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  The Secret of Tuxedo Park | Article

  Tower House Science Squad

  These are the men who visited what Albert Einstein called a “palace of science” — a lab where the greatest scientists from around the world came to work and exchange ideas.

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  The Orphan Trains

  The story of this ambitious and finally controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children begins in the 1850s, when thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter—prey to disease and crime.

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  Secrets of a Master Builder

  A self-made man and one of America’s greatest engineers, James Buchanan Eads led a life inextricably intertwined with the nation’s most important waterway, the Mississippi River. He explored the river bottom in a diving bell of his own design; made a fortune salvaging wrecks; in the 1870s built the world's first steel bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis; then deepened the river at its mouth, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation. By the time of his death in 1887, Eads was widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential men of his day.

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  The Great War | Article

  Get a Sneak Peek of The Great War

  Special preview screenings of the upcoming miniseries. All screenings are free — reserve your seats now!

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  The Bombing of Germany

  During the defining months of the offensive against Germany, American forces faced a moral and strategic dilemma.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Article

  Elizabeth Hamilton (1757-1854)

  Good natured and somewhat serious, Elizabeth would spend years working to secure Hamilton's place in American history.

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  Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

  He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs, and was eventually deported. Marcus Garvey is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.

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  The Bombing of Wall Street

  The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

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  Daughter from Danang | Article

  Mai Thi Kim

   Through a difficult time of war and devastation, Mai Thi Kim managed to keep her four children fed, clothed and sheltered.

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  Silicon Valley

  Decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, the invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.

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  Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided | Article

  Civil War Photographers

  Read about the photographic legacy of the Civil War and the photographers wh captured the events.

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  Lost in the Grand Canyon | Timeline

  John Wesley Powell: A Chronology

  A detailed chronology of the explorer's eventful life.

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  TR | Article

  Filmmaker David Grubin on TR

  He was a best-selling author. He was a big game hunter, a cowboy. There are so many different facets to the life of Theodore Roosevelt that make him a fascinating figure to cover. 

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  Citizen Hearst | Image Gallery

  How a Public Media Campaign Led to Japanese Incarceration during WWII

  Images by photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams document this shameful moment in America’s history.

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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  Kids in the Civil War

  When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins — or joined the military themselves.

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  Two Days in October | Article

  Perspectives: Vietnam

  Some survived the horror of a deadly ambush in Vietnam. Some were in the thick of student antiwar protests. All continue to be affected by the events of October 1967.

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  Alexander Hamilton | Article

  Philip Hamilton (1782-1801)

  Hamilton's eldest son and proudest hope for the future, Philip died in an ill-considered duel at the age of 19. 

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  Two Days in October | Article

  Reconciliation After The Vietnam War

  They stood on opposite sides of the Vietnam divide, the student opposing the war in which the infantryman fought.

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  Fly With Me

  The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,” as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace. 

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  Jesse James | Primary Source

  Newspaper Accounts

  James was certainly aware of the power of the press, writing directly to newspapers to tell his side of the story and amplify his legend.