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After recovering from his arm injuries, the Chicago White Sox recruit Morris in the fall of 1988.
See what trains (and their power sources) look like during the early years of the transcontinental railroad.
In 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific finish their joint building of the Transcontinental Railroad which connects America's east and west coa...
Benedict Arnold, a general for the Continental Army, devises a plan to yield West Point to the British. His name, forever after, means "traitor" to Am...
John Andre gets caught trying to assist Benedict Arnold in his plan to give-up West Point to the British. Because he is wearing a disguise, Andre is c...
Read stories of America's response to September 11 from survivors and the families who lost loved ones.
"No Man's Land" is the open and dangerous territory between Allied and German trenches during WWI.
The people prosecuting Joan decide her fate before the trial begins. She is not given a lawyer and the person prosecuting her is also the judge in the...
Czolgosz may be insane, but his justice is swift, and he dies in the electric chair after confessing why he killed McKinley.
After his U-2 plane is shot-down over Soviet territory, Francis Gary Powers must stand trial in Moscow as a spy. Before that, he faces numerous interr...
False evidence and a conviction of treason result in a death sentence for Marie Antoinette.
James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.
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