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Robert Marshall, Aldo Leopold and Howard Zahniser dedicated their lives to protect the shrinking American wilderness. As a result, the Wilderness Act passed in 1964.
The Johnstown Flood
When an earthen dam broke without warning, a small city in Pennsylvania was swept away in a wall of water over 30 feet high.
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Surviving the Dust Bowl
The story of the farmers who dreamed of prosperity and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Her 1963 warnings about the effects of pesticides and herbicides sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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The Hurricane of '38
Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.
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Lost in the Grand Canyon
John Wesley Powell's epic journey into the unknown Grand Canyon was filled with adventure as his team mapped the Colorado River for the first time.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps
The New Deal program CCC put three million young men to work in camps across America.
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Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
A personal story of one family's dramatic effort to hold onto their family farm in Iowa as massive foreclosures sweep the nation in the 1990s.
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World
The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry.
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