The Demon of Unrest
Author Erik Larson talks about the months in 1860 between Abraham Lincoln winning the presidential election and the bomb…
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Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen at Gettysburg
Actors Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen visit the exact location where Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on Nove…
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation CEO Edward O’Keefe talked about the women who shaped Theodore Rooseve…
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Tunnel Destruction
This 1969 U.S. Army film showed how teams of soldiers can destroy enemy tunnels through grenades, special charges, and o…
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Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision
Law professors Sheryll Cashin and Randall Kennedy - who served as law clerks to former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Ma…
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Congress Investigates: KKK Violence During Reconstruction
In 1871, a joint House-Senate committee investigated conditions in the southern states following a wave of violence agai…
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Congress Investigates: The McCarthy Era
In the 1950s, the Senate explored whether communists had infiltrated the State Department, the Army, and other federal a…
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Congress Investigates: Organized Crime
In the 1950s, a Senate committee led by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) examined organized crime around the country.
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Origins of the Korean War
History professors Gregg Brazinsky (George Washington University), Steven Casey (London School of Economics and Politica…
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Silent Cavalry
Author and journalist Howell Raines talked about Union soldiers from Alabama who aided General Sherman in his 1864 March…
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