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  John Tyler

  Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency.

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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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  Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Timeline

  Reconstruction Timeline

  Follow a chronology of post-Civil War nationbuilding efforts.

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  Taken Hostage | Image Gallery

  The Presidents and the Shah: A Strategic Partnership

  Explore a gallery capturing the close ties between the last Shah  of Iran and six U.S. Presidents over a span of three decades.

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  Murder of a President | Article

  The Little-Known President

  James Garfield served just 200 days as president. Here are some little-known facts about him.

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  Earth Days

  A meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements and missed opportunities of eco-activism.

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  Cold War Roadshow

  In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America, creating a media circus as he traveled from coast to coast.

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  Kissinger | Primary Source

  Remarks at the Swearing In of Henry A. Kissinger as Secretary of State

  Henry A. Kissinger's remarks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State, September 22, 1973.

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  Hard Hat Riot

  Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.

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  Murder of a President | Article

  American Presidential Assassinations

  In the country's early years, many people believed the young democratic republic was immune to political violence. 

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  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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  FDR | Primary Source

  The Neutrality Act of 1937

  The law defining rules for exports, financial transactions, and other interactions under the banner of wartime neutrality.

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  The American Vice President (español)

  ¿Qué sucede cuando el presidente no puede ejercer su cargo? Explore el dramático período entre 1963 y 1976, cuando un Estados Unidos afligido y luego azotado por los escándalos se vio obligado a definir el papel del vicepresidente y el proceso de sucesión.

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  The American Vice President | Article

  10 Surprising Facts About U.S. Vice Presidents

  Here are 10 surprising facts about some of the most intriguing VPs in American history.

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  Reagan | Primary Source

  Book Excerpt: President Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime

  Read the preface to the 2000 edition of the book, "President Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime," by Lou Cannon.

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  Thomas Marshall

  A cheerful, self-deprecating politician from Indiana, Thomas Marshall served dutifully as Woodrow Wilson's vice president.

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  Jimmy Carter

  One of the greatest dramas in American politics, President Jimmy Carter was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat in 1980, only to become one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.

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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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  Barack H. Obama

  Barack Obama was the first African-American to serve as President of the United States.

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  Kissinger | Article

  The Presidents on Kissinger

  He served directly under two presidents and advised ten others. What did seven decades of U.S. presidents think of Dr. Henry Kissinger?