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After the Crash
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The most desperate year of the Great Depression -- 1932.
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Chicago rose from a swampy frontier town to become the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.
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Internationally famous carnival of delights, offering everything from the bawdy to the surreal.
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He harnessed electricity and revolutionized the world.
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The story of how San Francisco built one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World."
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One of the greatest engineering works in history.
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The story of the transcontinental railroad.
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Los Mineros
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The story of the Mexican American miners whose labor battles shaped the course of Arizona history.
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Carl Fisher, the man who invented Miami Beach.
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Mr. Sears' Catalogue
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A story of entrepreneurial triumph as well as an affectionate portrait of America from the 1890s through the 1920s.
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The history of a great city, and the forces that have shaped it.
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Postwar New York and the global economic order -- told through the story of the rise, destruction, and afterlife of the World Trade Center.
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The story behind the development of the drug that put women in control of birth control.
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A look at the poor emigrant boy who built a fortune and then began to systematically give it all away.
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No American family was as powerful, as admired -- or as hated.
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How James Eads, one of America's greatest engineers, tamed the mighty Mississippi.
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Sit Down And Fight -- Walter Reuther & The Rise Of The Auto Workers Union
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In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles fought in the history of the American labor movement.
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Ingenious entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, armies of workers, and Native Americans figure in the remarkable story of how a railroad was built connecting California to the East.
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A personal story of one family's dramatic effort to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures sweep the nation.
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The plastic food container that became a phenomenally successful business -- and an American cultural icon.
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Wildcatter -- A Story of Texas Oil
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The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry.
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He transformed photography -- and the way people view the world.
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A Utah farm boy sketches out the idea for electronic television.
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He harnessed electricity and revolutionized the world.
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The story of how San Francisco built one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World."
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One of the greatest engineering works in history.
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The worst epidemic in American history.
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The story of the transcontinental railroad.
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A series of malfunctions, mistakes, and misinterpretations lead to the country's worst nuclear accident.
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The story of a temperamental artist and the creation of the world's largest piece of sculpture.
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The New York public transportation system -- the largest public works project in history.
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Postwar New York and the global economic order -- told through the story of the rise, destruction, and afterlife of the World Trade Center.
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The story behind the development of the drug that put women in control of birth control.
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The Radio Priest
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Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first media stars.
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Wireless telegraphy is used in 1909 to rescue more than 1,500 lives after two ships collide in dense fog.
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The Satellite Sky
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A uniquely impressionistic history of the early years of the Space Race.
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How James Eads, one of America's greatest engineers, tamed the mighty Mississippi.
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Spy in the Sky
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The plane provided a high-tech peek behind the Iron Curtain.
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Sleek designs and revolutionary diesel engines made the U.S. passenger rail system the envy of the world -- but within two decades the era of these supertrains was over.
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Telegrams from the Dead
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A new religion called spiritualism affects the nation as no other ever had.
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The birth of the device that transformed American life.
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Ingenious entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, armies of workers, and Native Americans figure in the remarkable story of how a railroad was built connecting California to the East.
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The plastic food container that became a phenomenally successful business -- and an American cultural icon.
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He transformed photography -- and the way people view the world.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright build the flying machine.
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