This NBC Nightly New Report looks at the 1968 Presidential race, in which three Democratic candidates vied for the nomination. When Robert F. Kennedy won the California Primary, he emerged as the party's front-runner; but his victory was suddenly cut short by tragedy.
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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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Eyewitnesses recall the attacks on Pearl Harbor, 60 years after the fact.
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On the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, NBC's Brian Williams looks back at original footage of the momentous ceremony aboard the battleship Missouri when Japan formally surrendered after defeat in World War II.
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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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On the eve of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the intense deliberations that went into two historic Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the Dred Scot decision of 1857.
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