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  Billy Graham

  Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.

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  Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World

  Andrew Carnegie built a fortune in telegraphy, railroads, and steel. And then began, systematically, to give it all away.

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  Emma Goldman

  A notorious lecturer, fearless writer, and merciless publisher, Goldman was one of the most controversial women in America. 

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  The Abolitionists

  Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.

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  The Donner Party

  Three years before the Gold Rush, 87 pioneers took a shortcut westward to California, only to get caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada. The emigrants' fateful journey culminated in death and cannibalism.

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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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  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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  Ulysses S. Grant

  As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation.

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  The Great Transatlantic Cable

  Though the need for a transatlantic cable was obvious, the physical challenges to laying one were enormous. The project would require the production of a 2,000 mile long cable that would have to be laid three miles beneath the Atlantic.

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  The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Primary Source

  Teacher's Guide

  The film offers insights into social studies topics including World War II, the Manhattan Project, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the war, the Cold War and anti-communism, arms control, the nuclear age, the relationship between the military and the scientific establishment, and more.

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  Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided

  The six-part story of a frontiersman farmer and a wealthy Confederate slave-owner's daughter.

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  War Letters | Image Gallery

  WWII Cartoons

  One of the most famous World War II's cartoonist,  Bill Mauldin, chronicled war for the people doing the fighting.

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  D-Day | Article

  Letters from the Front

  Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day.

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  FDR | Primary Source

  Letter from Joseph C. Grew to Cordell Hull

  A letter to Roosevelt's secretary of state describes the Japanese military.

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  The Lie Detector

  Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.

   

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  Last Days in Vietnam

  April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, those in control faced an impossible decision—who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment, or even death. 

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  Jesse James

  He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.

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  Return With Honor

  "Return with Honor" is the story of American fighter pilots held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam. More than 20 veterans describe their captivity and their struggle to survive mentally and physically, and return with honor. Their moving accounts are combined with archival footage from Vietnam and the United States to create an inspiring tale of personal heroism.

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  Fly Girls | Article

  Cornelia Fort

  Fort joins the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Service to fly planes from factories to military air bases, and tragically becomes the first American woman to die on active military duty.

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  McCarthy | Article

  The Persecution of My Father

  An American diplomat’s son remembers an idyllic childhood in 1950s Paris that abruptly came to an end.