Professor Christopher Capozzola of MIT explains why Herbert Hoover is the real hero of World War I.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the American public's great interest in tabloid accounts of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how Abraham Lincoln's successor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, was an immediate disappointment to Lincoln supporters who wanted to protect the rights of newly freed blacks.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, to protect the rights of blacks after the Civil War, the federal government replaced state governments in the South with military districts and extended voting rights.

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This A&E clip outlines the role of the First Lady throughout U.S. history, as hostess, political adviser, spokesperson, partner, and activist. It gives examples of First Ladies acting in many different capacities.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes a new tax on liquor which provoked many of the frontiersman in western Pennsylvania to form the Whiskey Rebellion. President George Washington responded by sending troops to quell the uprising.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Espionage Act, which regulated anti-war speech during World War I and made it a federal offense to say, do, or publish things that interfered with the war effort.

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Professor Matthew Warshauer guides viewers through a political cartoon from 1836 that satirizes Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States.

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