This special examines the history of innovation in the United States and its impact around the world.

This special examines the history of innovation in the United States and its impact around the world. Sir Harold Evans ( The American Century ) provides on-camera commentary. By telling the stories of the endlessly inventive men and women who transformed the world, THEY MADE AMERICA explores the political, social, economic and environmental forces that made the United States an incubator for so much radical and far-reaching creativity.