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1932 was marked by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election and Amelia Earhart's historic flight across the Atlantic. Year by Year also looks at Al Capone's sentence to jail.

Their names were linked to the two most powerful men during the Civil War. Their lives were both controversial and often times misunderstood, yet never before in American history were there two first ladies. This is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the President of the United States, and Varina Davis, wife of the President of the Confederate States of America. Although they were two women from rival governments, they led parallel lives, struggling...

The tremendous scope of the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River demanded a concentration of human will unmatched in U.S. history. Opposition to the dam prompted government newsreels to educate the public about this opportunity for new American jobs and a source of hydroelectric power for agriculture.

It's Super! It's Krazy! And it can be found in everything from carpets to computers, books to boats, shoes to the Space Shuttle. It's even used in surgery. Without it, the material world would quite literally fall apart. In this episode of Modern Marvels, we'll visit the strange and sticky world of glue. Glue's trajectory spans human history, and we'll cover it all--from Neolithic cave dwellers who used animal glue to decorate ceremonial skulls, to...

Of all the political leaders who dominated the 20th Century, Winston Spencer Churchill is unique. In 1900, Joseph Stalin was a junior clerk, Adolf Hitler, a spoiled 11-year old child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a freshman at Harvard; but Winston Churchill was already a military expert, a celebrated author, and a member of the English Parliament. This episode of Profiles traces his long, varied, and heroic career that has touched some of the most monumental...

In the spring of 1863 the Army of Northern Virginia was in great danger. Union commander Joe Hooker had managed to get his huge army behind Robert E. Lee. Unless the Confederates retreated they faced destruction, but Lee was not one for retreating. Now he and the great Stonewall Jackson would take the greatest gamble of the war. The result would make military history at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

This episode of Boneyard examines the final resting spots of large machines. B-52 bombers; aircraft carriers; passenger cars; cruise missiles; the remnants of the World Trade Towers: at the end of their lifespan, what are their after-lives? We examine the achievements of the manufacture, engineering, design, and construction of monumental manmade objects.

Archaeologists, forensic scientists and historians join forces to crack the puzzle of what really happened when the armies of Mexico and the United States met in battle at a place called Palo Alto, deep in southern Texas. State of the art equipment is used to explore several theories about what went wrong for the Mexican forces at Palo Alto. Watch experiments and expert testimony to find out whether it was their cannons, ammunition, or the terrain....

This A&E Special unveils the secrets behind the failed attempt by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles to invade the Communist stronghold and overthrow Fidel Castro's revolutionary government in April, 1961.The Bay of Pigs invasion marked the first foreign policy defeat for the new Kennedy administration and the first time a CIA covert operation had been exposed to public scrutiny.

This program from Investigative Reports looks at the phenomenon of the drug ecstasy. This "club drug" has been around since the 1980s, but exploded as a drug of choice at rave dance parties. We are granted behind-the-scenes access to U.S Customs investigations and listen as to interviews with ecstasy users as well as with medical personnel who detail the dangers of this drug. Labs in Amsterdam, small U.S. mom-and-pop manufacturers, and Israeli organized...