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  Fidel Castro

  On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

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  D-Day

  Not since 1688 had an invading army crossed the English Channel, but now it was happening — Operation Overlord, D-Day, the all-out attack on Hitler's fortress Europe. D-Day was the turning point. It was day one of the final drive to complete Allied victory.

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  MacArthur

  No soldier in modern history has been more admired — or more reviled. Douglas MacArthur, liberator of the Philippines, shogun of occupied Japan, mastermind of the Inchon invasion, was an admired national hero when he was suddenly relieved of his command. A portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating American general. 

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  The Great War | Article

  American Nurses in World War I

  In WWI more than 10,000 nurses served near the Western Front, many at front-line medical stations. But they served without rank or commission. 

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  Fly Girls

  In the midst of WWII, the call went out: women with flight experience were needed to fly for the military. Women postponed their weddings, put their educations on hold, and quit their jobs to respond.

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  My Lai

  What drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history?

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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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  Riding the Rails

  At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million teenagers were living on the road in America, many criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight trains. This film tells the story of ten of these teenage hobos — from the reasons they left home to what they experienced — all within the context of depression-era America.

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  The Wright Stuff

  On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple of tight circles, ending in a perfect landing. The flight took less than two minutes, but it left spectators awestruck.

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  Robert E. Lee | Article

  Letters from Lee

  General Lee explains his reasoning behind his resignation from the U.S. Armed Forces.

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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.

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  Robert E. Lee | Timeline

  The Life of Robert E. Lee

  Robert Edward Lee was the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia aristocracy. Explore a timeline of his life.

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  Ripley: Believe It or Not

  Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. We still can’t resist his challenge to “Believe it — or not!”

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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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  Ansel Adams

  From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent.

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  War Letters | Primary Source

  In Your State

  Chances are you and your family have old war letters or other family artifacts. These things are not only of personal value, but may be of historic significance to your community as well.

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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.

   

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  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.

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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 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.