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  Two Days in October | Article

  Student Protesters

  As the Vietnam War escalated, more and more students at the University of Wisconsin were drawn into the demonstrations.

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  Two Days in October | Article

  Protests and Backlash

  As the Vietnam War esclated, protests grew in strength, some turning violent. They also triggered backlash.

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  John Adams' Diplomatic Missions

  Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. 

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  Jesse James | Article

  Reconstruction Politics in Missouri

  Once ex-Confederates triumphed in Missouri politics, they no longer had any use for a criminal like James.

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  Lindbergh | Article

  The Kidnapping

  The abduction of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. and the subsequent "Trial of the Century"

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Eleanor's Take on the Day

  Eleanor Roosevelt's thoughts on women, prohibition, space, television, and much more. 

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  1964

  America came apart in 1964 and has since been reborn.

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  The Duel | Article

  Alexander Hamilton

  This Founding Father came to America alone at age 15. He fought at Washington's side in the Revolution, helped ensure the ratification of the Constitution, and saved the fledgling United States from financial ruin. 

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  Biography: James Callender

  James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one of the nastiest in history.

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  Jesse James | Article

  Biography: Jesse James

  A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. 

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  The Great War | Article

  Master of American Propaganda

  How George Creel sold the Great War to America, and America to the world.

   

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  My Lai | Article

  Interview: Author Tim O'Brien

  Almost a year before O'Brian's arrival in the same area, a platoon from the American Division had been responsible for the massacre at My Lai.

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  Film

  Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

  Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans — Southern and Northern, white and black — as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down.

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  Bataan Rescue | Article

  The Moment of Liberation

  The men couldn't take anything with them: diaries, photographs, letters, jackets, coats, shoes. They simply had to flee. 

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  Mr. Tornado

  Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of the man whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thousands of lives and helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous weather phenomena.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  Julia Dent Grant

  Although her marriage to Ulysses S. Grant would deliver romance and adventure, Julia suffered loneliness and hardship along the way.

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  Film

  The Great Fever

  In 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the nineteenth century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana, they began testing the radical theories of Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever.

   

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  Billy the Kid

  The boy behind the myth, who in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan to the most feared man in the West and an enduring icon. Part of The Wild West collection.

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  Emma Goldman | Timeline

  Anarchism and Emma Goldman

  Learn about the life and times of anarchist Emma Goldman.

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  Return With Honor | Article

  Sybil Stockdale on Being the Wife of a POW

  In their book, In Love and War,Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale and his wife Sybil wrote about their lives during the eight years Jim was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.