Special Features
- General Article: Workers' Strike at Hoover Dam
- General Article: The Controversial Naming of the Dam
- Further Reading: Related Websites
- Photo Gallery: The Men Who Built the Dam
- Timeline: Building the Hoover Dam
- General Article: Building Boulder City
During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming technical challenges to erect one of the greatest engineering works in history.
My American Experience
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The Satellite Sky
A uniquely impressionistic history of the early years of the Space Race.
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Partners of the Heart
At the height of segregation, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to a pioneering medical breakthrough.
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Buffalo Bill
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.
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The Pill
The story behind the development of the oral contraceptive that put women in control of birth control.
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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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Test Tube Babies
The effort of pioneering researchers to conceive babies through in vitro fertilization.
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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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Spy in the Sky
In 1960, Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
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