Special Features
- Photo Gallery: Who Was Jim Jones?
- General Article: Race and the Peoples Temple
- Biography: Leo Joseph Ryan
- General Article: The Peoples Temple in Guyana
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Biography: Jim Jones
In 1978 over 900 people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists.
Chicago: City of the Century
The story of Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town to a massive metropolis in the nineteenth century.
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History
Originally settled as a mail stop, Las Vegas changed from an Old West vacation town, to a mafia haven, to the "Atomic City" and "Sin City."
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Forever Baseball
A wry philosophical essay on what makes baseball the great American pastime.
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Ballad of a Mountain Man
Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his campaign to preserve mountain music and dance.
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Henry Ford
The story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst fought to suppress a film by Orson Welles, a film that would become one of cinema's masterpieces.
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Patriots Day
This film follows the 65 "British soldiers" and 67 "American rebels" who reenact the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord.
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Murder at Harvard
Accused by a janitor, a respected Harvard professor was hanged for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, one of Boston's richest citizens, in 1849.
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