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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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  Panama Canal

  In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where the French had failed disastrously, but the U.S. paid a price for victory.

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Timeline

  Decades of Immigrants

  Railroads, canals, meatpacking plants — there was opportunity in Chicago.

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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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  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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  Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World | Article

  The Steel Business

  Andrew Carnegie's relentless efforts to drive down costs and undersell the competition made his steel mills the models for the entire industry.

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  JFK

  Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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  Streamliners: America's Lost Trains | Article

  World's Fair

  The Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, all jagged edges and bold colors, invited visitors to take a peek at the future. 

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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.

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  Jesse James | Article

  Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency

  Scottish emigrant and abolitionist Allan Pinkerton founded America's first detective agency and brought down some of the country's most ruthless criminals.

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  Fidel Castro

  On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

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  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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  Jimmy Carter | Primary Source

  Anti-Inflation Program

  Jimmy Carter delivered this televised speech on October 24, 1978.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969)

  Writer and editor of the radical journals The Masses and The Liberator, Max Eastman was a journalist's journalist.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  Leland Stanford

  Slow to speak, a deliberate thinker, Stanford was characterized by a plodding nature that repeatedly vexed his railroad partners. However, he relished public life, and it was in this capacity that he best served the Central Pacific.

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  The Nuremberg Trials | Article

  The Prosecution

  The chief prosecutors for the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg came from four nations: The United States; The United Kingdom; The Soviet Union; and France.

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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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  Chicago: City of the Century | Article

  Carter Harrison (1825-1893)

  Carter Harrison was first elected as mayor in 1879 and ran the city with a... personal touch, much like aldermen.

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  Remember the Alamo | Article

  The Republic of Texas

  In autumn 1835, simmering political tensions in Texas came to a boil. A series of bloody skirmishes over a short span of months would decide the region's future.

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  Woodrow Wilson

  President Woodrow Wilson led America during World War I, created the Federal Reserve, and helped create the League of Nations. Part of the award-winning collection  The Presidents.