On this day in 1973, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger started a new job in the Nixon administration: Secretary of State. The first foreign-born top diplomat, Kissinger was also the first (and only) person to serve as National Security Advisor while running the State Department. Premiering next month on PBS, our new two-part, three-hour biography offers an incisive portrait of the enigmatic powerbroker, from his childhood in Hitler’s Germany to his swift rise to the highest rungs of Amer

On September 26, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, one of the first federal laws protecting the rights of Americans with disabilities. But it was not enforced right away. Meet the dedicated activists and Washington insiders who pushed for disability rights in CHANGE, NOT CHARITY: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, now streaming on YouTube and the PBS app. #ChangeNotCharityPBS | American Experience | PBS