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  The Forgotten Plague

  By the 19th century, the deadliest killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, touching the lives of almost every family.

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  Monkey Trial

  In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the twentieth century, a debate over free speech that spiraled into an all-out duel between science and religion.

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  Stephen Foster

  Stephen Foster was the first great American songwriter. His melodies are so much a part of American history and culture that most people think they're folk tunes. All in all he composed some 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna" "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Camptown Races." Though he virtually invented popular music as we recognize it today, Foster's personal life was tragic and contradiction-riddled. His marriage was largely unhappy, he never made much money from his work and he died at the age of 37 a nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery in New York.

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  Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided | Timeline

  Political Party Timeline: 1836-1864

  The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

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  Dolley Madison | Timeline

  Dolley Madison's Life

  Dolley accepts a marriage proposal by James Madison, who had been engaged once before but never married.

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  The Boys of '36

  The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

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  God in America | Article

  God in the White House

  From Washington to Obama—the presidents' religious beliefs and their impact on politics.

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  God in America

  Inside the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America — from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE. This six-hour series examines how religious dissidents helped shape the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Article

  Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), a Profile

  Hamilton rose to become a Revolutionary War hero, an advocate for the Constitution, and a rescuer of the nascent American government from financial ruin.

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  Walt Whitman

  He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

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  Soundtrack for a Revolution

  The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.

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  Grand Central

  A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.

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  The Nuremberg Trials

  The story of the dramatic post-World War II tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice and defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

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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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  RFK | Article

  What if?

  It's one of the tantalizing questions in American history: what if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated?

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  Patriots Day | Timeline

  Patriots Day and Related Events

  The event, known as the Boston Massacre, is widely publicized by Paul Revere, who engraves and distributes color prints depicting the incident.

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  Patriots Day | Timeline

  Patriots Day and Other Related Events

  Travel back in time and review a chronology of the Battle of Lexington and Concord and related events.

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  The Kennedys | Article

  The Kennedys in Politics

  The tide of political power was changing in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century as Irish ward bosses seized power.

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  The American Vice President | Digital Short

  The vice presidency isn't what the founding fathers thought it would be

  America’s first vice president, John Adams, called his job “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” But that would change dramatically over the next two and a half centuries. Discover how the vice presidency has evolved over time.

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  John Tyler

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