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Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
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Music During the American Civil War
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Civil War Ballooning
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The Lincoln Assassination: Was Mary Surratt a Conspirator?
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Mathew Brady's Vision
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Palladio: America's Architectural Grandfather
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John F. Kennedy's Campaign for President
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The Raid on Harpers Ferry
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The Books of Thomas Jeffersons Library
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Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev Tours America
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The Freedom Riders History
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Historian Speaks to Lincoln's Legacy
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Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
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Apollo 11 Launch: Photographed
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The Hall of Presidents
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You Have V-Mail
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The Quirky Ways of the Postal Service
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Auschwitz Survivors Tell Their Stories
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FDR: The Stamp Collector in Chief
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What Happened to Henry VIII's Six Wives?
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The Dark and Deadly History of the Plague
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5 Surprising Facts About Pompeii
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The Untold Secrets of King Tut's Tomb
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3-D Scanning: Bringing History Back to Life
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3D Preview of Petra by Virtual Wonders
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A 500-Year-Old Cold Case in the Village of Wharram Percy
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A 600-Mile Journey Across Alaska Saves the Town of Nome
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5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks
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5 Unexpected Facts About George Washington
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A Coffin Is Unearthed Using Ancient Egyptian Tech
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A Fascinating Structure Inside Ancient Tomb: "False Door" to the Underworld
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Walking Through Civil War History
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X-Ray of an Ancient Mummy Reveals Details of Noblewoman's Life
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Women Proved to Be Exceptional Pilots During WWII
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What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving?
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What It Was Like to Be Gay During WWII
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What It Took to Recreate a Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
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What It Took to Recreate a Portrait of Frederick Douglass
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What It Took to Recreate a Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Was This Cave an Ancient Lab for Preserving Human Bodies?
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Was a Jamestown Governor the Father of U.S. Democracy?
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U.S. Marine Corps Footage: Marines in the Field at Iwo Jima
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U.S. Marine Corps Archival Footage: 5th Div. Cemetery Dedication on Iwo Jima
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U.S. Marine Corps Archival Footage: 28th Marines on Iwo Jima
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U.S. Marine Corps Archival Footage: 27th and 28th Marines Embarkation at Iwo Jima
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Thomas Edison's Stunning Footage of the Klondike Gold Rush
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Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Partner in Crime
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Henri Cartier-Bresson's With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain
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Teddy Roosevelt Goes Flying
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Scotland's Most Mysterious Stone Age Settlements
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This WW2 RAF Bomber Dealt a Deathblow to the German Economy
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A Navy Plebe Re-Meets His Match
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A Rare Look at Tucker Cars
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This Pendant Is Britain’s Oldest Piece of Iron Age Art
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This Man Was Tried in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution
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This London Blacksmith Forges Replicas of Medieval Swords
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This Dangerous Trick Wowed Houdini’s Fans
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This Church Has an Eerie Visual Record of the Black Death
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Behind the Emancipation Proclamation
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America's Backyard
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American History Museum Transformed
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Andy Warhol's Headlines
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Boston and New York Competed for America’s First Subway
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Courtland Cox's View From the March on Washington
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David Burnett on Being a War Photographer in Vietnam
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David Burnett on His Experience Jumping Out of a Plane With D-Day Vets
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Historic Newsreel Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Home Movies of the Patton Family
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Joyce Ladner and the Media of the March on Washington
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John Lewis' Journey to the March on Washington
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Rare Apollo 11 Footage, Remixed and in HD
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March on Washington - Critical Past 1
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March on Washington - Critical Past 2
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March on Washington - Eleanor Holmes Norton
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March on Washington - John Lewis
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Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt
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March on Washington - Julian Bond
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Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Genius of Bayard Rustin
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Riding to Freedom
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Did the Spanish Flu Impact America's Ability to Fight in WWI?
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Elevating the Forgotten Histories of Black Women Through Folk Music
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Fannie Lou Hamer Risked Her Life for the Right to Vote
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How Conservative Groups Forced an Era of Censorship on Hollywood
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How Henry Ford Found the Right Tires for Model T Cars
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How Henry Ford Went From Pacifist to Major Supplier of WWI
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How Idlewild Courted the Black Middle Class in the 1930s
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How Lizzie Borden Became the Main Suspect in Her Family's Murder
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How Neil Armstrong Saved the Gemini 8 Spacecraft
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Is One of America's Greatest National Monuments
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How the Meaning of Thanksgiving Has Changed
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How the Titanic Sinking Became Fake News
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Indiana's Secret Parties and Perfect Popcorn
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Justice for Medgar Evers Comes 30 Years After His Murder
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The Story Behind Gene Kranz's Vest
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The Battle of the Greasy Grass
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Scientists Didn't Know Much About Earthquakes Before 1933
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Stratford-upon-Avon Is a Magnet for Shakespeare Lovers
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The 1919 World Series Fix That Tarnished America's Pastime
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The Ancient Greeks Became Fascinated with Ancient Egypt
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The Architect of Notre Dame's Astounding Football Success
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The Astonishing Spying Capabilities of This U.S. Satellite
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The Stunningly Clear Features on the Lindow Man Mummy
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The Suffragette Who Was Killed by King George V's Horse
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The Terrifying Physics of WWII Dive Bombing
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The Weird Thrills That Americans Pursued in the 1920s
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These Famous Names Came Out of Omaha
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These Mesmerizing Carvings Tell a Mysterious Tribe's Story
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This 11,000-Year-Old Piece of Wood Is More Than It Seems
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This 1935 Florida Hurricane Had a Devastating Impact
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This 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Is Spectacularly Preserved
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What Most Impressed Harry Belafonte About the March on Washington?
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Behind the Scenes with Gowns of the First Ladies Exhibit
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Chuck Yeager Press Conference, 1953
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3D Imaging of the Apollo 11 Capsule - Inside
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3D Imaging of the Apollo 11 Capsule - Outside
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A 1970s Visit to Bamiyan
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A Civil War Tour: Echoes of the Past
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A Final Takeoff
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Civil War (Joan Baez), With Dance Performance By Djassi Johnson and Kevin Boseman
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A Former Afghan Interpreter for the U.S. Military Recalls the Dangers of the Job
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A Pirogue's Eye View of Harper, Liberia
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Baker Family Films: Austria, Family and Hitler
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A Taste of Tradition
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A Tour of the C&O Canal
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About Face
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Yosemite Slideshow
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Wrongfully Admitted to Sunbury Asylum
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Alonzo Gardeners
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Colombia Dispatch Video: Palenque: A Piece of Africa in Sout
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Biodiversity Decline
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Blimp
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Bringing a 60-Year-Old Billboard Back to Life
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Building the Udvar-Hazy Center
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Bumblebees Are Feeling the Heat
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Cat and Mouse
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Celebrating the Woody Guthrie Centennial
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Charles Babbage's Difference Machine No. 2
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Constructing the Guggenheim
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Cooking with Julia Child
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Counting Down for the Liftoff to the Moon
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The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Civilization
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The Shocking History and Legacy of the Salem Witch Trials
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The Inaugural House Band
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Darwin Letter Recovered, Returned to Smithsonian
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What Really Happened With the Political Mayhem of the Election of 1800?
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How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes
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Decoding the National Cryptologic Museum
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Did New Orleans Invent the Cocktail?
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Discovery of the Lake Serpent in Lake Erie
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Driving While Black
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Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap
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What Is Jazz?
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E-Line Never Alone Video Game
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Edward Curtis: Photographing the North American Indian
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Edward Steichen's World War 2 Photographers
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In Conversation: The Descendants of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass
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FBI Cerberus Undercover Footage
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk Montage
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Fishing
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Fishing for Sharks From a Blimp
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Fishing With Irrawaddy Dolphins
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Archival Footage of D-Day
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World Science Festival: Misunderstood Geniuses—William Harvey
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Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
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Without These Whistleblowers, We May Never Have Known the Full Extent of the Flint Water Crisis
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George Friedman Predicts World War 3 Between Turkey and Poland
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Hazel Scott, Jazz and Classical Pianist, Performs Liszt
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Herman Leonard's Jazz Photographs
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Hooverball
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Why is a Piece of Joan of Arc's Dungeon in the Smithsonian?
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How Coffee Breaks Became a Staple of American Life
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How Dolley Madison Saved George Washington
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Why Do We Vote on Tuesdays?
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How to Grill Caveman T-bone Steaks
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Where the Nazis Hid $3.5 Billion of Stolen Art
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When Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Is a Civil War Hero
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What Will Happen to Puerto Maldonado
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What Roberto Clemente Meant to Baseball
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Sing Along to the Messiah
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What Is the Anthropocene?
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Seeing Baltimore Through Aubrey Bodine's Lens
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One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
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Painter Arcimboldo and His Unique Style of Portraiture
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Paul Revere
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Playing the Unplayable Records
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Political Props
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Poof! There Goes Perspiration!
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Portrait Gallery Exit Poll
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Recovering the Hunley
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Remembering the Dark Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Remembering the March on Washington
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Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
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Reviving the Ohlone Language
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Rome Reborn
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