Last Days in Vietnam |
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News footage shows the panic permeating South Vietnam leading up to the Fall of Saigon in April, 1975.
Last Days in Vietnam |
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In 1975, Consul General Terry McNamara and Marine Consulate Guard Steve Hasty were in Can Tho, 78 miles southwest of Saigon.
The Forgotten Plague |
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Starting in the 1840s, health-seekers fanned out across the United States in search for "the cure."Â
The Forgotten Plague |
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As the scientific knowledge of tuberculosis progressed, the prejudice towards people with the disease eased.Â
The Forgotten Plague |
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As tuberculosis plagued the nation, towns like Los Angeles and Denver grew as health-seekers traveled west to climates that promised to cure.
The Big Burn |
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In 1910, a wildfire burned an area the size of Connecticut and killed at least 78 firefighters in just 36 hours.
The Big Burn |
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At the turn of the 20th century, Gifford Pinchot was the nation's preeminent forester.Â
The Big Burn |
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Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot saw fighting forest fires as being essential to the new Forest Service's mission.
The Big Burn |
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After the Big Burn, Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot publicizes the selfless actions of the fire fighters who lost their lives in the blaze.Â
The Big Burn |
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In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt worried that unless America's forests were protected and regulated, the nation's forests would soon disappear.Â
The Big Burn |
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In the summer of 1910, the Forest Service had less than 500 rangers nationwide.
Klansville U.S.A. |
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The Ku Klux Klan has been a presence in America on and off since Reconstruction in the late 1800s, using symbols as powerful intimidation tools.
