Season 21 (2009)

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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January 26, 2009 • 55m

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los A...Read more

The Polio Crusade
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February 2, 2009 • 55m

The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The medical br...Read more

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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February 9, 2009 • 55m

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as a fracture...Read more

A Class Apart
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February 23, 2009 • 55m

From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who to...Read more

We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower
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April 13, 2009 • 55m

In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate...Read more

We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision
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April 20, 2009 • 55m

In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa (actor Billy Merasty, Cree First Nation), a Shawnee, fell into a trance so deep that those arou...Read more

We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
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April 27, 2009 • 55m

The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands o...Read more

We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo
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May 4, 2009 • 55m

In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache medicine man Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew to his si...Read more

We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee
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May 11, 2009 • 55m

On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation...Read more