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  Remember the Alamo | Article

  Survivor Stories

  On March 6, 1836, nearly 1800 soldiers in the Mexican army of Antonio López de Santa Anna attacked the Alamo after a 13-day siege. Fewer than 200 men stood inside to defend the fort, accompanied by a small number of wives, children, and slaves. Miraculously, at least fourteen people survived, and a few would later provide chilling eyewitness accounts of what happened.

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  Nixon | Primary Source

  First Inaugural Address

  Nixon appeals to the American people to achieve greatness.

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  The Quiz Show Scandal | Article

  "The 64,000 Challenge"

  "And here is your host, Bill Fox." I stood there for a moment until somebody said, "That's you." 

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  Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind | Article

  W.E.B. Du Bois

  William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, was an editor, historian, sociologist, novelist, civil rights leader, socialist, and pan-Africanist.

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Article

  William Butler Ogden (1805-1877)

  William Butler Ogden was one of the prime movers that organized the digging of a canal from the Chicago River to Lake Michigan. 

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  Film

  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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  Film

  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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  Mr. Polaroid | Article

  How Polaroid Captured Cool

  The iconic brand’s square frame and white border inspired generations of popular culture.

   

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

  Although he did not have much formal schooling, Whitman was alive to the world around him, wandering through the natural bounty of Long Island and through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

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  Eugene O'Neill | Timeline

  Play by Play

  Browse a list of Eugene O'Neill's completed works, year by year, listed alongside some major historical events.

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  Walt Whitman | Timeline

  Walt Whitman's Life

  From his working class childhood in Long Island, to a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn, and his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work.

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  Film

  Blackout

  What happened when the lights went out in New York City on July 13, 1977?

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  Mount Rushmore | Article

  Gutzon Borglum

  The Borglums traveled to Paris to work and study, and there Gutzon met sculptor Auguste Rodin. 

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  Truman | Primary Source

  Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima

  Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan.

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  Mr. Miami Beach | Article

  America by Car

  Wealthy Americans and those who wanted to be near them flocked to Miami Beach during the 1920's and 30's. 

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  The American Vice President | Digital Short

  What happens when the president can’t move into the White House?

  When Gerald Ford and his family had to turn their home into The White House.

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  A Midwife's Tale | Timeline

  Martha Ballard Chronology

  A timeline of Martha Ballard's life along with events in science and medicine, and U.S. and Maine history.

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  Film

  The Orphan Trains

  The story of this ambitious and finally controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children begins in the 1850s, when thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter—prey to disease and crime.

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  Film

  The Alaska Pipeline

  In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's frozen wilderness, gas burst out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay -- the largest oil find in North America.

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  Film

  Test Tube Babies

  Test Tube Babies tells the story of doctors, researchers, and hopeful couples who pushed the limits of science and triggered a technological revolution in human reproduction.