Historian Simon Schama is to present a new documentary series on BBC Two, set against the backdrop of the US presidential campaign and looking into the conflicts of America’s history to understand what is at stake right now.
Schama will look at the long-term future of the country, looking at four critical issues: war, moral fervour, immigration and the increasingly difficult relationship between expectations of prosperity and the reality of economic and environmental limits.
The four-part series, The American Future: A History, has been produced by Oxford Film and Television.