After taking the presidential oath of office for the fourth time, FDR meets with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill to negotiate the boundaries of post-war Europe. With his health failing and worn out from years of difficult decisions, FDR seeks out the companionship of Lucy Mercer.
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Seabiscuit was dung-colored and boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn’t completely straighten, a straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, he was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history.
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Hoover Dam’s electrical output helped build the ships and planes used in World War II; its water grew fruits and vegetables in California. It tamed a wild river and, for a time, renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology.
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The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade.
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Roberto Clemente. Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash in 1972. Interviewees include authors...
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Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions — a "New Era" when everyone could be rich.
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The CCC was President Roosevelt’s answer to the environmental and economic challenges facing the country. Enlisting 250,000 workers in just two months, the CCC was an ambitious undertaking that brought several government agencies together in the effort.
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Born around 1820, Geronimo grew into a leading warrior and healer. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers, and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches struggling to survive under almost unendurable press...
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On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists had seized the few major buildings in town. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances--so...
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The story of a founding father who laid the groundwork for the nation’s modern economy — including the banking system and Wall Street. He was also a primary author of the Federalist Papers.
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