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  The Nuremberg Trials | Timeline

  Timeline: The War in Europe and its Aftermath

  Read about key events of World War II, and its aftermath.

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  Murder of a President | Chapter

  Murder of a President: Chapter 1

  Watch the opening scene of Murder of a President.

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  Film

  Tesla

  Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century.

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  Film

  Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory

  In the chaotic decade following the Civil War, a group of young ex-slaves in Nashville, Tennessee, set out on a mission to save their financially troubled school by giving concerts. 

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  Race for the Superbomb | Article

  Atomic Energy Commission

  Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb. This feature details the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, including its formation, activities and the 1953 Oppenheimer hearings.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Article

  Your Constitution I.Q.

  How well do you know your government? Take this quiz about the debate over the Constitution.

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  Nixon's China Game | Article

  Kissinger Interview

  In this extended interview, Henry Kissinger discusses his role in Nixon's historic visit to China.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  Oakes Ames

  "King of Spades" Oakes Ames, a Massachusetts businessman and politician, made his money as part of of Ames & Sons, a shovelworks founded by his father and administered by brother Oliver. The transcontinental railroad would bring him even more wealth -- until 1873, when the Crédit Mobilier scandal destroyed his career.

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  The Duel | Primary Source

  Suggestions for the Classroom

  Has political scandal mongering in the media changed?  Ask students to research political leaders in the 1700 and 1800.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  Leland Stanford

  Slow to speak, a deliberate thinker, Stanford was characterized by a plodding nature that repeatedly vexed his railroad partners. However, he relished public life, and it was in this capacity that he best served the Central Pacific.

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  George W. Bush | Clip

  Neocons and Moderates

  President Bush assembled a team of rivals to form his cabinet.

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  Article

  Rhetoric Revisited: FDR’s “Infamy” Speech

  A speechwriter dissects Franklin Roosevelt’s famous Pearl Harbor address.

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  Film

  Race for the Superbomb

  At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. This program aired in January, 1999.

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  Video Gallery

  What About the Economy?

  From energy crisis to recession and the financial crisis in 2008, how have our presidents handled the economy, Watch these clips from American Experience's Presidents Collection.

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  Film

  Kissinger

  Kissinger is the story of the brilliant powerbroker who rose to the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Revered or reviled, Henry Kissinger’s contradictions reflect those at the heart of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century.

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  Mount Rushmore | Article

  Lincoln Borglum

  He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincon, who, probably not coincidentally, was the subject of the work that made Gutzon's national reputation as a sculptor.

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  The Nuremberg Trials | Article

  The Nuremberg Judges

  Each of the four Allied countries that had formed the International Military Tribunal provided one judge and one alternate for the court that convened in the fall of 1945.

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  American Experience | America and the Holocaust | Article

  Breckinridge Long (1881 -1958)

  During the Holocaust, the U.S. State Department official in charge of matters concerning European refugees was Breckinridge Long, an extreme nativist with a particular suspicion of Eastern Europeans.

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  Chasing the Moon | Article

  Raised Fists and Lunar Rockets

  Black activists demanded the resources for space be brought back to earth.

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  LBJ | Primary Source

  A Day of Mourning After the Death of Dr. King, 1968

  LBJ announces that Sunday, April 7, 1968 will be a national day of mourning.