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  Triangle Fire | Article

  Pauline Newman: Organizer

  Pauline Newman worked tirelessly to organize garment workers around the country. She was devasted by the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. 

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  Return With Honor | Article

  Paris Peace Talks and the Release of POWs

  The United States and Hanoi agreed to enter into preliminary peace talks in Paris in 1968.

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  Film

  The Perfect Crime

  The shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.

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  Film

  Murder of the Century

  In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, was reported "to the ends of the civilized globe"; much of the focus, however, was on Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful showgirl in the center of the love triangle. It was a sensational murder story that had everything: money, power, class, love, rage, lust and revenge.

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  Film

  The Cancer Detectives

  The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer—which was once the number one cancer killer of women.

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  Fly Girls | Primary Source

  Letters and Articles Written by WASPS and WAFS

  Read an article written by Cornelia Fort, the first American woman pilot to die flying a military aircraft, and excerpts from Madge Rutherford Minton's and Mary Anna Martin Wyall's letters home.

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  The Bombing of Germany | Article

  Manfred Gräber

  Manfred Gräber was just a young boy during the bombing of Germany. 

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  George H.W. Bush | Article

  Teacher's Guide

  This teacher's guide has been created to accompany the film, for use in classrooms and other learning spaces.

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  Film

  Mount Rushmore

  High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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  Comic

  The Cryptanalyst Who Brought Down the Mob: Transcript

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  Film

  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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  John Brown's Holy War | Article

  The gathering and John Brown's Fort

   A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), Brown and his men rented a farm as they prepared to launch their raid.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Timeline

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Timeline of Ulysses Grant, from his birth on April 27, 1822, to his death on December 14, 1902.

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  Vietnam: A Television History | Article

  The M.I.A. Issue

  Important questions that won't go away.

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  Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | Article

  The Scottsboro Accusers

  In 1931, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price falsely accused nine black youths of rape. 

   

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  Film

  Nixon's China Game

  In February 1972, after a quarter-century of mutual antagonism between the United States and China, President Richard Nixon traveled to Beijing for an historic encounter with Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  A look at the life of the United States' 32nd president. 

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  Remember the Alamo | Article

  An Alamo Visit

  Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Professor Hardin has served as a historical advisor for television and film productions on Texas history. Here, he answers questions about what it's like to visit the Alamo. 

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  Nixon's China Game | Timeline

  Timeline

  A comprehensive chronology of U.S.-China relations.

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  Article

  Reading By Touch

  Helen Keller was a voracious reader — despite a mess of competing alphabets and a severe lack of accessible books.