Mickey Hart

DIRECTOR

Bill Kreutzmann

DIRECTOR

Kirk Simon

DIRECTOR

Lexy Lovell

DIRECTOR

Richard P. Rogers

DIRECTOR

Michael Uys

DIRECTOR

Margaret Drain

DIRECTOR

Sarah Holt

DIRECTOR

Laurel Ladevich

DIRECTOR

Stephen Stept

DIRECTOR

Mark Anderson

DIRECTOR

Freida Lee Mock

DIRECTOR

Terry Sanders

DIRECTOR

Michael Simkin

DIRECTOR

Daniel Anker

DIRECTOR

Ricki Green

DIRECTOR

Bill Duke

DIRECTOR

Andrea Kalin

DIRECTOR

Annie Mumgaard

DIRECTOR

Mark Samels

DIRECTOR

Eric Stange

DIRECTOR

Laurie Kahn

DIRECTOR

Marian Marzynski

DIRECTOR

Noland Walker

DIRECTOR

M Pink Christofalo

DIRECTOR

Kathy Conkwright

DIRECTOR

Kevin Kertscher

DIRECTOR

Riva Freifeld

DIRECTOR

Lutz Hachmeister

DIRECTOR

Michael Kloft

DIRECTOR

Hilary Klotz Steinman

DIRECTOR

Ilan Ziv

DIRECTOR

Peter Adler

DIRECTOR

Alexander Berkel

DIRECTOR

Stefan Mausbach

DIRECTOR

John Rubin

DIRECTOR

Caroline Toth

DIRECTOR

Axel Engstfeld

DIRECTOR

Sam Pollard

DIRECTOR

Bernardo Ruiz

DIRECTOR

Dustinn Craig

DIRECTOR

Peter Miller

DIRECTOR

Carlos Sandoval

DIRECTOR

Zvi Dor-Ner

DIRECTOR

Kate Davis

DIRECTOR

Bill Guttentag

DIRECTOR

David Heilbroner

DIRECTOR

Dan Sturman

DIRECTOR

Jamila Wignot

DIRECTOR

Aysyuak Yumagulov

DIRECTOR

David Belton

DIRECTOR

Laurens Grant

DIRECTOR

Tim Toidze

DIRECTOR

Rory Kennedy

DIRECTOR

Margaret Grossi

DIRECTOR

Michael Rossi

DIRECTOR

Michael Bicks

DIRECTOR

Leola Calzolai-Stewart

DIRECTOR

Anna Lee Strachan

DIRECTOR

Cyndee Readdean

DIRECTOR

Stephen Talbot

DIRECTOR

Helen Ryan Dobrowski

DIRECTOR

Gene Tempest

DIRECTOR

Peter Yost

DIRECTOR

David McCullough

Self - Host

David Ogden Stiers

Self - Narrator

Michael Murphy

Self - Narrator

Oliver Platt

Self - Narrator

Joe Morton

Self - Narrator

Linda Hunt

Self - Narrator

Campbell Scott

Self - Narrator

Liev Schreiber

Self - Narrator

Will Lyman

Narrator

Philip Bosco

Narrator

Robert A. Caro

Self

Robert Dallek

Self

Blair Brown

Self - Narrator

Brendan Gill

Self

Eli Wallach

George McKinstry

John Steele Gordon

Self

George Plimpton

Self

Callie Thorne

Voice

Kenneth Jackson

Self

Robert A.M. Stern

Self

Mike Wallace

Self (historian)

Andre Braugher

Narrator

Harris Yulin

Narrator

Robert Sean Leonard

Edmund Tyrone

Pete Hamill

Self

David Morse

Abraham Lincoln

Holly Hunter

Mary Lincoln

Julian Bond

Narrator

Frances Sternhagen

Self

Jason Robards

Narrator

Luc Sante

Self

Calvin O. Butts III

Self

Craig Steven Wilder

Self

David Nasaw

Self

Neal Huff

William Lloyd Garrison

Stacy Keach

Self - Narrator

Benjamin Bratt

Narrator

Carol Berkin

Self

Daniel Czitrom

Self

Josh Hamilton

Owen Chase

Andrew Young

Self

Stanley Karnow

Self

Spalding Gray

Self

Josh Hamilton

ACTOR

Keith David

ACTOR

Paul Giamatti

Narrator

Fran Lebowitz

Self

Rudy Giuliani

Self

Marshall Berman

Self

Alfred Kazin

Self

Caleb Carr

Self

Peter Quinn

Self

Beverly Gage

Self - Historian

Gary Sick

Self

Barbara Rosen

Self

Barry Rosen

Self

Hilary Brown

Self

Paul A. Hutton

Self - Historian

Carole Jerome

Self

James Q. Roberts

Self

Michael Stuhlbarg

Alfred Doten

Corey Stoll

Narrator

Kate Burton

Narrator

Thomas Bender

Self

Ed Koch

Self

Roger Wilkins

Self

John Kuo Wei Tchen

Self

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self

Andrei Codrescu

ACTOR

Gene Jones

ACTOR

Peter Coyote

John Wesley Powell

Richard Ben Cramer

Narrator

Carol Willis

Self

Joan Allen

Self - Reader

Donald Trump

Self

Allen Ginsberg

Self

James Hazeldine

Self

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Self

Phillip Lopate

Self

Rene Auberjonois

Alexander Hamilton

Jennifer Lee Andrews

ACTOR

Steven Watts

Self - Historian

Jeanine Serralles

Angelina Grimke

Courtney B. Vance

Narrator

Laura Linney

Narrator

Donald Fixico

Historian

Claire Potter

Self

T. Ryder Smith

John Brown

Lee Wilkof

Dr. Walter Freeman

Hampton Sides

Self

Stephen Kinzer

Self

Michael Cumpsty

James Callender

Thomas Doherty

Self

Richard Brooks

Frederick Douglass

Kathy Peiss

Self

Kate Lyn Sheil

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Susan Douglas

Self - Historian

Vernon Jarrett

Self

Kwabena Ampofo

Anthony Burns

Denis O'Hare

Benjamin Latrobe

Steve Annan

Theodore Weld

Ingrid Alli

Aunt Hester

Lynn Bandoria

Rosetta Douglass

Scott Carter

Overseer

Wendy Carter

Sarah Grimké

Leiv Clegg

Teenaged Frederick Douglass

Trina Comissiong

Slave Auction Child

Crystal Cupp

Mrs. Grimké

Denyse Ellington

Mary Brown, John Brown's Wife

Brian Elder

Slave Auctioneer

Virginia Fields

Mary Dutton

Kacy Gabbert

Ruth Brown, John Brown's Daughter

Montrece Hill

Slave Auction Mother

Anthony Michael Hobbs

Young Frederick Douglass

Natalie Racoosin

Elizabeth Key

Jeff Wilhelm

Edward Covey

Shaun Woodland

William Nell

Aaron Angus

Boston Mob Leader

Kevin Inouye

Boston Mob Leader

Kevin Lawrence O'Donnell

Boston Mob Leader

Daniel Sheets

Boston Mob Leader

Paul Stober

Boston Mob Leader

Keith Tyree

Boston Mob Leader

Nicholas Katzenbach

Self

Irv Drasnin

Narrator

Richard N. Goodwin

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self

Ossie Davis

Narrator

Susan Sarandon

Narrator

Jean Strouse

Self

Richard Norton Smith

Self

Tony Kushner

Self

Peter Haydu

Russian voices

David Levering Lewis

Self

Janeane Garofalo

Self

Ron Silver

ACTOR

David Margulies

Self

E.L. Doctorow

Self

Frederic Kimball

Self

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin

Self

Joshua Freeman

Self

Joanne Freeman

Self

Dion Graham

Narrator

John Hope Franklin

Self

David Herbert Donald

Self

Kevin R. Hershberger

Union Infantryman

Ada Louise Huxtable

Self

Eric Stoltz

Self - Reader

Margaret Washington

Self

Duncan B. Putney

Adam's French Servant

Alan Francis Sullivan

Governor John Carver

Harris Wofford

Campaign Aide

Jefferson Mays

Additional voice

Tim Naftali

Self

Jill Jonnes

Self

R. David Edmunds

Self

Nathaniel Philbrick

Self

Jake Brennan

Franky Garrison

Robert J. Thompson

Self - Director of Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University

Blythe Danner

ACTOR

Brandon J. Dirden

ACTOR

Eric Loscheider

ACTOR

Amy Ulrich

Self

Hector Elizondo

Narrator

Scott Glenn

Narrator

Andia Winslow

Self - Narrator

Jeanine Basinger

Self - Film Historian

James Robert Green

Self - Professor of History

Neal Gabler

Self - Biographer

Steve Fraser

Self - Historian

Tom Sito

Self - Animator

Nancy Koehn

Self - Harvard Business School

Don Hahn

Self - Animator

Richard Schickel

Self - Writer

Eric Smoodin

Self - Film Historian

James Avery

Charles Hamilton Houston

Carmenita Higginbotham

Self - Art Historian

Don Lusk

Self - Animator

Ron Suskind

Self - Writer

Sarah Nilsen

Self - Film Historian

Robert Givens

Self - Animator

Douglas Brode

Self - Film Historian

Ruth Tompson

Self - Ink and Paint Artist

Frank Sullivan

Self

Morgan Freeman

Narrator

Carl Lumbly

Frederick Douglass

Alfre Woodard

Self - Narrator

Saloma Furlong

Self - Former Amish

Ruth Gruber

Self

Timothy Sawyer

John White Webster

Ken Verdoia

Self

Evan Thomas

Self - Biographer

Linda Emond

Abigail Adams

T.J. Stiles

Self

Levi Shetler

Self - Former Amish

Paula Giddings

Self

John M. Staudenmaier

Self

Kevin Murray

Mr Jocelyn

Gene Smith

Self

Robert D. Murphy

Marshall Francis Tukey

John Ellison Conlee

Congressman George P

Jackson Lears

Self - Historian

John Curless

Anthony Merry - British Envoy

James Cromwell

Clarence Darrow

Daniel Gerroll

Colonel Pash

Kara Jackson

Child

Richard White

Self - Historian

Robert Jensen

Re-Enactor

Daniel Brown

Defense Lawyer - Creighton Case

John Tebbel

Self

Julia Morrison

Catherine Coles

Ted Otis

Judge - Creighton Case

Frank Pando

Reenactment Actor

Todd Gitlin

Self

Chet Hansen

Self

Leah Wright-Rigueur

Self - Historian

Barbora Mudrová

Sarah White

Bob Moses

Self

Thomas Coleman

Shields Green

Steve Acevedo

Extra

George Reedy

Self

Boyd Gaines

The Voice of Chairman Gray

Charles Kuralt

Narrator

Mark Obenhaus

Narrator

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Self

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Luci Baines Johnson

Self

Lois Smith

ACTOR

John Connally

Self

Ronnie Dugger

Self

James Jarrell Pickle

Self

Amy Madigan

ACTOR

Susan Ware

Self

Kathy Bates

Narrator

Victor Reuther

Self

Mike Wallace

Self

Tweed Roosevelt

Self

Peter Bogdanovich

Self

Walter LaFeber

Self

Nancy Reagan

Self

Patti Davis

Self

Margaret Thatcher

Self

Ron Reagan

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

Chris Matthews

Self

George F. Will

Self

James Baker III

Self

Ed Meese

Self

George Shultz

Self

Michael Deaver

Self

Ed Rollins

Self

Donald Regan

Self

Edmund Morris

Self

Martin Anderson

Self

Helen Caldicott

Self

Richard Wirthlin

Self

Lyn Nofziger

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self

Frank McCourt

ACTOR

Ruth Abram

ACTOR

Patrick McGrath

ACTOR

Christine Stansell

Self

Isaiah Sheffer

ACTOR

Ann Douglas

ACTOR

Margo Jefferson

Self

Nancy Grose

Self

Ruth J. Abram

Self

Randy Quaid

Self - Narrator

Michael Hagiwara

Self

Frank Pellegrino

Self

Bella Abzug

Self

Frank J. Williams

Self

Anna Quindlen

Self

Jean Harvey Baker

Self

Ray Suarez

Self

Tim L. Smith

Union Infantryman

David E. Long

Self

Mary Genevieve Murphy

Self

Charles B. Strozier

Self

Douglas L. Wilson

Self

Frances Goldin

Self

Cheryl Greenberg

Self

Mark E. Neely Jr.

Self

Donald Miller

Self

Linda Levitt Turner

Self

Marion Ross

Self - Narrator

Jude Ciccolella

Narrator

Ray Baker

ACTOR

Peter Parks

ACTOR

Harry Bulkeley

Ulysses S. Grant

Ellen Wilson

ACTOR

Alex Ingram

Grant as a Child

Derek Nelson

Ulysses S. Grant

Donald Watson

Judge #2

Michele Proude

Caroline Littlefield

Ted Garland

Lawyer #1

John Meaney

Spectator

Rena Baskin

Woman on Street

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Self - Daughter

Volker Kluge

Self - Sports Journalist

Will Le Bow

Earl Tupper

Jack Newfield

Self - Journalist

Nicholas Pileggi

Self

Oscar Goodman

Self

Steve Wynn

Self

Paul Laxalt

Self

Brian Greenspun

Self

David Thomson

Self

Elaine Wynn

Self

Patricia Cunningham

Self

Dave Hickey

Self

Hal Rothman

Self

Paul Horn

ACTOR

Dina Titus

Self

Mike Shapiro

David Triggs

Bernhard Seifert

James Earl Ray

Lewis D. Wheeler

Legal Aide to Adams

Leslie Karsten

Self

Emily Lodish

Self

Terryl Givens

Self

Marlin K. Jensen

Self

Margaret Toscano

Self

Richard Mouw

Self

Chris Cooper

Self - Narrator

Jonathan Alter

Self

Philip J. Deloria

Self

Wes Studi

Major Ridge

Colin G. Calloway

Self

Russell J. Ramos

Dock Worker

Tim Hopper

Narrator

Jason Alan Carvell

ACTOR

Michael Murphy

Narrator

David Clay Large

Self

Bart Fletcher

Dylan O' Grady

Jon Douglas Rainey

Anti-Abolitionist

William Kaffenberger

Mob Man

Matt Nicholas

Douglas Speech Attendee

Michael Dobbs

Self

Alan Davis

Anti-Abolitionist Bonfire Attendee

Richard Reeves

Self

Matthew Gooley

Bonfire Reveler

Shawn Everett Jones

Angry Mob Member

Roger Novak

Angry Mob Member and Depot Official

Melissa Panos

Angelina's Friend

Robert Lucas Nelson

One of the Men in the Mob

Thomas Hughes

Self

Timothy Egan

Self

Peter Krause

Narrator

William Randolph Hearst III

Self - Grandson of Wm Randolph Hearst

Kilon Bauno

Self - Chief of the Bikinians

Kyle MacLachlan

Self - Narrator

Ruby Dee

Narrator

Michael Burgess

Horace Durham

Ellen Burstyn

Self - Narrator

Hal Linden

Narrator

Toni Cade Bambara

Self - Author

Ron Tough

Ephraim Ballard

Cherry Jones

Narrator

John Nash

Self

Simon Schama

Self - Presenter

Russ Little

Self

Will Patton

John Wilkes Booth

Jackson Walker

Daniel Ross

Ameya Patankar

Self - Scientist

Aubrey Daniel

Self - Army Prosecutor

Virginia Apuzzo

Self

Shuler Hensley

James Garfield

Sara Weaver

Self - Daughter of Randy Weaver

JoAnna Rhinehart

Narrator

Lea Salonga

Narrator

James Sullivan

Self, author of 'Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon'

Vanessa Williams

Narrator

Mary Pilon

Self - Writer

Katherine Clavelo

Self - Sportscaster

Douglas A. Blackmon

Self - Journalist & Narrator

Otto Fehrenbacher

Self - Interviewee

John Smitherman

Self - Veteran of Nuclear Weapons Tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946

Ron Vawter

Charles Guiteau

Peter Francis James

Thurgood Marshall

Edward A. Askew

Self

Robert Hall

Self - Historian

William Stanley Merwin

Self - Narrator

Charles Loring Brace IV

Voice Actor - multiple roles

Richard Barnett

Self

Anna Deavere Smith

Narrator

Julia Álvarez

Self

George J. Sanchez

Self - Historian

Phil Roberts

Historian

Michael Bortin

Self

Christopher Kraft

Self - Apollo Flight Operations Director

Scott Eyman

Self - Biographer

Walter Cronkite

Self

Marilyn Spanier

Annie Oakley

Phil Stewart

Self - Jesse James Historian

Colm Feore

Narrator

Guy Gane

John Wilkes Booth

Kathryn Black

Self - Writer

Fred Widmer

Self - Radio Operator

Martin Boyce

Self

Annelise Orleck

Self - Historian

Michael Rutter

Self - Non-Fiction Author

Robert Cohen

Self - Historian

Anna

Self - Amish Outcast

David Cunningham

Self - Author of 'Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan'

Kathryn Erbe

Lucretia Garfield

Jeff Guinn

Self - Author of 'Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde'

Simon Baatz

Self - Author of 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago'

Daniel Levitas

Self - Writer

Michael Hiltzik

Self - Writer

Jason Fagone

Self - Author of 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes'

Kimberly Jenkins

Self

Bahni Turpin

Zora Neale Hurston

Tristan Donovan

Self - Writer

Daphne Brooks

Self - African American Studies Scholar

Saeed Jackson

Self - Interviewee

Bart Whiteman

James Garfield

Robert Dawidoff

Self - Cultural Historian

Donald Chambers

Archer Felder

John C. Ausland

Self

Elton Fax

Self - Illustrator

Tom Wicker

Self - Journalist

David Lowe

Commentator - Architectural Historian

Matt Carlson

Voice Actor - multiple roles

George Bell

Self

Barbara Feldon

Voice-overs

Beau James

Dr. Alfred Blalock

Lupe Levas

Self - Sister of Henry Leyvas

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Self

Laura Hillenbrand

Self - Interviewee

Stephen Benson

Ephraim Littlefield

Fred Gamst

Anthropologist

Timothy Findley

Self

Susan Borman

Self - Wife of Commander Frank Borman

Kanalu Young

Self - Historian

Robert Cushman

Self - Film Historian

Gillian Cookson

Self - Historian

Ken Coates

Self - Historian

Simon Russell Beale

John Adams

Bob Ader

Attorney

Fred Chiaventone

Self - Author

Mary Bacon

Sally Thorpe

Clint Jordan

Family Member

Jason Roberts

David Herold

Julius Youngner

Self - Scientist, Salk's Lab

Tami Davis Biddle

Self - Historian

Lawrence La Croix

Self - Squad Leader

David Carter

Self

Richard A. Greenwald

Self - Historian

Denise Chávez

Self - Author

Lois Brown

Self - Historian

Hodding Carter III

Self - Journalist and Publisher, Delta Democrat Times

Naomi Kramer

Self - Former Amish

David Grann

Self - Author

Rob Christensen

Self - Journalist

Will Janowitz

Charles Guiteau

Buddy Barrow

Self - Clyde Barrow's Nephew

Hal Higdon

Self - Author of 'The Crime of the Century: The Leopold and Loeb Case'

Doug Estepp

Self - Local Historian, West Virginia

Jess Walter

Self - Author

Robert Buderi

Self - Writer

Nell Irvin Painter

Self - Historian

Amy Butler Greenfield

Self - Author of 'The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life'

Rabbit Goody

Self, Founder and Director of the Textile History Forum

Jefferson Cowie

Self - Historian

Jae Blaq

Self - Gaming Scholar

Andrew Carter

Self - Interviewee

Robert Fields

George Scoville

Thad Tate

Self - Historian

Scott Whitehurst

Oliver Hill

Pearl Bowser

Self - Archivist

Joe Bacile

Self

Dan Desmond

Voice Actor - multiple roles

Suzannah Lessard

Commentator - Author

Albert Eisele

Self - Biographer

Timuel Black

Self

Margaret Cho

Self

Christopher Haley

Vivien Thomas

Edward J. Escobar

Self - Historian

Sean McGuirk

Dr. George Parkman

Farrell Jones

Self - Interviewee

Wendell Huffman

Historian

Dan Grove

Self

Kevin Brownlow

Self - Film Historian

Charles Hendricks

Self - Military Historian

David Edward Stannard

Self - Professor

Scott Klavan

Attorney

William Jackson

Self - Son of Robert Jackson

Samuel Barnett

Philip's schoolmate

Joanna Merlin

Family Member

David Oshinsky

Self - Author, Polio: An American Story

Alexander Fedorchak

Young John Wilkes Booth

Conrad Crane

Self - Historian

Greg Olsen

Self - Machine Gunner

David Von Drehle

Self - Author

Raymond Castro

Self

Michael Wallis

Self - Non-Fiction Author

Douglas Brinkley

Self

Manisha Sinha

Self - Historian

Edwin King

Self - Pastor

Gerald Kolpan

Self - Author

Michael Sallah

Self - Author

Michael Frierson

Self - Filmmaker, FBI KKK

Rhea Leen Linder

Self - Bonnie Parker's Niece

Rosemary Feurer

Self - Associate Professor and Lead Historian for the Mother Jones Museum

Carol S. Steiker

Self - Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

H.W. Brands

Self - Historian

Jennet Conant

Self - author of 'Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changes the Course of WWII'

Vince Houghton

Self - Historian

Catherine E. McKinley

Self, author of 'The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood'

Adam Green

Self - Historian

Daniel Fehrenbacher

Self - Interviewee (Writer)

Adolph Mall

Judge Cox

Rey Tan

Self - Historian

Geoffrey S. Barkway

Self

Carlton Moss

Self - Filmmaker

Moira Driscoll

Voice Actor - multiple roles

Paula Uruburu

Author

Ted Van Dyk

Self - Humphrey Staff

Earl Bush

Self

Kimberly Clarice Aiken

Self - Miss America 1994

Eduardo Pagán

Self - Historian

Jane Leuders

Dr. Helen Taussig

Norah Christianson

Self - Interviewee

Mark Carver

Derastus Clapp

Ludlow Kramer

Self

Haunani-Kay Trask

Self - Professor

Heath Twichell

Self - Historian

Tino Balio

Self - Film Historian

Bernard Finn

Self - Smithsonian Institute

James Barbour

Thomas Jefferson

Virginia Scharff

Self - Historian

Christopher Phillips

Self - Historian

Gerry Bamman

Peter Fenner

Richard Biermann

ACTOR

Larry Becker

Self - Polio Survivor

Garman Bowers

Union Cavalry Officer

Max Hastings

Self - Historian

Jo Ann E. Argersinger

Self - Historian

William Eskridge

Self

David W. Blight

Self - Historian

Stephanie Coontz

Self - Historian

Jan Edwards

Self - Former Amish

Estelle Sanders

Self - Mayor of Roper, NC

John Logan

Self

James Eckhouse

Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss

Thomas G. Andrews

Self - Professor of History and Author of 'Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War'

Chuck Peterson

Self - Defense Attorney

Jacqueline L. Quillen

Self - Ellen Farnsworth Loomis' granddaughter

Charles McCormick

Self - Historian

Rose Mary Sheldon

Self - Military Historian, Virginia Military Institute

Adriane Lentz-Smith

Self - Historian

Seth E. Rockman

Self, Associate Professor of History

Thickoverload

Self - Game Historian

Robert J. Patterson

Self - NYC Nightclub Patron

Walter Stemberg

Self - Interviewee (Historian)

Marty McDonough

District Attorney Cockhill

Ira D. Gruber

Self - Historian

Denise Burse

Buster Marshall

Frances E. Williams

Self Actress

Sid Berger

Self

Anthony Fusco

Voice Actor - multiple roles

Marilyn Katz

Self - Antiwar Activist

Eleanor Daley

Self

John Dryden

Newsreel Voice

Alvaro Rodriguez

Self

Ric Ferentz

Self

Sean Fitzgerald

Charles B. Starkweather

David Haward Bain

Writer

John Lester

Self

Andrew Chaikin

Self - Space Historian

Donard De Cogan

Self - Engineer

Cobey Black

Self - Author of 'Hawaii Scandal'

Malcolm Boyd

Self - Friend of Mary Pickford

William Griggs

Self - Army Engineer

Whitney Harris

Self - Prosecutor

Tom Goodrich

Self - Author

Shirl Kasper

Self - Biographer

Lauren Bloom

Young Eliza Schuyler

Veronica James

Alice Hammett

Eugene F. Warren

Self

John M. Johnson

Self

Jörg Friedrich

Self - Historian

John Smail

Self - Squad Leader

Danny Garvin

Self

Steven Fraser

Self - Historian

Mark Lee Gardner

Self - Historian

James Brewer Stewart

Self - Historian

Rick Perlstein

Self - Historian and Journalist

Paul Edwards

Self - Former Amish

Thom Hatch

Self - Non-Fiction Author

Patsy Sims

Self - Author of 'The Klan'

Adam LeFevre

Chester Arthur

Freda Dillard

Self - Local Historian in Dallas

Paula Fass

Self - Historian Specialized in Childhood and Youth in the United States

Denise Giardina

Self - Novelist

Jacqueline Loomis

Self - Daughter-in-Law

Bruce Watson

Self - Author of 'Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream'

David A. Hatch

Self - Historian for the National Security Agency

Daina Ramey Berry

Self

Robeson Taj Frazier

Self - Author

Tobias Darwin Kaulsen

Self - Game Designer

Joe Shanahan

Self - Chicago Club Owner

Kathleen Barry

Self - Interviewee (Historian)

Rosemarie Zagarri

Self - Historian

Wayne Dehart

Rev Rovey

Ralph Bennett

Self

Dorothy Delfs

Self - Resident of Winner, SD

Susan Gordon-Clark

Voice Actor - multiple roles

David Dellinger

Self - Antiwar Activist

William Daley

Self

William Goldman

Self

Vicki Gold Levi

Self

Arthur Arenas

Self - Witness

Carol Bowers

Historian

John M. Logsdon

Self - Space Historian

Ah Quon McElrath

Self

Eileen Whitfield

Self - Biographer

Colin Hempstead

Self - Engineer

Billy Connor

Self - Civil Engineer

Deb Goodrich

Self - Historian

Martha Minow

Self - Professor of Law

Mary Zeiss Stange

Self - Associate Professor of Women's Studies

Carl Nubile

Dr. Walter Freeman

Gregory Labenz

Union Cavalry Officer

Betty Cook Brown

Self

Michael Bilton

Self - Writer

Jerry Hoose

Self

Frederick Nolan

Self - Non-Fiction Author

Greg Grandin

Self - Professor of History, New York University

Julie Roy Jeffrey

Self - Historian

Jann Wenner

Self - Co-Founder and Publisher, Rolling Stone

Thom Ross

Self - Artist

Joe Keim

Self - Former Amish

Gary Freeze

Self - Historian

Aran Shetterly

Self - Author

Sean Mahon

Roscoe Conkling

John A. Farrell

Self - Author of 'Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned'

John Neal Phillips

Self - Author of 'Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults'

Bo Gritz

Self - Third Party Negotiator

David Zimmerman

Self - Historian

Kenneth Ackerman

Self - Author of 'Young J. Edgar: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920'

Barbara Osteika

Self - Historian at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Danny Gordon

Self - Historian

Evan Morrison

Self, vintage denim collector

Frida Tarana

Self - WLUP-FM Promotions Director

Kate Raworth

Self - Economist

Mia Bay

Self - Interviewee (Historian)

Scott Edson

Mr Phelps

Francis Jennings

Self - Historian

Dale Wright

Mrs. Moody

Olive Delfs

Self - Resident of Winner, SD

Bill Bowdidge

Self

Rachel Miner

Voice Actor - multiple roles

David Farber

Self - Historian

Leon Despres

Self

Leonard Horn

Self

George Bray

Self - Sailor

Ken Cheeseman

Robert Gould Shaw

Jack Whitaker

Self - Interviewee

Stanley Hirshson

Self - Historian

John Mackay

Cyrus Field

Jerry Bostick

Self - Retrofire Officer

Kay Napoleon

Self

Hayward Oubre

Self - Army Engineer

Michael Gooch

Self - Jesse James Historian

R.L. Wilson

Self - Firearms Historian

John Q. Barrett

Self - Jackson's Biographer

Eleanor Sage

Self

William Buser

Union Cavalry Officer

Keith Lowe

Self - Writer

Kenneth Hodges

Self - Squad Leader

Drew Gomber

Self - Historian

W. Caleb McDaniel

Self - Historian

Hasia Diner

Self - New York University

John Bracey

Self - Historian

Anne Meadows

Self - Non-Fiction Author

Ned Cline

Self - Journalist

John Hutton

James Blaine

Linton Jay Hinton

Self

Joe William Trotter Jr.

Self - Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University

Jim Botting

Self - FBI Negotiator

Edward O'Donnell

Self - Historian

Mary Paul Loomis

Self - Granddaughter

Emma McClendon

Self, fashion historian

Carol Anderson

Self - Historian

Linda Clifford

Self - Disco Artist

Philip Orbanes

Self - Former Parker Brothers Executive

Victoria Vantoch

Self - Interviewee (Writer)

Ted McAdams

Dr. Spitzka

Cleveland Troy Simmons III

Small Boy

Felix P. Branham

Self

Shingzie Howard

Self - Actress

Amber Scott

Voice Actor - multiple roles

George Dunne

Self

Reno Sanetti

Self - Sailor

Sue Fawn Chung

Historian

James Devon

Doctor

Mike McColl

Voice of Cyrus Field

Glynn Lunney

Self - Flight Director

John Bollin

Self - Army Engineer

Victoria Flexner

Dramatization Actor

Benjamin Ferencz

Self - U.S. Army Investigator

Cathy M. Jackson

Self - Historian

Don B. Wilmeth

Self - Theatre Historian

Jeremiah Hornbaker

Union Cavalry Officer

John Troan

Self - Journalist

Ralph Giordano

Self

Thomas Turner

Self - Team Leader

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt