Watch Chapter 1 of Influenza.
The vast economic disparities of the Gilded Age sparked a debate that still rages today.
The story of the Wall Street tycoon whose radar technology helped win World War II.
Grand Central Terminal's builders pioneered the concept of air rights.
The life of Kit Carson embodies the contradictions in the story of the American West.
On February 1, 1913, New Yorkers rushed to see the opening of Grand Central Terminal.
Buffalo Bill Cody was a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero.
Walt Whitman offered up his poetry as a perfect reflection of the America he saw.
To many a symbol of slavery and oppression, the Confederate general remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.
Watch a video interview with Dr. Alfred Crosby, author of Epidemic and Peace 1918: America's Forgotten Pandemic.
As the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart became a legend.
Watch the opening scene of Annie Oakley.
