Presidential historian Michael Beschloss discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba are pointed at the United States, and JFK is faced with the prospect of nuclear war.
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Professor David Kennedy talks about the punitive nature of the Treaty of Versailles, signed after World War I.
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Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Carl Sferrazza Anthony discuss little-known facts about past presidents like Harding, Cleveland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Reagan.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces President Theodore Roosevelt's selection of his good friend William Howard Taft as his successor. However, Taft turned out to be a disappointment to Roosevelt Progressives.
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Edmund Morris discusses Roosevelt's White House years, subject of his latest presidential biography, Theodore Rex.
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The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City was the deadliest workplace disaster in New York history until 9/11. David Von Drehle, the author of Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, discusses the fire in this segment from the NBC Today Show.
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Stephen Ambrose says that the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1868 was the great achievement of the 19th century.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the Native Americans fought back throughout the 19th century, as the U.S. Army tried to contain them on smaller and smaller parcels of land.
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Historians Susan Schoelwer and Kelly Nolin believe they have found the flag that Lincoln was holding onto at the time of his assassination in 1865.
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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses President John Quincy Adams and the challenges of his presidency.
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