Special Features
- General Article: Race and the Army During World War II
- Flash Interactive: How to Build a Road
- General Article: Driving the Highway Today
- Interview: Building the Alaska Highway
- General Article: Alaska in the 1940s
- Primary Resources: Attack on Alaska
On November 20, 1942, on a remote vista in Yukon Territory, several hundred men braved the bitter cold to mark the end of an ordeal that few people thought possible: the completion of the Alaska Highway.
Stretching 1,500 miles through the sub-arctic wilderness, the Alaskan Highway was built to defend American from threats in the Pacific and stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.
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Secrets of a Master Builder
Engineer James Eads tamed the mighty Mississippi, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation.
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
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Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Equipment failure, human error and bad luck led to the country's worst nuclear accident in 1979.
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Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
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The Telephone
Though first seen only as an expensive luxury, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone soon transformed American life and became a necessity.
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Influenza 1918
The worst epidemic in American history killed over 600,000 Americans during World War I.
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Race for the Superbomb
The U.S. and the Soviet Union race to build the hydrogen bomb during the Cold War, thus beginning the nuclear arms race.
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Truman
Harry Truman was responsible for finding America's place at the start of the Cold War. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
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