Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today.
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
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 ...
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 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
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...
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.