The remarkable story of greed, innovation and gritty determination to build a railroad connecting California to the East. Peopled by the ingenious entrepreneurs whose unscrupulous financing got the line laid, the brilliant engineers who charted the railroad's course and hurdled the geological obstacles in its way, the armies of workers who labored relentlessly on the enterprise, and the Native Americans whose lives were destroyed in its wake, The Transcontinental Railroad reveals both why the railroad was built and how it would shape the nation, while shedding light on the politics and culture of mid-19th century America.
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A gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry, and one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
As the star attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Annie Oakley thrilled audiences around the world with her shooting feats. Part of the Wild West collection.
The New Deal program CCC put three million young men to work in camps across America.
The effort of pioneering researchers to conceive babies through in vitro fertilization.
A personal story of one family's dramatic effort to hold onto their family farm in Iowa as massive foreclosures sweep the nation in the 1990s.
The story behind the development of the oral contraceptive that put women in control of birth control.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
