A diverse group, the members of Peoples Temple shared a common goal: to create an egalitarian society free of problems of class and race.
Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones carefully revealed only as much of himself as he needed to to any given audience.
Today, our government provides services for surviving veterans and their families, but it took the mass casualties of the Civil War to bring about this standard.
The Civil War in America holds the highest number of average deaths per day.
For four years, Union and Confederate soldiers battled during the bloodiest war in American history.
Watch an extended preview of Death and the Civil War.
A photo gallery of images from the Civil War battlefields.
Executive Producer Mark Samels describes why no other TV series would tackle this subject.
Filmmaker Ric Burns discusses the intricacies of making Death and the Civil War.
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A clear-eyed look at the political and social changes wrought by the pervasiveness of death during the Civil War.
In the early 1600s, a group of religious radicals left for the New World.
