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  Rachel Carson

  An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.

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  Custer's Last Stand

  The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.

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  Two Days in October

  In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control.

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  The Berlin Airlift

  It could have been the start of World War III. Instead, it became the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen. On June 24, 1948, one of the first major crises of the Cold War occurred when the Soviet Union blocked railroad and street access to West Berlin. For nearly a year two million civilians and twenty thousand allied soldiers in the city's western sector were fed and fueled entirely from the air.

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  American Coup: Wilmington 1898

  The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.

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  Eisenhower | Article

  Letters to Mamie

  Excerpts from Eisenhower's letters home to his wife, Mamie, during World War II.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad

  The remarkable story of greed, innovation and gritty determination to build a railroad connecting California to the East.

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  American Experience | America and the Holocaust

  Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the US had an opportunity to open its doors, but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country. It was not until 1944, that a small band of Treasury Department employees forced the government to respond. 

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  Return With Honor | Article

  The Tap Code

  One of the most important parts of a POW's life was communicating with his fellow captives.

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  The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

  A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

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  Woodrow Wilson

  President Woodrow Wilson led America during World War I, created the Federal Reserve, and helped create the League of Nations. Part of the award-winning collection  The Presidents.

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  JFK | Primary Source

  Letter from Khrushchev to Castro, 10/30/62

  The Soviet leader analyzes the outcome of the crisis and justifies his actions to Castro.

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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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  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 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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  The Greely Expedition

  In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism. 

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  Walt Whitman

  He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

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  Truman | Primary Source

  Letter from Henry Stimson to Truman

  Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Truman, informing him about the atomic bomb.

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  The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

  In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

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  American Comandante

  American comandante William Morgan went to Cuba to help Fidel Castro return the country to a democracy. Instead, four years later, he was executed.