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A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom...

LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at...

It began with the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861 and ended four years later with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the eradication of slavery...

From the first Pilgrim celebration to the Macy's parade, here are the familiar stories and little-known facts behind one of our most beloved holidays.

Did Hamilton really fire his shot in the air? Did Burr really intend to kill his long-time rival? Why did these two statesmen end up targeting each...

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937 is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time. Years later,...

A team of archaeologists seek to uncover the secrets of World War One by finding and excavating a German and a British trench.

An in-depth look at the armaments used in the second Iraqi war. Some are familiar--such as the B-2 Stealth Bomber--while others are profiled on...

Traces the bitter and often spirited battle over the morality and censorship of movies from the birth of the motion picture industry in the early...

Available on program for the first time, Ben Franklin is a fresh, down-to-earth, informative look at one of America's most essential human monuments.

A history of the Samuari.

Kerry, Kathleen and Robert Kennedy, Jr. share personal recollections of their father on the 50th anniversary of his death. Robert F. Kennedy's...

A documentary describing the beginning of the Internet

August 6th, 1945--the first used nuclear bomb drops above Hiroshima, changing history forever. Contrary to popular belief, no film footage of the...

Throughout world history, great civilizations have survived and extended their rule through dependence on great infrastructures. Rome had its roads...

Release on The History Channel as "Tales of the Gun". The gun is arguably the most important invention in the history of mankind. But of the...

What would our world look like if we ran out of oil? The lifeblood of our high-tech, highly mobile world won't last forever. Watch one scenario of...