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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  Hell on Wheels

  Massachusetts newspaper editor Samuel Bowles observed the peculiar representatives of American culture taking root in North Platte and christened what he saw Hell on Wheels.

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  Film

  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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  Film

  The Feud

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

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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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  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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  The Mine Wars | Trailer

  The Mine Wars: Trailer

  In the early 1900s, a struggle over working conditions of coal miners led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a war zone. 

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Whitman and Race

  Whitman did not have a high opinion of the ten percent of Brooklyn residents who were of African descent, yet he thought slavery abhorrent.

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  Cold War Roadshow | Timeline

  Khrushchev's Trip Itinerary

  Khrushchev said he was “curious to have a look at America” and had been trying to get an invitation from President Dwight Eisenhower for several years.

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  The Gilded Age | Digital Short

  Mary Elizabeth Lease: The Advocate

  Women couldn’t run for elected office in Kansas, but Mary Elizabeth Lease was a political force to be reckoned with.

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  Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | Behind the Scenes

  Filming in Scottsboro

  Cinematographer Tom Hurwitz talks about documentary filmmaking and his unique experience filming in Scottsboro, Alabama where his father, documentarian Leo Hurwitz, had shot nearly 70 years before.

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  Chicago: City of the Century

  Bringing to life the Windy City's rich mixture of cultures, its writers and journalists, its political corruption and labor upheavals, this film bears witness to the creation of one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the world.

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  Hijacked! | Article

  The American Response to the Hijackings

  Before September 6, 1970, the United States had never faced terrorism on a global scale.

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  Film

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Eleanor Roosevelt supported her husband's New Deal and advocated for civil rights, becoming one of the 20th century's most influential women.

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  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

  Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast.

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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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  The Nuremberg Trials | Article

  The Nuremberg Judges

  Each of the four Allied countries that had formed the International Military Tribunal provided one judge and one alternate for the court that convened in the fall of 1945.

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  Race for the Superbomb

  At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. This program aired in January, 1999.

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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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  Reagan | Primary Source

  1983 State of the Union

   

  On January 25, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered the State of the Union Address.

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  Monkey Trial | Article

  Fundamentalism and the Social Gospel

  American fundamentalism and the social gospel are two distinct religious movements with radically different goals.