Special Features
- Primary Resources: Populating Alaska
- General Article: Driving the Highway Today
- Flash Interactive: The Last Frontier
- Interview: Building the Alaska Highway
- General Article: The Building of the Alaska Highway
- Timeline: Alaska from Russian Colony to U.S. State
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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The Wright Stuff
Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright built a flying machine that made its first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
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The Man Behind Hitler
Joseph Goebbels, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's success.
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Reconstruction - The Second Civil War
The stories of ordinary people in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union.
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Return With Honor
American prisoners of war in North Vietnam tell of their experiences at the Hanoi Hilton and other notorious prisons.
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The Nuremberg Trials
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.
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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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