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One Woman, One Vote (no web site available)

The infighting, the alliances and betrayals, defeats and victories on the way to winning the right to vote.

The Orphan Trains

Between 1854 and 1929 more than 100,000 children were sent by train to the Midwest to begin new lives in foster families.

Orphans of the Storm (no web site available)

In the summer of 1940, 10,000 British children were sent on a perilous sea voyage to safe havens in the United States.

Partners of the Heart

At the height of segregation in the United States, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to some of the 20th century's pioneering medical breakthroughs.

Patriots Day

In 1775, local American militias routed the British at the Battle of Lexington and Concord -- but 65 men of His Majesty's 10th Regiment and 67 American rebels are still fighting today.

Pearl Harbor -- Surprise And Remembrance (no web site available)

A minute-by-minute account, on both sides of the Pacific, leading up to the surprise attack that Sunday morning.

The Pill

The story behind the development of the drug that put women in control of birth control.

Public Enemy #1

The legendary outlaw John Dillinger.

The Quiz Show Scandal

A look at the formative years of television and the scandal's impact on the TV business and a naive America.

Race for the Superbomb

The U.S. and the Soviet Union race to build the world's most powerful bomb.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (no web site available)

Her warning sparked a revolution in environmental policy and created a new ecological consciousness.

Radio Bikini (no web site available)

While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests.

The Radio Priest (no web site available)

Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars.

Reagan
(More about Ronald Reagan on The Presidents Web site)

The life of the president who saw America as a "shining city on a hill" and himself as its heroic defender.

Reconstruction The Second Civil War

The stories of ordinary people, North and South, in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union and integrate former slaves into the life of the nation.

Remember the Alamo

In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Under Mexican rule, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers, and 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos. With war on the horizon, the Tejanos had to pick a side.

Rescue at Sea

Wireless telegraphy is used in 1909 to rescue more than 1,500 lives after two ships collide in dense fog.

Return With Honor

The moving story of American prisoners of war in North Vietnam.

The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie

A look at the poor emigrant boy who built a fortune and then began to systematically give it all away.

Riding the Rails

The evocative stories of teen hoboes crisscrossing America during the Depression.

The Rockefellers

No American family was as powerful, as admired -- or as hated.

Roots of Resistance -- The Story of the Underground Railroad (no web site available)

Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery.