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Loretta Lynch testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2015.

Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch As Attorney General

After a five-month delay, Lynch will be the first black woman to lead the Justice Department. Now she has to build a relationship with the same Congress that stalled her confirmation.

Craig Adams, Jr., 18, is studying for his second try at the high school equivalency exam.

In New Orleans, Young Lives Adrift

Among U.S. cities, New Orleans has the third-highest rate of young people who are neither in school nor working. Craig Adams Jr. is trying not to be one of them.

On Links As In Life, D.C. Bipartisan Relations Are Deep In The Rough

Golf is a sport that's been enjoyed by both Democrats and Republicans through the decades, but bipartisan golf outings may be disappearing like a shanked tee shot into a water hazard.

Hill staffers and PGA professionals mingle Wednesday at this year's National Golf Day event on Capitol Hill, which included an annual Democrats versus Republicans putting challenge.

On Links As In Life, D.C. Bipartisan Relations Are Deep In The Rough

Golf is a sport that's been enjoyed by both Democrats and Republicans through the decades, but bipartisan golf outings may be disappearing like a shanked tee shot into a water hazard.

Prisoners of Nazi death camp. "Memory Of The Camps," a landmark historical film discovered by FRONTLINE in a museum vault decades ago, has been called “Hitchcock’s lost Holocaust film.” First broadcast by the series in 1985, the documentary shows the first horrifying footage shot as Allied troops entered the Nazi death camps and draws on initial editing done by famed director Alfred Hitchcock before the film was shelved 70 years ago.

FRONTLINE: Memory Of The Camps

Airs Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Two women in shorts — and a whistling bystander --amid a propriety debate in Fort Worth, Tex., 1952.

When Wearing Shorts Was Taboo

In certain places in American history, showing a little leg has been illegal — for men and women.

Rev. Robert H. Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., speaks at the church, in 1996. Schuller, who hosted the top-rated Hour of Power telecast for decades, died Thursday at age 88.

Megachurch Founder, Televangelist Robert Schuller, Dies At 88

The pastor who built his church from nothing in the 1960s, launched the Hour of Power broadcast a decade later. By 2010, however, the palatial Crystal Cathedral was forced into bankruptcy.

Rev. Robert H. Schuller delivers one of seven candlelight Christmas Eve services from the Crystal Cathedral pulpit in Garden Grove, Dec. 24, 1997.

Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral Megachurch Founder, Dies

The Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years has died.

"This lamb ham is sweet, buttery and smoky, with just a hint of lamb flavor," says Sam Edwards, one of the Virginians who is bringing back the colonial style of curing lamb.

The Resurrection Of Lamb Ham: A Colonial Tradition Revived

British colonialists brought lamb ham to America, where a sugar-cured, smoked variety became popular. Easier-to-cure pork ham eventually took its place, but now two Virginians are bringing it back.

How 'One Nation' Didn't Become 'Under God' Until The '50s Religious Revival

Kevin Kruse's book looks at how industrialists in the '30s and '40s recruited clergy to preach free enterprise. And under the Eisenhower administration, Christianity and capitalism moved center stage.

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