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  • Eyes on the Prize | Article

    People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1

    Learn about key figures during the civil rights movement.

  • Film

    Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (español)

    Monopoly es el juego de mesa favorito de Estados Unidos, una carta de amor al capitalismo desenfrenado y a nuestra sociedad de libre mercado. Pero detrás del mito de su creación hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesión y un doble juego corporativo.

  • Film

    RFK

    When an assassin took his brother's life, Robert Kennedy was bereft of someone he loved, and of a role that had given his life meaning. As he began to move beyond the shadow of his brother, he, too, was assassinated.

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    Reagan | Primary Source

    Reagan's Farewell Speech

    In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan delivered this farewell speech.

  • Film

    The Pilgrims

    The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620.

  • Film

    LBJ (español)

    LBJ aprovechó su dominio del proceso legislativo para llevar con asombroso éxito al Congreso una serie de programas progresistas, pero su visión de una Gran Sociedad se hundió en el atolladero de Vietnam.

  • The Great Transatlantic Cable | Timeline

    Timeline

    The Transatlantic Cable chronology.

  • The Great Transatlantic Cable | Timeline

    The Great Transatlantic Cable

    Benjamin FranklinIn June 1792, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous experiments with electricity.

  • Film

    The Riot Report

    When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

  • Film

    The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

  • George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | Timeline

    George Wallace's Life

    A chronology of Wallace's life (1919-1998).

  • LBJ | Primary Source

    Address to Congress -- We Shall Overcome, 1965

    LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.

  • Film

    Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of America's least understood presidents. Part of the award-winning collection The Presidents.

  • Miss America | Timeline

    Miss America Timeline

    A timeline of the pageant and American women's history. 

  • Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

    Eleanor Roosevelt and Race

    Read excerpts of an interview with writer Vernon Jarrett about Eleanor Roosevelt and race.

  • Film

    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.

  • Film

    The Movement and the “Madman” (español)

    Descubra la historia de cómo se enfrentaron el presidente Nixon y el movimiento contra la guerra en 1969. Contada a través de relatos de primera mano, la película revela cómo los líderes del movimiento movilizaron a grupos dispares para crear dos protestas masivas que cambiaron la historia.

  • Film

    Oklahoma City

    Explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement — including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco — led to the the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.

  • Film

    Malcolm X: Make it Plain

    If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In Omaha, he was Malcolm Little; later he became "Detroit Red," a small time street hustler. From prison emerged another Malcolm, the fiery, eloquent spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After a trip to Mecca, there was a last transformation — a new willingness to accept white allies. Who killed him and why has never been fully explained.

  • Article

    Sleepy Lagoon Defendants

    The young men who were convicted of murder in the notorious 1942 Sleepy Lagoon case.