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  The Bombing of Wall Street

  The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

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  Miss America

  Tracking the country's oldest beauty contest — from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country's most popular events — Miss America paints a vivid picture of an institution that has come to reveal much about a changing nation. 

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  The Living Weapon

  The international race to develop biological weapons during the 20th century.

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  Lindbergh

  At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh — handsome, talented, and brave — arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic. But the struggle to wear the mantle of legend would be a consuming one. Crowds pursued him, reporters invaded his private life. His marriage, travels with his wife and the kidnapping and murder of their first child were all fodder for the front page.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  The Reenactors

  From teens to septuagenarians, the one thing reenactors share is an enthusiasm for learning and a keen appreciation of history.

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  The Crash of 1929

  The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.

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  Mount Rushmore

  High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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  Influenza 1918 | Article

  The Flu in Boston

  In early September, city officials in Boston were caught off guard when three civilians dropped dead of influenza. 

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  Riveted: The History of Jeans | Article

  Rosie the Riveter Isn’t Who You Think She Is

  The real story behind a WWII icon.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  The Aftermath

  In the aftermath of April 19, 1775, would be immortalized as a mythic American moment, in poems, engravings, songs, and in celebrated phrases like Ralph Waldo Emerson's "the shot heard round the world."

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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.

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  America 1900

  America 1900 presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the United States at the turn of the century.

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  The American Diplomat

  Explore the lives and legacies of three African American ambassadors who broke racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and left a lasting impact on the Foreign Service.

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  Stephen Foster

  Stephen Foster was the first great American songwriter. His melodies are so much a part of American history and culture that most people think they're folk tunes. All in all he composed some 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna" "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Camptown Races." Though he virtually invented popular music as we recognize it today, Foster's personal life was tragic and contradiction-riddled. His marriage was largely unhappy, he never made much money from his work and he died at the age of 37 a nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery in New York.

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  Bombshell

  Bombshell explores how the U.S. manipulated the narrative about the impact of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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  The Man Behind Hitler

  A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success. Goebbels, called the "genius of spin" and the "Reich-Liar-General," was a complicated man whose attitudes fluctuated between extremes of self-pity and grandiose excess. 

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  Influenza 1918 | Article

  The Flu in Philadelphia

   The Philadelphia Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the so-called Spanish Influenza as early as July 1918. 

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  Houdini | Article

  Jack and Charmian London

  Jack London and Harry Houdini quickly became friends when they met in 1915. But on that day, they would have been shocked to know what their future held: London would soon be dead, and not long after Houdini would carry on an affair with his widow.

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  The Fight | Article

  Joe Louis (1914-1981)

  When a friend took Louis to Brewster's East Side Gymnasium and introduced him to boxing, he fell in love with the sport.

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  Influenza 1918 | Article

  The Flu in San Francisco

  San Francisco was spared during the first wave of influenza in the spring of 1918. But as the second wave took its toll on eastern cities, the city prepared for a possible onslaught.