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Thomas Jefferson: The Pursuit of Liberty
He hoped to be remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and as the founder of the University of Virginia. Today we celebrate Thomas Jefferson as the man who forged the American cre...(more details) |
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The Oregon Trail
In 1843, a wagon train that consisted of a thousand pioneers headed west along the Oregon Trail. This series of programs tells the story of these hardy men, women, and children, detailing their reasons for undertaking this 2,000-mile journey and the ...(more details) |
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The Civil War
This program offers a portrait of the United States in 1860 and describes the events of the Civil War: secession and the election of Jefferson Davis; the attack on Ft. Sumter; the initial enthusiasm for a heroic, romantic war; the first two years of ...(more details) |
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
This exhaustive biography covers the tumultuous career of the failed Austrian artist who nearly conquered the world: a series of events and people, a chemistry of history and current happenings, a confluence of economic, psychological, and political ...(more details) |
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The Battle of Yorktown: 1781
Between the first settlement at Jamestown and the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown lay 174 years and the development of an American spirit. This program traces the three distinct strains that made up that spirit-the slave-based, ag...(more details) |
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