Freedom Riders |
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The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called the Freedom Riders who in 1961 creatively challenged a segregated interstate travel system in the American South.
31 SEC
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Over the next twelve days, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin.
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One of the greatest dramas in American politics, President Jimmy Carter was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat in 1980, only to become one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.
3 hrs 39 min
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Watch hours 3 and 4 of The Great War.
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Watch hours 5 and 6 of The Great War .
The Abolitionists |
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In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission.Â
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The Abolitionists |
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In 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision had the potential to legalize slavery everywhere in the United States.
2 MIN 58 SEC
The Abolitionists |
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In April 1861, the American Civil War began, reuniting abolitionists who had grown apart in recent years.
1 MIN 40 SEC
The Abolitionists |
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Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows.
1 MIN 29 SEC
The Abolitionists |
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In 1859, John Brown seized a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, but failed to incite a revolution.
2 MIN 08 SEC
War of the Worlds |
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Many Americans could not fathom that some people heard War of the Worlds and actually believed that Martians had landed in New Jersey.
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At six years old, Frederick Douglass had just begun his life as a slave when he witnessed his aunt get beaten brutally by her master.
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