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The Rise and Fall of Penn Stat...
In 1910 the Pennsylvania Railroad led by the company s president Alexander Cas...
In 1910 the Pennsylvania Railroad led by the company s president Alexander Cassatt successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City s Hudson and East Rivers connecting the railroad to New York and...
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The Donner Party (American Exp...
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846 nearly 90 membe...
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846 nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California s Promised Land. But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them-victims of madness death and...
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The Stonewall Uprising (Americ...
Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide right...
Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village the Stonewall Inn on June 28 1969 gay men and women did something they had not done before: they...
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The Pilgrims (American Experie...
The Pilgrims narrative has been shrouded in myth embedded in Thanksgiving Day ...
The Pilgrims narrative has been shrouded in myth embedded in Thanksgiving Day feasts football and parades. Who were the men and women who constituted this band of English Protestants whom we call the Pilgrims ? A documentary film by award-winning...
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American Experience: The Presi...
American Experience: The President s Collection - Production Year: 2017 - Ten ...
American Experience: The President s Collection - Production Year: 2017 - Ten 20th century biographies offer an intimate and compelling look at the men who have defined and re-defined the modern presidency and who led the country through some of the...
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American Experience: The Circu...
The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular influential and disti...
The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular influential and distinctly American form of entertainment from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956 when the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled...
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American Experience: The Eugen...
The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely - and largely unknown - c...
The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely - and largely unknown - campaign to breed a better American race tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control....
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American Experience: Custer s ...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable wild charge at Getty...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26 1876 Custer a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to...
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American Experience: Henry For...
This film examines the life of Henry Ford and offers a look at the birth of th...
This film examines the life of Henry Ford and offers a look at the birth of the American auto industry as well as a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford s automobile forever changed the way we live.
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American Experience: Into The ...
American Experience: Into the Amazon - Into the Amazon tells the remarkable st...
American Experience: Into the Amazon - Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an...
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American Masters: Edgar Allan ...
Though literary fame and fortune evaded him during his brief troubled life poe...
Though literary fame and fortune evaded him during his brief troubled life poet and author Edgar Allan Poe has gone on to achieve legendary status single-handedly inventing the detective story category refining science fiction and popularizing the...
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