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  Rachel Carson (español)

  Un retrato íntimo de la mujer cuyos innovadores escritos revolucionaron nuestra relación con el mundo natural y dieron inicio al movimiento ambiental moderno.

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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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  Freedom Summer

  A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Timeline

  Alexander Hamilton Chronology

  Alexander Hamilton was born on the British island of Nevis in the West Indies, the second of two boys.

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  The French Revolution

  The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution.

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  Running for President

  Since our country's first presidential election in 1788, the strategies of those campaigning have changed dramatically.

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  Patriots Day

  The film follows the re-enactors as they shuffle between their 18th- and 21st-century lives. It captures them building sets, planning military engagements, drilling, rehearsing battles as well as celebrating Thanksgiving, moving house and working. In the end it shows that patriotism, a love of costumes, civic duty, an urge to perform and a passion for history all play a role in these Americans' lives.

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  Citizen King

  In August 1963, a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism.

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  The Sun Queen (español)

  La científica Mária Telkes dedicó su carrera a aprovechar la energía del sol. Menospreciada por sus colegas, todos hombres, perseveró; diseñó con éxito la primera casa con calefacción solar en 1948 y obtuvo más de 20 patentes.

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  The Circus

  The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time.

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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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  The Kennedys | Article

  Adam Clymer

  In October, 2003, Journalist Adam Clymer of The New York Times, author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, discussed the youngest of Joe and Rose Kennedy’s children.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  The Doctors

  Both doctors, Joseph Warren and Benjamin Church were closely connected to the events of April 18-19, 1775, and thus to the American Revolution as a whole. 

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  Ansel Adams | Article

  Adams' Photo Gear

  Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. 

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  The American Vice President

  What happens when the president is unable to serve? Explore the dramatic period between 1963 and 1976, when a grief-stricken, then scandal-stricken America was forced to define the role of the vice president and the process of succession.

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  Ansel Adams | Article

  Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

  Adams was a very active child, and felt restricted in school, which he found meaningless. When he was 13, his father began to tutor him at home.

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  Freedom Summer (español)

  Un histórico esfuerzo en el verano de 1964 por destrozar los cimientos de la supremacía blanca en lo que era uno de los estados más agresivamente racistas y segregados del país.

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  The Chinese Exclusion Act

  The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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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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  Remember the Alamo

  In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos.