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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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  Film

  George H.W. Bush

  The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to the Oval Office, and his role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

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  Film

  Sealab

  In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.

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  Reagan | Primary Source

  The Evil Empire

  Although President Ronald Reagan did not actually use the phrase "evil empire" in this June 8, 1982 speech, he described the collapse of global communism as inevitable.

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Timeline

  Timeline: Early Chicago History

  A timeline of early Chicago history.

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  The Nuremberg Trials | Timeline

  Timeline: The War in Europe and its Aftermath

  Read about key events of World War II, and its aftermath.

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Article

  The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident

  The jury reached a verdict in three hours: death by hanging for seven of the men.

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  Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | Article

  The Scottsboro Defense Committee

  The Scottsboro Defense Committee was formed on December 19, 1935, with the objective to provide a united defense for the Scottsboro defendants.

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  Film

  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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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  William Jennings Bryan

  Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan.

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  Secrets of a Master Builder | Article

  Martha Dillon Eads and Eunice Eads

  James Eads married Eunice Hagerman Eads on May 2, 1854, a year and a half after his first wife Martha Dillon Eads died of Cholera in 1852.

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

  Although he did not have much formal schooling, Whitman was alive to the world around him, wandering through the natural bounty of Long Island and through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

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  Citizen Hearst | Article

  When the Newsies Took on William Randolph Hearst

  For two weeks in the summer of 1899, a union strike crippled the country’s most powerful publisher.

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  The Rockefellers | Article

  Biography: John D. Rockefeller, Junior

  It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its legacy

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  Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory | Timeline

  Timeline of the Jubilee Singers

  A chronology of the Jubilee Singers and their performances and journeys.

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  FDR | Primary Source

  New Deal a Square Deal for the Negro?

  An African American journal, Opportunity, examines New Deal policies and calls for fair treatment for blacks.

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  Film

  Voice of Freedom

  Explore the life of singer Marian Anderson and her triumphant 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

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  Film

  Building the Alaska Highway

  The Alaskan Highway stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.

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  Film

  A Midwife's Tale

  An innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. In a sparsely written diary, Ballard recorded her daily struggle against poverty, disease, domestic abuse and social turmoil. Two hundred years later, her world is painstakingly recreated by a historian seeking to understand eighteenth century America through a woman's eyes.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  The Panic of 1873

  When the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company, a firm heavily invested in railroad construction, closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation.