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  The Gilded Age

  Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance contrasted harshly with the poverty of the struggling workers who challenged them. The vast disparities between them sparked debates still raging today.

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  Seabiscuit | Article

  Seabiscuit's Obituary

  America’s favorite underdog died young, succumbing to a heart attack at age 14.

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  George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | Article

  Selma March

  On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama.

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  The Rockefellers

  Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.

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  Dinosaur Wars

  In the late 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West, including dozens of previously undiscovered dinosaur species. But the rivalry that developed between them would spiral out of control, permanently damaging their careers and threatening the future of American paleontology.

   

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  Annie Oakley | Article

  Biography: Frank Butler

  Although he never expected to be shooting against a woman, Frank Butler accepted defeat from Annie Oakley graciously.

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  Roads to Memphis

  On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrative of the killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society.

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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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  The Great Fever

  In 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the nineteenth century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana, they began testing the radical theories of Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever.

   

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  Seabiscuit | Article

  George Woolf

  Woolf earned his spurs riding in Montana and soon became a phenomenon in the minor leagues of racing.

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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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  Murder at Harvard | Article

  Boston Brahmins

  The term "Boston Brahmins" refers to a class of wealthy, educated, elite members of Boston society in the nineteenth century.

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  Eugene O'Neill | Article

  A Controversial Play

  Even before it premiered in a small New York theater in May 1924, the play caused controversy because it depicted a relationship between a white woman and a black man.

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  Roberto Clemente

  An in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar. 
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  Vietnam: A Television History | Article

  Writers reflect on the Vietnam War

  Read personal essays from some of the writres connected with the Vietnam War. 

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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

  Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how the town – and America – were transformed.

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  Tupperware!

  In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands — even millions — of dollars from bowls that burped.

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  Robert E. Lee

  Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.

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  The Kennedys

  A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy. From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street, through John, Robert and Edward's successes and scandals, the family has left a storied political legacy.

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  George H.W. Bush

  The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to the Oval Office, and his role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.