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  The Living Weapon

  The international race to develop biological weapons during the 20th century.

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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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  Billy Graham | Image Gallery

  Mr. President, Meet Billy Graham

  The famed evangelist met with every U.S. president from Truman to Trump.

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  Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

  Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing.

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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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  Personalizing the Past: History Through Home Movies

  Is the essential story of the 20th century really the composite story made from identical events shown slightly differently?

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  The Great Fever | Article

  Historical Guide to Yellow Fever

  Learn more about the transmission, symptoms and preventive treatment of yellow fever.

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  Space Men

  Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and ingenuity in this lethal realm.

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  The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

  A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

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  Murder of a President | Image Gallery

  Garfield's America 1860-1880

  In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes. James Garfield's election brought hope to Americans of all backgrounds.

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  Clinton | Article

  Legacy of the Clinton Administration

  President Clinton hoped to become a "repairer of the breach," calling upon Congress to move beyond extreme partisanship and instead focus on America's mission.

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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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  MacArthur | Article

  The Spanish-American War in the Philippines and the Battle for Manila

  Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades of pressure toward U.S. expansionism. 

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  Tesla | Article

  Tesla's Dinner Party

  Join Robert Underwood Johnson, John Muir, Mark Twain, Stanford White, and Nikola Tesla for an imagined dinner party.

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  Clinton

  A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.

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  Mount Rushmore | Article

  Benjamin Harrison

  Grandson of William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison managed to unseat Grover Cleveland in the 1888 election.

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  The Codebreaker

  Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today.

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  Stephen Foster

  Stephen Foster was the first great American songwriter. His melodies are so much a part of American history and culture that most people think they're folk tunes. All in all he composed some 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna" "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Camptown Races." Though he virtually invented popular music as we recognize it today, Foster's personal life was tragic and contradiction-riddled. His marriage was largely unhappy, he never made much money from his work and he died at the age of 37 a nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery in New York.

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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 Poisoner's Handbook

  The grave truth behind modern forensics was discovered in 1920s New York.