August 27, 1990 • 55m
At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic -- handsome, talented, and brave -- a hero....Read more
October 15, 1990 • 55m
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought him down. On...Read more
October 15, 1990 • 55m
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought him down. On...Read more
October 15, 1990 • 55m
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought him down. On...Read more
October 22, 1990 • 55m
Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He settled in Chic...Read more
October 29, 1990 • 55m
On July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield in the lobby of the Baltimore & Potom...Read more
November 5, 1990 • 55m
Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault on our natio...Read more
November 19, 1990 • 55m
In 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone could get rich. But it was a ...Read more
November 26, 1990 • 55m
A tale of high adventure, enormous human effort and engineering brilliance. On May 2, 1869, when the last railroad spike was drive...Read more
December 10, 1990 • 55m
When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, Afro-Caribbe...Read more
January 7, 1991 • 55m
After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most desperate ye...Read more
January 28, 1991 • 55m
The story of Mexican American miners -- "los mineros" -- whose pitched labor battles, beginning with the first strike in 1903, sha...Read more
February 4, 1991 • 55m
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of New York real estate was intern...Read more