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  Patriots Day | Article

  April 19: How It Began and Ended

  On April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren saw the British regulars mobilizing in Boston. By the end of next day, however, no man who had stood on the field of battle had any doubt that the Colonies were at war with Britain.

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  Hijacked!

  For more than 30 years it would be known as "the blackest day in aviation history." On September 6, 1970, members of the militant Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), hijacked four commercial airplanes. They commandeered a fifth aircraft three days later. Wanting to attract attention to the Palestinian cause and secure the release of several of their comrades, the P.F.L.P. spectacularly blew up four of the planes.

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  The Duel | Article

  Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's Duel

  Hamilton was a Federalist. Burr was a Republican. The men clashed repeatedly in the political arena.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  Events Leading to the American Revolution

  In response to surcharges on imports such as glass, paint, and tea, the colonists refused to buy these products.

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  The Kennedys | Article

  Edward Moore Kennedy

  As a United States senator, Ted Kennedy served the people of Massachusetts for 47 years.

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  Mount Rushmore

  High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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  The Pilgrims

  The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620.

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  The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken | Article

  Three Generations

  Follow this musical family through three generations and learn about their many contributions to American music.

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  A Midwife's Tale | Article

  After the Revolution

  Read about the years following the Revolutionary War and the changes our developing nation underwent.

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  Murder at Harvard

  Inspired by a book by historian Simon Schama, Murder at Harvard uses drama and documentary to re-examine this grisly episode. 

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  Tesla

  Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century.

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  Patriots Day | Article

  William Dawes

  Paul Revere's ride has been celebrated in poems and textbooks, but William Dawes' role was at least as important.

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  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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  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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  Rescue at Sea

  On January 23, 1909, two ships -- one carrying Italian immigrants to New York City, the other, American tourists to Europe -- collided in dense fog off Nantucket Island. In a moment, more than 1,500 lives became dependent on a new technology, wireless telegraphy, and on Jack Binns, a twenty-six-year-old wireless operator on board one of the ships.

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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 American Vice President | Article

  No one used to care about the vice presidency. Here's how (and why) that's changed.

  The second-in-command position used to be "insignificant" but can't be ignored today.

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  Triangle Fire

  It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history.

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  American Coup: Wilmington 1898

  The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.

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  The Murder of Emmett Till

  In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement.