About Me

STEVEN CHANNING brings a wide range of experiences as an historian, author and Emmy Award winning filmmaker. He began his professional life as an academic historian, with a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Beginning in the 1980’s, he began to communicate true stories about the American past through documentary and educational television. His initial productions include America’s 400th Anniversary, narrated by Andy Griffith, and Loyalty on Trial, which received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel award. The following year, he produced the historical drama Alamance for PBS, on the coming of the American Revolution. Alamance was an Emmy Award winner. Steve followed his success with Alamance with February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four. More recently, his documentary Durham: A Self-Portrait explained 150 years of race and class in this unique southern community, and he created Change Comes Knocking on the first antipoverty efforts in the South.