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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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