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    Goin' Back To T-Town

    Aired May 23, 2023 | 53 min

    Revisit a thriving Black community in Tulsa, which rebuilt after a 1921 racially-motivated massacre.

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    The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Aired May 29, 2018 | 120 min

    The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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    The Great War

    Aired July 3, 2018 | 5 hrs 42 min

    Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.

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    Murder of a President

    Aired February 2, 2016 | 112 min

    The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman.

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    The Big Burn

    Aired September 7, 2022 | 53 min

    In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.

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    Klansville U.S.A.

    Aired January 13, 2015 | 52 min

    In the 1960s, North Carolina's KKK membership grew to some ten thousand members, earning the state a new nickname: "Klansville, U.S.A."

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    Freedom Summer

    Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

    A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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    Freedom Summer (español)

    Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

    Un histórico esfuerzo en el verano de 1964 por destrozar los cimientos de la supremacía blanca en lo que era uno de los estados más agresivamente racistas y segregados del país.

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    1964

    Aired January 14, 2014 | 112 min

    America came apart in 1964 and has since been reborn.

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    JFK

    Aired November 12, 2013 | 3 hrs 41 min

    Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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    The Abolitionists

    Aired January 8, 2013 | 2 hrs 34 min

    Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.

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    Death and the Civil War

    Aired September 18, 2012

    The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.

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