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  Ripley: Believe It or Not

  Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. We still can’t resist his challenge to “Believe it — or not!”

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  Patriots Day | Article

  Writing History and Living History

  Most of the historical facts seem relatively easy to corroborate, but how the events were interpreted decisively altered the development of the nation.

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  The Big Burn

  In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.

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  Reagan | Primary Source

  Reagan's Farewell Speech

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

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  The Vote

  One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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  Alexander Hamilton

  The underappreciated genius who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy — including the banking system, Wall Street, and an "opportunity society" in which talent and hard work, not birth, determined success.

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  Biography: Abigail Adams

   Like young girls of her time, Abigail lacked a formal education, but from youth she was intelligent, well read, and outspoken.

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  McCarthy

  McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-communist crusade would test the limits of American decency and democracy.

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  Ansel Adams

  From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent.

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  Billy Graham

  Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.

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  My Lai

  What drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history?

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  Patriots Day | Article

  April 19: How It Began and Ended

  On April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren saw the British regulars mobilizing in Boston. By the end of next day, however, no man who had stood on the field of battle had any doubt that the Colonies were at war with Britain.

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  Hard Hat Riot

  Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.

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  Reagan

  A passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century — and one of the most controversial.

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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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  The Civilian Conservation Corps

  One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.

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  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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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Prelude to the Red Scare: The Espionage and Sedition Acts

  The roots of America's first Red Scare extended deep into the preceding years.

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  A Brilliant Madness | Article

  Cold War Hysteria

  In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party. 

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  The Great War

  Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.