Special Features
- Biography: Harold Ickes
- General Article: Building Boulder City
- General Article: Hiring African Americans
- Biography: Frank Crowe
- Preview: Hoover Dam Preview
- General Article: The Controversial Naming of the Dam
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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Did you or a family member experience life in America in the 1930s? What does the decade mean to you? Share your American experience with us.
Panama Canal
The most daring and innovative accomplishment at the turn of the 20th century.
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Big Dream, Small Screen
A Utah farm boy builds a prototype for a television, but is thwarted by movie studio executives wanting to control the technology.
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Grand Central
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
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The Way West
A six-hour series on how the West was lost and won, from the Gold Rush in 1848 until Wounded Knee in 1893.
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Rescue at Sea
When two passenger ships collide off Nantucket in 1909, 1,500 people rely on 26-year-old Jack Binns to operate a new technology - wireless telegraphy - to save them all.
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Custer's Last Stand
The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.
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New York: The Center of the World
Postwar New York City and the global economic order told through the story of the World Trade Center.
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