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  Hijacked! | Timeline

  Conflict in the Middle East (1947-2000)

  Great Britain, which has ruled the area known as Palestine since 1920, announces that it will transfer responsibility to the United Nations in 1947.

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  Film

  Clinton

  A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.

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  Eisenhower | Article

  U-2 Incident

  Official documents record a dialogue between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after an American spy plane goes down in Soviet territory.

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  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.

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  Chasing the Moon | Article

  Wernher von Braun’s Record on Civil Rights

  On June 8, 1965, one of 20th century America’s most notorious racists was stopped in his tracks by a former Nazi preaching racial integration.

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  Stonewall Uprising | Article

  Who was at Stonewall?

  Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives.

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  Clinton | Article

  Cast of Characters

  The four-hour biography of Bill Clinton makes reference to almost 100 different people, including the 53 people interviewed in the film. Get a brief introduction on who is who and how they relate to the Clinton administration.

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  God in America | Article

  People and Ideas: Confronting Modernity/Progressive Era

  The 19th century marked a shift to modernity and progressive ideas in America. Read how religious ideas and individuals' spiritual experiences during this time have impacted American social, political and cultural life.

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  God in America | Article

  Interview: Muzammil Siddiqi

  Imam Siddiqi is the chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America and the educational and religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif. This is an edited transcript of an interview conducted on Jan. 13, 2010.

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  Ruby Ridge | Article

  Patriots of the Insurrectionist Kind

  How the far-right movement’s long-running war on democracy went mainstream.

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  Film

  We Shall Remain

  From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.

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  Reagan | Primary Source

  National Security and SDI

  In a televised address to the nation, delivered on March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear threat. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), later dubbed "Star Wars" by the press, is an idea that remains controversial to this day.

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  Film

  Death and the Civil War

  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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  The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film | Timeline

  World Trade Center (1942-2002)

  A timeline of the World Trade Center, from conception through completion, and its destruction on September 11, 2001.

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  Race for the Superbomb | Article

  Scientists and Mathematicians in America

  Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb. This feature details scientists and mathematicians who worked in the U.S.

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  Earth Days | Timeline

  The Modern Environmental Movement

  Explore a timeline of the environmental movement from 1948 to 1990.

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  Panama Canal | Timeline

  Creating the Canal

  Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building it, the Panama Canal opened to the public. Explore a timeline of events.

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  Film

  The Rockefellers

  Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.

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  Clinton | Article

  Christiane Amanpour

  Christiane Amanpour was famous for asking Bill Clinton about his "flip flop" tendencies in Bosnia. Read the full transcript of her interview. 

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  Film

  Taken Hostage

  Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Unfolding like a political thriller, the story is told through the eyewitness accounts of those who took part in the events.