In the summer of 1940, 10,000 children were sent from wartime Britain to the United States.
The acquittal of the murderers of Chicago teen Emmett Till mobilized the civil rights movement.
The stories of ordinary people in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union.
Two days in 1967 revealed a nation divided over a war that continues to haunt us.
The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest and bloodiest single battle American soldiers ever fought.
The story of a Vietnamese mother, the Amerasian daughter she sent away for adoption, and their reunion 22 years after the Vietnam War.
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
The story of the dramatic post-World War II tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice and defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union race to build the hydrogen bomb during the Cold War, thus beginning the nuclear arms race.