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  The Rockefellers | Primary Source

  The Ludlow Massacre

  A lot more than 2,000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at Ludlow.

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  Film

  TR

  Author, soldier, scientist, outdoorsman and caring father, he was the youngest man to become president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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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 Mine Wars | Article

  Violence & Political Expression

  Scholars discuss violence, militancy, and political struggle at the time of Mother Jones and the miners' unionization movement.

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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Article

  Sharecropping: Slavery Rerouted

  Though slavery was abolished in 1865, sharecropping would keep most Black Southerners impoverished and immobile for decades to come.

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  Monkey Trial | Article

  Clarence Darrow

  In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. 

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  Film

  American Coup: Wilmington 1898

  The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.

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  Citizen Hearst

  Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Wielding unprecedented power, Hearst forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Prelude to the Red Scare: The Espionage and Sedition Acts

  The roots of America's first Red Scare extended deep into the preceding years.

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  Film

  FDR

  Engendering both admiration and scorn, FDR exerted unflinching leadership during the most tumultuous period in U.S. history since the Civil War and was the most vital figure in the nation during his 13 years in the White House.

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  Las Vegas: An Unconventional History

  The story of Las Vegas' last hundred years is a distinctly American saga of optimism and opportunity. By 1999, it had become one of the fastest growing cities in the United States and could lay claim, in the words of one historian, to be "the first city of the twenty-first century." American Experience tells a rollercoaster story, peopled with unlikely heroes and villains, to trace the city's development from a remote frontier way-station to its Depression-era incarnation as the "Gateway to the Hoover Dam"; from its mid-century florescence as the gangster metropolis known as "Sin City" to its recent renaissance as a corporately-financed, postmodern, desert fantasyla

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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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  Emma Goldman | Timeline

  Anarchism and Emma Goldman

  Learn about the life and times of anarchist Emma Goldman.

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  Riding the Rails | Timeline

  Riding the Rails Timeline

  Timeline of the Great Depression

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  Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind | Article

  A. Philip Randolph

  A. Philip Randolph was one of the most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. Randolph worked as a labor organizer, a journalist, and a civil rights leader.

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  The Vote | Article

  Getting Out the Latino Vote in Rural California

  A woman’s journey to raise Latino voter participation in the eastern Coachella Valley.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  The Chinese Workers' Strike

  The project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four dollars — to $35 a month — in hopes that news of the increase would attract more workers to the summit.

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  Zoot Suit Riots | Article

  Alice McGrath (1917- 2009)

  While Alice grew up in mostly segregated, white neighborhoods, she had a keen regard for the underdog and felt deeply about the indignities and injustices the minority groups of the city suffered.

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  The Alaska Pipeline | Article

  How the Pipeline Transformed Life in Alaska

  There were only two police officers patrolling Fairbanks when the Trans-Alaskan pipeline project arrived on the scene. J. B. Carnahan was one of them. Then, almost overnight, the sleepy town of Fairbanks became a boomtown.

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  Film

  The Movement and the “Madman”

  Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the film reveals how movement leaders mobilized disparate groups to create two massive protests that changed history.