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  Battle of the Bulge | Timeline

  World War II in Europe

  In 1939, the Russians and the Germans sign a non-aggression pact. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree not to invade each other's borders.

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  Film

  The Polio Crusade

  The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The medical breakthrough saved countless lives and had a pervasive impact on American philanthropy that continues to be felt today.

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  Article

  Democracy Way, Part 2

  A two-part series about Pennsylvania Avenue and its place in our nation’s capital and in American history. This is the second and final part. Read Part One here.

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  Las Vegas: An Unconventional History | Map

  Putting Las Vegas on the Map

  Survey the Las Vegas area and examine highlights of its development.

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  Hard Hat Riot | Article

  The Rise and Fall of John Lindsay

  Charisma, crisis, and the battle to lead New York through its most turbulent years.

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Walt Whitman and the Civil War

  While in Washington, D.C., Whitman discovered that he had something to contribute to the war effort — himself.

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  The Nuremberg Trials | Article

  The International Military Tribunal

  In the Moscow Declaration of October 1943, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin formally stated their determination to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. 

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  The Mormons | Article

  Brigham Young (1801-1877)

  Fiery yet full of doubt, frequently ill yet strong when it mattered most, Brigham Young took charge of the Mormons in the wake of the prophet Joseph Smith's death and finally found them a lasting home.

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  The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Article

  The Producers

  Meet the producers who made The Battle Over Citizen Kane.

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  Film

  The Quiz Show Scandal

  When CBS premiered "The $64,000 Question" in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. More quiz shows followed. What the audience was to learn, much later, was that many of these shows were fixed. Slowly, painfully, the deceit unravelled. A look at the formative years of television and the scandal's impact on the TV business and a naive America.

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  Panama Canal | Timeline

  Creating the Canal

  Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building it, the Panama Canal opened to the public. Explore a timeline of events.

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  Clinton | Article

  James Carville

  Campaign strategist James Carville helped elect Bill Clinton. He shares his insights in this interview. 

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  The Duel | Article

  Hamilton and the U.S. Constitution

  No one was better prepared to defend the Constitution than New Yorker Alexander Hamilton.

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  Golden Gate Bridge | Article

  1930s Engineering

  An interview with Prof. Andrew J. Dunar, who teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 

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  MacArthur | Article

  General George C. Marshall

  The only man to ever serve as both secretary of state and secretary of defense, his greatest achievement may have been devising the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt a devastated Europe after World War II. 

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  American Experience | America and the Holocaust | Article

  Will Rogers, Jr. (1911-1993)

  Will Rogers, Jr. was one of the most active agitators on Capitol Hill in favor of U.S. efforts to rescue the Jews in Europe. And what he achieved really made a difference

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  Test Tube Babies | Article

  Howard and Georgeanna Jones

  Drs. Howard and Georgeanna Jones postponed their retirement to open an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in Virginia and ended up presiding over the birth of America’s first test tube baby.

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  Film

  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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  Malcolm X: Make it Plain

  If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In Omaha, he was Malcolm Little; later he became "Detroit Red," a small time street hustler. From prison emerged another Malcolm, the fiery, eloquent spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After a trip to Mecca, there was a last transformation — a new willingness to accept white allies. Who killed him and why has never been fully explained.

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  Klansville U.S.A.

  In the 1960s, North Carolina's KKK membership grew to some ten thousand members, earning the state a new nickname: "Klansville, U.S.A."