He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but would prove to be a surprise.
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act...
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern histor...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...