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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.

  • The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Article

    What Happened When a Fearless Group of Mississippi Sharecroppers Founded Their Own City

    Strike City was born after one small community left the plantation to live on their own terms.

  • Film

    Nixon

    The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust.

  • Race for the Superbomb | Article

    Scientists and Mathematicians in the U.S.S.R

    Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb. This feature details scientists and mathematicians who worked in the U.S.S.R.

  • America 1900 | Timeline

    Timeline

    View a selection of events from 1900.

  • Las Vegas: An Unconventional History | Map

    Putting Las Vegas on the Map

    Survey the Las Vegas area and examine highlights of its development.

  • 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.

  • Ulysses S. Grant | Image Gallery

    Grant and the Issues of His Time

    Browse these pro- and anti-Grant political cartoons, spanning his military and political careers, and investigate the range of popular opinions about Grant and the major issues of his time.

  • Russians Plead for Famine Relief poster image
    The Great Famine | Primary Source

    Russians Plead for Famine Relief

    Read an excerpt from the New York Times, dated July 19, 1921, titled: RUSSIANS PLEAD FOR FAMINE RELIEF. 

  • Film

    The Circus

    The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time.

  • Article

    Grover Cleveland

    The only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland's second term coincided with a financial depression, the Panic of 1893.

  • Race for the Superbomb | Article

    Russian Politicians, Officials and Administrators

    Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb- this feature details Russian government officials.

  • McCarthy | Article

    More Than Just a Man

    Anti-communist political repression went far beyond Senator Joseph McCarthy.

  • Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Article

    Rebuilding the South After the War

    Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war.

  • Chicago: City of the Century | Article

    Jane Addams (1860-1935)

    Jane Addams was a pacifist, and an internationalist, she helped to found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919.

  • Walt Whitman | Timeline

    Walt Whitman's Life

    From his working class childhood in Long Island, to a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn, and his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work.

  • Film

    Death and the Civil War

    The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.

  • MacArthur | Article

    Occupation of Japan and the New Constitution

    Although the occupation was nominally an allied enterprise — General MacArthur's title was Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

  • Film

    New Orleans

    New Orleans: the utterly original American city that lies at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi and at the beating heart of the great American experiment. Walled in on almost all sides by water, pressed together by the demands and dangers of geography, the crowded streets of New Orleans have always been a laboratory where the social forces that characterize American life play out in dramatic and, at times, disastrous fashion. Over the course of two provocative hours, American Experience tells the story of this remarkable city.

  • Article

    The Lady from Montana

    On March 4, 1917, the 65th Congress convened, with one major difference: the very first congresswoman.