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  The Battle of Chosin

  The Korean War battle at Chosin Reservoir is one of the most celebrated in Marine Corps annals. More than 20 veterans of the campaign recount this epic conflict.

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  TR

  Author, soldier, scientist, outdoorsman and caring father, he was the youngest man to become president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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  The Great War

  Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.

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  Around the World in 72 Days

  At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become known as "the best reporter in America." The daring Bly continually risked her life to grab headlines. To expose abuse of the mentally ill, she had herself committed. When she traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity.

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  The Poison Squad

  The Poison Squad tells the story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish these dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies.

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  Citizen King

  In August 1963, a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism.

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  Secrets of a Master Builder | Article

  Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, 1810-1883

  Glory on the battlefeild and establishing his reputation as a military leader drove Humphreys throughout his career.

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  The Fight | Article

  Nazis in the News: 1940

  By June 1940, Europe was officially at war, as the Germans advanced across northern Europe. 

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  The Rockefellers

  Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.

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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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  Victory in the Pacific | Article

  Masayuki Shimada

  Shimada remembers preparing for his kamikaze mission.

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  Murder of a President

  The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman.

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  Kit Carson

  The ultimate frontiersman, Carson inspired popular novels before being associated with the "Long Walk" of the Navajo people.

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  The Great War | Trailer

  The Great War, Part 1: Trailer

  Discover how World War I affected the lives of a diverse America and altered its place in the world.

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  Historians on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

  Learn about these Founding Fathers from historians Carol Berkin, Joanne Freeman, and Doug Ambrose.

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  The Great Transatlantic Cable | Article

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873)

  A Naval officer and pioneer in the emerging field of oceanography, Matthew Fontaine Maury was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the Seas."

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  Houdini | Article

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with Sherlock Holmes. People are surprised, then, to find out that the real Conan Doyle had a fervent belief in Spiritualism that dominated the final dozen years of his life.

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  The Eugenics Crusade

  The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control.

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  Two Days in October | Article

  One Family's Vietnam War Story

  He was a general's son, she a beauty queen. But their family was broken by Vietnam. 

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  Command and Control

  How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?