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  Film

  The Feud

  The real story behind the Hatfields and the McCoys, the most famous family conflict in American history.

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Leaves of Grass

  Still widely read today, it serves as an autobiography of sorts, recording some of the most tumultuous decades of American history.

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  The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film | Article

  New York After WWII

  The New York City that emerged from World War II was a dramatically different place than the city that had entered it four years before.

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  Mary Pickford | Article

  D.W. Griffith (1875-1948)

  Griffith's failure as an actor and playwright would turn out to be a blessing for the film industry when Griffith shifted his attention to film directing,

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  The Donner Party | Article

  Call of the West

  For legions of Americans in the mid-19th century, the call of the West could not be ignored.

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  A Portrait of Wilson

  Learn about Wilson's life, from his southern childhood, to his rise in academia, to his political career.

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  The Great Famine | Timeline

  United States Foreign Aid

  United States efforts to combat a severe food shortage internationally starting with Europe in WWI.

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  God in America | Article

  People and Ideas: Civil War and Reconstruction

  How religious ideas and individuals' spiritual experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction era have impacted American social, political and cultural life.

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  Freedom Summer

  A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Greenwich Village Intellectuals in the Early 20th Century

  These rebels linked artistic experiments and radical politics together in a belief in the primary necessity of a revolution in consciousness.

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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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  The Kennedys | Article

  The Kennedys and Civil Rights

  John Kennedy was elected president in 1960 partly because of his promise to secure equal rights for Black Americans.

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  Klansville U.S.A. | Article

  Three Questions for Klansville U.S.A. Filmmaker Callie Wiser

  Filmmaker Callie Wiser reflects on the experience of making Klansville U.S.A. and the film's relevance in 2017.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  Before the Civil Rights Movement

  Read excerpts from journalist John Egerton's book Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

   

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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. 

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  Murder of a President | Primary Source

  Garfield Nominates John Sherman

  At the 1880 Republican Convention in Chicago, James Garfield was called upon to make a nominating address for fellow Ohioan, John Sherman.

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  Remember the Alamo | Article

  An Alamo Visit

  Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Professor Hardin has served as a historical advisor for television and film productions on Texas history. Here, he answers questions about what it's like to visit the Alamo. 

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  The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film | Timeline

  World Trade Center (1942-2002)

  A timeline of the World Trade Center, from conception through completion, and its destruction on September 11, 2001.

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  The Chinese Exclusion Act

  The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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  Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

  In 1931, two white women made a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.