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.
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
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...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets a...
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...
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...
Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...