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Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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In this episode, the story comes up to date with the 20th century. Starting at Munich's beer halls, we learn about Hitler's first revolt at the Munich Putsch which resulted in his imprisonment at Landsberg, where the young Hitler was to dictate his memoirs, Mein Kampf. Whilst Hitler was fighting for power in Germany, women were fighting a different battle, that of sexual rights. In the back streets of Manhattan, nurse Margaret Sanger works with American...
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Composed of civilian soldiers, the National Guard is part of the first-line defense for our country and trained to respond to domestic emergencies and wars abroad. This episode of Defending America examines the history of the agency, which is directly descended from regiments formed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War to the present day war in Afghanistan, the National Guard has played a key role in America's...
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, hosted by NBC news commentator Bob Wilson, shows eight case histories depicting the strife and struggles around the world since World War II. Viewers of this video from the National Archives and Records Administration will gain a greater understanding of cold war events through the U.S. Army camera's eyes. Cases include Malaya, Vietnam, Greece, Korea, Guatemala, Lebanon, Taiwan,...
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January 24, 1848. Coloma, California. In a saw mill belonging to Swiss pioneer John Sutter, James W. Marshall, a carpenter, finds pieces of shining metal in the stream next to the saw mill: it’s gold! Marshall shares his discovery with his boss, who decides to keep this news secret—a secret the two men are unable to keep. The news spreads like wildfire and is confirmed by a number of newspapers in March 1848. It’s the start of an unprecedented...
16) Never Surrender
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Shawnee warrior Tecumseh unites the Native American tribes to resist expansion; after Thomas Jefferson orchestrates the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark make their legendary expedition to the Pacific; and a new war for America begins.
17) Trail of Tears
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This emotional documentary dramatically re-tells the story of the Trail of Tears, the brutal relocation of Native Americans from their homelands in the East to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Men, women, and children were forced to march more than 1,000 grueling miles to territories west of the Mississippi. Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation on the march, and many died, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated...
18) A New War Begins
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As the nation attempts to rebuild following the destruction of the Civil War, Cornelius Vanderbilt is the first to see the need for unity to regain America s stature in the world.
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Imagine being black and a slave in the 1700s in the U. S. and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital, Washington, DC, and inventing a clock in 1753. In 1791 alone, Benjamin Banneker completed the survey of Washington, DC, published his first almanac, and confronted one of the nation’s founders, Thomas Jefferson, about his doctrine of Black inferiority. This program from Tony Brown's...