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History.com: 9/11: Rescue on the Water
Apple podcast about September 11, 2001. [26:00] On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City. But when he hears an airplane flying too low to the...
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History.com: Master Plan for Ground Zero
Architects from all over the world participated in the design of the new World Trade Center site. The complex includes a park, a museum, a mass transportation hub, and the Freedom Tower. [3:37]
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History.com: The Prohibition Agents Who Became Masters of Disguise
When Prohibition began, two regular guys thought it would be fun to sign up to enforce the new law. They were right.
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History.com: 6 Famous Women Who Were Secretly Spies
These 6 women were true triple threats: performers, celebrities - and spies! From Julia Child to Audrey Hepburn, these are 6 famous women who were secretly spies, in this episode of History Countdown. [8:41]
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History.com: Virginia Hall: The Most Feared Allied Spy of Wwii
Learn how Virginia Hall, woman with a prosthetic leg, became the most feared allied spy in WWII. See how she eluded Nazi capture and aided in a victory at D-Day. [2:11]
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This is a series of 12 American Civil War documentaries including the following: Civil War Combat, Gettysburg, Grant, Images of Civil War, Sherman's March, Stonewall Jackson, Unknown Civil War, Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War, and more.
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History.com: History Shorts: Medal of Honor
Mary Edwards Walker, a doctor during the American Civil War was the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor (1866), but her fight for recognition extended well beyond the war. [1:03]
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History.com: History Shorts: Dolores Huerta Organizes a Movement
While many know the name Cesar Chavez today, his most trusted lieutenant, Dolores Huerta, was just as vital to the Mexican farmworkers movement. [1:04]
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History.com: History Shorts: Why We Pay Income Taxes
Income tax is seen as a part of American life, but this wasn't always the case. Why did Uncle Sam start taking a slice out of citizens' pockets? [1:00]
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History.com: Letters of Love From Ww2
From North Africa, back to Britain and through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two people that lived through it. This podcast includes 13 episodes.
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History.com: The Food That Built America
The Food That Built America podcast consists of 12 episodes. It takes bold visionaries risking everything to create some of the most recognizable brands on the planet. The Food That Built America, based on the hit documentary series from...
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History.com: America the Story of Us
America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. It is presented in a series of 12 documentaries from Rebels to Millennium.
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History.com: Days That Shaped America
This is a series of documentaries of historic events that forever transformed the United States.
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History.com: Grant Documentaries
In this series of documentaries "Grant" tells the unbelievable and quintessentially American story of a humble man who overcomes incredible obstacles, rises to the highest ranks of power and saves the nation not once, but twice. With a...
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History.com: The Revolution: Documentaries
This site offers a series of documentaries about the American Revolution including "Boston, Bloody Boston" ((0:44), "Rebellion to Revolution" (0:44), "Declaring Independence" (0:44), "American Crisis" (0:44) and several more.
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History.com: Liberators: Why We Fought
On April 29, 1945, the Dachau concentration camp was liberated by U.S. troops. Look back at the true story of American GIs whose final march across Germany led to a place beyond all imagination or description. This video [42:00] focuses...
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History.com: The Engineering That Built the World: The Panama Canal
Two powerful nations -- France and America -- compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every...
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History.com: D Day: The Untold Stories
This video [1:25:00] commemorates the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this gripping special presents the key events of the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe and the subsequent battles that captured the control of the Normandy coast.
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History.com: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Brooklyn's Own Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has achieved legendary status as the second woman ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court. But her path to Associate Justice was not an easy one, filled with obstacles faced by countless 20th century women...
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History.com: Presidential Election Facts
In this video [4:07] host David Eisenbach explains the history of the long election process a candidate must go through to become President of the United States.
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History.com: How the u.s. Supreme Court Decided the Presidential Election of 2000
Watch this video [5:20] to learn how Florida ended up determining whether Al Gore or George W. Bush would win the U.S. presidency in 2000. See how a vote recount in the state led to the U.S. Supreme Court giving the election to Bush and...
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History.com: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
President Teddy Roosevelt, a die-hard football fan, saved the sport from collapse and helped reshape the rules to create the game we know today. Watch this video [1:01] to find out how.
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History.com: Before the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Saved Baseball
Growing up in the Bronx, Sonia Sotomayor grew up a die-hard Yankees fan. Little did she know that one day, she would play a role in saving the entire sport. Watch this video to learn about it. [1:01]
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History.com: Roosevelt Elected to Third Term
From WGN Chicago on November 7, 1940, news reporter Fulton Lewis Jr. details the historic third-term election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States. This is the audio about the results of the election to FDR's third...