Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | The Pineapple King | 2
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy...
Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | The Last Queen | 1
22 Mar 2023
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In 1893 the independent island kingdom of Hawaiʻi flourished under the leadership of its monarch, Q...
Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Fears of a Young Republic | 5
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was Aaron Burr raising an army to invade Mexico? Plotting to break apart the Union? Overthrow the go...
Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Treason on Trial | 4
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1807, Richmond, Virginia hosted the most sensational trial in the young nation’s ...
Insurrection of Aaron Burr | The Severance of the Union | 3
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1806, Aaron Burr began the final preparations for his mysterious expedition to the western...
Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Gathering Forces | 2
22 Feb 2023
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In the summer of 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr was wanted for the murder of Alexander Hamilton. Th...
Insurrection of Aaron Burr | An Affair of Honor | 1
15 Feb 2023
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In July 1804, Aaron Burr faced political rival Alexander Hamilton on the cliffs of Weehawken, New Je...
California Gold Rush | Gold Mountains | 5
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
News of the 1848 discovery of gold in California spread quickly, and thousands of Chinese migrants f...
California Gold Rush | Digging Deeper | 4
01 Feb 2023
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In the early 1850s, as people continued to flood West, California’s booming cities experienced rap...
California Gold Rush | Battlelines | 3
25 Jan 2023
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For white settlers, the Gold Rush offered a chance for fortune, but for California’s Native inhabi...
California Gold Rush | The Forty Niners | 2
18 Jan 2023
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In early 1849, thousands of gold-hungry Americans began pouring into California from the eastern Uni...
California Gold Rush | The First Strike | 1
11 Jan 2023
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After the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, hundreds of thousands of prospectors p...
Presidential Assassinations | Interview | 5
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret ...
Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet | 4
28 Dec 2022
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In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington...
Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas | 3
21 Dec 2022
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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo thro...
Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition | 2
14 Dec 2022
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In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New Yo...
Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils | 1
07 Dec 2022
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On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washing...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | The Great Debate | 4
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 posed one of the greatest threats to the young United States. Doct...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Friends We Have Lost | 3
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1793, Philadelphia served as the nation’s temporary capital, and the yellow fever epidemic crip...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Fears & Falsehoods | 2
16 Nov 2022
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In September 1793, yellow fever continued to ravage Philadelphia. As the death toll mounted, Dr. Ben...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Outbreak | 1
09 Nov 2022
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In the hot and humid summer of 1793, a deadly epidemic struck Philadelphia, then the capital of the ...
The Age of Pirates | Women of the High Seas | 4
02 Nov 2022
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During the Golden Age of Piracy, two female pirates became infamous despite their short careers. Ann...
The Age of Pirates | Blackbeard and the Flying Gang | 3
26 Oct 2022
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In 1717, the pirate known as Blackbeard launched an attack along the Atlantic seaboard, disrupting i...
The Age of Pirates | Captain Kid's Adventure | 2
19 Oct 2022
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As England waged war against France in 1689, Scottish sailor William Kidd led a deadly mutiny aboard...
The Age of Pirates | A Gold Chain Or A Wooden Leg | 1
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the 17th century, pirates stalked the coast of North America and the waters of the Car...
Encore: The Walker Affair | The Last Filibuster | 3
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When he escaped Nicaragua in 1857, American William Walker was a failed despot responsible for the d...
Encore: The Walker Affair | Nicaragua's Yankee President | 2
28 Sep 2022
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In 1855, William Walker faced a criminal trial in the United States for his illegal, and unsuccessfu...
Encore: The Walker Affair | The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny | 1
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1800s, the United States was full of adventurers and entrepreneurs looking to take advant...
Civil War | Finding Freedom | 8
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the Civil War, Black people in America took the opportunity to free themselves and to serve t...
Civil War | Bind Up the Nation's Wounds | 7
07 Sep 2022
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In early 1865, after four long years of bloodshed, the Confederacy was on the brink of defeat. Gener...
Civil War | March To The Sea | 6
31 Aug 2022
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In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant took charge of the entire Union Army and laid out his ambitious plans to f...
Civil War | Gettysburg | 5
24 Aug 2022
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In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee made a daring bid for victory. He marched his army nort...
Civil War | The Fires at Home | 4
17 Aug 2022
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As the Civil War raged on, families on the homefront faced increasingly heavy tolls, enduring crippl...
Civil War | Emancipation | 3
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Civil War began as an effort to hold the country together. Few Northern soldiers marched into ba...
Civil War | First Blood | 2
03 Aug 2022
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On April 19th, 1861, an angry mob of Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore tried to stop a regiment ...
Civil War | The Gathering Storm | 1
27 Jul 2022
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Over the first decades of the 19th century, Americans fought over whether slavery should be allowed ...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | A Nation Divided | 7
20 Jul 2022
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The Age of Jackson was a time of intense change and tremendous growth in the United States. But it w...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | Manifest Destiny | 6
13 Jul 2022
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In 1845, newly inaugurated President James Polk made America’s westward expansion a centerpiece of...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | The Little Magician | 5
06 Jul 2022
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During the last years of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, the American economy flourished. But when hi...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | Great White Father | 4
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During his military career, Andrew Jackson won several ruthless victories over indigenous people. Af...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | King Mob | 3
22 Jun 2022
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On Andrew Jackson’s inauguration day, citizens mobbed the White House, breaking furniture and fine...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | Good Feelings | 2
15 Jun 2022
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In the summer of 1817, President James Monroe toured the country in an effort to unify the ever-grow...
Encore: The Age of Jackson | Washington Burns | 1
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1814, British troops burned down the White House. That fire would be extinguished, and the Execut...
The Great Mississippi Flood | Media Storm | 4
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1927, a slow-moving catastrophe like the Great Mississippi Flood was perfect material for a relat...
The Great Mississippi Flood | Master of Emergencies | 3
25 May 2022
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Herbert Hoover’s management of the flood relief garnered widespread praise and put him in position...
The Great Mississippi Flood | Dirty Water | 2
18 May 2022
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Early in the morning on April 22nd, 1927, flood waters from a break in the Mound Landing levee enter...
The Great Mississippi Flood | When the Levee Breaks | 1
11 May 2022
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In the winter and spring of 1927, record-setting rain fell across the central United States. The Mis...
Lewis and Clark | The Journey and the Journals | 4
04 May 2022
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The Lewis and Clark expedition changed the course of American history. But after its bold, charismat...
Lewis and Clark | The Long Way Home | 3
27 Apr 2022
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After 18 months and over two thousand miles, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery had reached the ...
Lewis and Clark | Across the Rockies | 2
20 Apr 2022
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In the spring of 1805, Lewis and Clark resumed their journey up the Missouri River in search of the ...
Lewis and Clark | Into the Wild | 1
13 Apr 2022
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In 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a westward journey that would transform A...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Portrait of a Struggle | 6
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Alice Paul and other leading white suffragists, image was important. They published their own ne...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The 19th Amendment | 5
30 Mar 2022
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As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul an...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Silent Sentinels | 4
23 Mar 2022
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In March 1913, thousands of suffrage activists converged on Washington, D.C. for a new form of prote...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Passing the Torch | 3
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the 20th century dawned, a new generation of women rose to take control of the suffrage cause. Th...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The Trial of Susan B. Anthony | 2
09 Mar 2022
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On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly...
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Created Equal | 1
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for...
The Plot to Steal Lincoln's Body | The Manhunt | 3
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By 1876, criminal boss Big Jim Kennally was ready to put his Lincoln body-snatching plan into motion...
The Plot to Steal Lincoln's Body | The Roper | 2
16 Feb 2022
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By 1876, criminal boss Big Jim Kennally was ready to put his Lincoln body-snatching plan into motion...
The Plot to Steal Lincoln's Body | The Counterfeiters | 1
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1870s, a gang from Chicago hatched one of the most audacious criminal plots in American histo...
Billy the Kid | Man, Myth, Legend | 4
02 Feb 2022
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Billy the Kid has become one of the most iconic figures of the American West. But many details of hi...
Billy the Kid | Dead or Alive | 3
26 Jan 2022
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With the bloody Lincoln County War finally over, Billy the Kid tried to make a truce with his arch e...
Billy the Kid | The Lincoln County War | 2
19 Jan 2022
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In 1877, Billy the Kid was saved from a life of crime by a wealthy Englishman named John Tunstall, w...
Billy the Kid | Born to Lose | 1
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Henry McCarty was born in an Irish slum in New York City in 1859. By the time he died from a lawman’...
Philippine-American War | The Path to Independence | 5
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Philippine-American War marked the emergence of America as a global power. But what has been the...
Philippine-American War | Acts of Sedition | 4
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the war officially over, William Howard Taft took over authority as the Governor of the Philipp...
Philippine-American War | A Howling Wilderness | 3
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1901, American forces launched a daring raid to capture the Filipino revolutionary leader E...
Philippine-American War | Under the Free Flag | 2
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, America’s victory over Spanish forces in the Philippines suddenly thrust the United State...
Philippine-American War | Into the Jaws of a Dragon | 1
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On February 4th, 1899, war broke out between the United States and the Philippines. The two nations ...
Traitors | Accomplice or Martyr | 5
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not every case of treason is open and shut. With some accused traitors, questions of their guilt or ...
Traitors | Nightmover | 4
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On June 13, 1985, Aldrich Ames packed up six pounds of top secret documents into a plastic bag and w...
Traitors | The Atomic Spies | 3
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1949, the world was shocked to learn that the Soviet Union had conducted its first nucl...
Traitors | The Widow and the Assassin | 2
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box at Washington’...
Traitors | Treason of the Blackest Dye | 1
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early in the Revolutionary War, Major General Benedict Arnold built a reputation as a courageous com...
Roaring Twenties | Anxious Decade | 5
27 Oct 2021
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The Roaring 20s are often described as a time of optimism and decadence, teeming with flappers, jazz...
Roaring Twenties | The Great Crash | 4
20 Oct 2021
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On a misty morning in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh climbed into the cramped cockpit of his single eng...
Roaring Twenties | How the Money Rolls In | 3
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1921, Republican President Warren G. Harding entered the White House, ushering in a new era of co...
Roaring Twenties | The Age of Jazz | 2
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1920s, Americans moved to the city in droves, and a new, diverse generation sparked an era of...
Roaring Twenties | Rise of the Radicals | 1
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1919, American soldiers returned from the battlefields of Europe to face a nation torn apart by a...
Encore: National Parks | Fire and Ice | 6
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alaska: big, open, frozen and wild. In 1867, the acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire was w...
Encore: National Parks | Playgrounds of the People | 5
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1914, America’s National Parks had a problem: no one was using them. And those few that were fa...
Encore: National Parks | The Great Disaster | 4
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was torn apart by...
Encore: National Parks | Rough Rider | 3
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was atop a mountain when he heard the news: an assassin’s bullet...
Encore: National Parks | Calling in the Cavalry | 2
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yellowstone was our nation’s first national park. Its strange, wondrous landscapes were perfect fo...
Encore: National Parks | The Business of Nature | 1
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
America's national parks are truly among our country's greatest treasures. But many of these beautif...
The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | Passing the Torch | 4
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1904 St. Louis Olympics were marred by controversy and poorly organized events like the marathon...
The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | The Home Stretch | 3
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1904, the young women of the Fort Shaw Indian School basketball team took the St. L...
The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | Let the Games Begin | 2
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1904, St. Louis was thrust into the national spotlight, as it played host to both the World’s F...
The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | A Tale of Two Cities | 1
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1800s, European fascination with the culture of ancient Greece, and a growing interest i...
Lost Colony of Roanoke | Searching for Traces | 3
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The mystery of what became of the first English colonists has baffled historians for centuries. But ...
Lost Colony of Roanoke | The Vanishing | 2
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On April 26, 1587, 117 colonists sailed from England to establish a permanent settlement on the east...
Lost Colony of Roanoke | In the Name of the Queen | 1
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth the First of England was locked in a battle for global dominanc...
The Walker Affair | The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny | 1
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1800s, the United States was a young nation awash with mercenaries, adventurers, and entr...
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | Bearing Witness | 5
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many Americans, Anneliese Bruner didn’t hear about the Tulsa Race Massacre growing up. But wh...
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | Rebirth | 4
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On June 2, 1921, thousands of black Tulsans interned at the Tulsa Fairgrounds woke under armed guard...
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Invasion | 3
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of Tuesday, May 31, 1921, a violent white mob attacked the prosperous Black neighborhoo...
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Powder Keg | 2
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Black teenager Dick Rowland sat in a jail cell at the Tulsa courthouse, news of his arrest flew t...
Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Promised Land | 1
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma boasted one of the nation’s most prosperous African-American communities....
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | The Man in Row 18 | 1
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On November 24th, 1971, a man on a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle handed a flight attendant a note tha...
Bleeding Kansas | The Man Who Sparked the Civil War | 5
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Brown has been called many things: fanatic, hero, terrorist, martyr, zealot. Some of his contem...