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  The Kennedys | Article

  Adam Clymer

  In October, 2003, Journalist Adam Clymer of The New York Times, author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, discussed the youngest of Joe and Rose Kennedy’s children.

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  Truman | Primary Source

  Letter from Albert Einstein to FDR, 3/25/45

  Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt about nuclear physicist Dr. Leo Szilard, 1945.

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  Tupperware! | Timeline

  Women, Work, and Plastics

  From the 1950s to 2003,  a timeline of key events that chronicle the evolution of women, work, and the history of Tupperware.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Article

  Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), a Profile

  Hamilton rose to become a Revolutionary War hero, an advocate for the Constitution, and a rescuer of the nascent American government from financial ruin.

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  Reagan | Primary Source

  Alzheimer's Letter

  On November 5, 1994, former President Ronald Reagan published a letter to the American people announcing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. 

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  Dearest Friend

  John and Abigail Adams wrote over a thousand letters to each other while John was away from home helping found a new nation.

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  Panama Canal | Article

  Chief Engineers of the Panama Canal

  During the decade-long American effort to build the Panama Canal, the project had three different Chief Engineers. 

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  Film

  Remember the Alamo

  In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos.

   

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  Video Gallery

  How Important is Military Service?

  A combat pilot, a nuclear submarine officer and Mr. U.S.A? Find out more about U.S. presidents and their military experience.

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  Race to the Moon | Article

  Mission Control, Houston

  NASA had always been managed from Langley Field near Washington, D.C. But the moon landing President John Kennedy envisioned required a huge expansion that was not possible at Langley.

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  Wilson's Election in 1912

  When the Republican Party split, Wilson won the election. 

   

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  American Comandante | Article

  Pre-Castro Cuba

  Before the revolution, Cuba was one of the most advanced and successful countries in Latin America.

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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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  The Ballad of Pancho Villa

  The mostly-true story of a rogue Mexican general who crossed the U.S. border and raided a New Mexico town is immortalized in this corrido. 

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  Wilson and Women's Suffrage

  At first, Wilson seemed bemused by the picketers. He tipped his hat and smiled.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  Grant's Funeral March

  The column of mourners who accompanied Grant was seven miles long. Among those mourners were three presidents.

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  Film

  The Island Murder

  In 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made an allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders.

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  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Article

  The Co-Conspirators

  Meet the key players involved in the assassintation of Abraham Lincoln.

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  Film

  Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act

  The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film highlights the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to pass the legislation that changed the lives of all Americans.

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  Film

  Emma Goldman

  A notorious lecturer, fearless writer, and merciless publisher, Goldman was one of the most controversial women in America.