On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.

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...

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 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...

Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was ov...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a...

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...