HistoryStudy Guides
These study guide materials are intended to accompany History Classroom programs. Feel free to print the pages for classroom use.
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Clemente Education Guide
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Life After People Education Guide
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Jim Thorpe: Lit By Lightning Education Guide
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Kevin Costner's The West Education Guide
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Thomas Jefferson Education Guide
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Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics Education Guide
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The Great War: Education Guide
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Harlem Hellfighters: Education Guide
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Kennedy: Education Guide
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761st Tank Battalion: Education Guide
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FDR
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Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters, Challenger Discovery
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Colosseum: Education Guide
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After Jackie Education Guide
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Theodore Roosevelt Education Guide
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The American Presidency with Bill Clinton: Separate but Unequal Study Guide
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Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War Education Guide
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Abraham Lincoln Education Guide
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Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War Education Guide
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Black Wall Street: Toolkit from RedFlight Innovation and Why Not? Foundation
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Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre: Education Guide
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Grant: Resources from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Grant: Education Guide
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Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution: Education Guide
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Washington Miniseries: Education Guide
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Auschwitz Untold Education Guide
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Secret History of the White House
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Presidents at War Study Guide
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Presidents at War Classroom Resources
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Project Blue Book Education Guide
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Preston Sharps’s Flags and Flowers Challenge
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Rise Up: The Movement That Changed America Discussion Guide
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Mountaintop Moments: King Center and HISTORY Guide
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The King Center: Nonviolence 365® K-5 Lesson Plan
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The King Center: Nonviolence 365® 6-8 Lesson Plan
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The 44th President: In His Own Words - Study Guide
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Roots: New Visions for a New Generation
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Live to Tell Viewing Guide
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Redesigning Our Currency Education Guide
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Education Guide
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National Historic Preservation Act Guide: 50th Anniversary
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Hurricane Katrina: I Was There
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Harlem Hellfighters Education Guide
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Texas Rising Education Guide
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What's the Earth Worth? Education Guide
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Civil War in Color Education Guide
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Underground Railroad Education Guide
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American Plate Education Guide
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American Freedom Stories: Alabama Guide
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Vikings Education Guide
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Sons of Liberty Education Guide
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Lost Treasure of the Founding Fathers: Time Capsule Education Guide
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National History Day: World War I Guide
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Curse of Oak Island
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Houdini
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WWI: First Modern War
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World War I Commemoration Guide
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The World Wars Classroom Guide and Worksheets
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Men Who Built America
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Oral History Guidelines from the Oral History Association
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Remembering 9/11
 - Big History
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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No Place on Earth
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World War II From Space
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
 - Mankind The Story of All of Us
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Civil War 150 Guide
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Stories from the Road to Freedom
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Mexico: Courage and Conquest
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How the Earth Was Made
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Jefferson
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Engineering an Empire
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How the Earth Was Made: Yellowstone
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Vikings
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Stories from the Road to Freedom
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Ultimate Guide to the Presidents
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Shark Wranglers
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History of the World in 2 Hours
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American Pickers
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Clash of the Gods: Beowulf
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Clash of the Gods: Odysseus
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How the Earth Was Made: Driest Places on Earth
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Founding Mothers
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Double Victory Study Guide
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Pearl Harbor Study Guide
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Vietnam in HD Teacher's Guide
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The Real Story of Thanksgiving
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The Naturalized
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America The Story of Us
 
The Revolution
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The Revolution: Part 1
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The Revolution: Part 2
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The Revolution: Part 3
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The Revolution: Part 4
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The Revolution: Part 5
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The Revolution: Part 6
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The Revolution: Part 7
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The Revolution: Part 8
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The Revolution: Part 9
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The Revolution: Part 10
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The Revolution: Part 11
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The Revolution: Part 12
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The Revolution: Part 13
 
This Day in History
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Introduction: Using This Day in History in the Classroom
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Apr. 21, 753 B.C. : Rome Founded
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Feb. 23, 1455: Gutenberg Bible Published
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Oct. 14, 1492: Columbus Reaches the New World
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Dec. 18, 1620: Mayflower Arrives in Plymouth
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Jul. 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence
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Sep. 22, 1862: Lincoln Issues Emancipation Proclamation
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May 10, 1869: Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Mar. 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Patents Telephone
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Dec. 31, 1879: Edison Demonstrates Incandescent Light
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Feb. 14, 1929: Invention of Penicillin
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Dec. 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Aug. 6, 1945: Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
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Nov. 12, 1954: Ellis Island Closes
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Dec. 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Ignites Bus Boycott
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Oct. 4, 1957: Sputnik Launched
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Jul. 20, 1969: Armstrong Walks on the Moon
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Nov. 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Aug. 6, 1991: World's First Website
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Sep. 11, 2001: Attack on America
 
Classroom Study Guide Archive
Events That Changed America- 
    
      
Documenting Democracy: Lesson Plans on the United States Constitution
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102 Minutes That Changed America
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World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon
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9/11: State of Emergency
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Commemorating 9/11: How-To Guide for Schools and Communities
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Making the 9/11 Memorial
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1968 with Tom Brokaw
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Alaska's Bloodiest Battle
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Desperate Crossing
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Failure Is Not an Option
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Gold Rush
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Homestead Strike
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Massacre at Mystic
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Murder at the Fair
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Scopes
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How the States Got Their Shape
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First Invasion: War of 1812
 
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Antietam
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10 Days: Antietam
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
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Sherman's March
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Shays' Rebellion
 
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Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters
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USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom
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Freedom Summer
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African-American Soldiers in World War II
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Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day
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First to Fight
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King
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Voices of Civil Rights
 
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Revolution in Boston
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Save Our History: Valley Forge
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George Washington's Workshop
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Founding Mothers
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History vs. Hollywood: The Patriot
 
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The People Speak
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The Search for George Washington
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Washington the Warrior
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George Washington's Farewell Address
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Ben Franklin
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Einstein's Letter
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Andrew Jackson
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Stealing Lincoln's Body
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TR: An American Lion
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FDR - A Presidency Revealed
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JFK - A Presidency Revealed
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RFK and the Ripple of Hope
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Jefferson
 
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America the Story of Us
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Christmas Unwrapped
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Comic Books and the Classroom: Exploring the Genre
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The Haunted History of Halloween
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Labor Day
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Live from Jamestown Teacher's Guide
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St. Patrick's Day
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The President Slept Here
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Thanksgiving
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Tlicho Nation
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When America Was Rocked
 
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The People Speak
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Family Tree
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Into The Fire: An Original Documentary
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American Lighthouses
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Teaching From the Grave
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Liberty's Kids
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Written in Bone
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National Historic Preservation Act
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America's Most Endangered
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Save Our History: Save Our Ships
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FBI Stings: Recovering Stolen History
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Save Our History: A Victorian Reborn
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WWII: The Lost Color Archives
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Crude: The Story of Oil
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Into the Fire
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Save Our Sound
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Preservation on a Shoestring
 
Global History
Ancient History- 
    
      
China's First Emperor
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Clash of the Gods: Beowulf
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Clash of the Gods: Odysseus
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Rise and Fall of the Spartans
 
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The Dark Ages
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The Plague
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The Crusades
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Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By
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French Revolution
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WWII in HD
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Band of Brothers Episode 1: Currahee
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Band of Brothers Episode 2: Day of Days
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Band of Brothers Episode 3: Carentan
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Band of Brothers Episode 4: Replacements
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Band of Brothers Episode 5: Crossroads
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Band of Brothers Episode 6: Bastogne
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Band of Brothers Episode 7: The Breaking Point
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Band of Brothers Episode 8: The Last Patrol
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Band of Brothers Episode 9: Why We Fight
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Band of Brothers Episode 10: Points
 
Science and Technology
Empires of Industry- 
    
      
Shipbuilding
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Leaves of Gold
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Black Gold: The Story of Oil
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Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
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Top Gear
 
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The Link
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Predator X
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Little Ice Age: Big Chill
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How the Earth Was Made
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How the Earth Was Made: Driest Place on Earth
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Ape to Man
 
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Prosthetics
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The Alcan Highway
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American Steel, Build to Last
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Baseball Parks
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Battlefield Medicine
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The Brooklyn Bridge
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Butcher
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Captured Light: The Invention of Still Photography
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Empire State Building
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FBI's Crime Lab
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Firefighting!
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Freight Trains
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Golden Gate Bridge
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Grand Coulee Dam
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The Great Wall of China
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Mount Rushmore
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Observatories: Stonehenge to Space Telescopes
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Panama Canal
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Plumbing: The Arteries of Civilization
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Pyramids: Majesty and Mystery
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The Railroads that Tamed the West
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Shipyards
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The Stock Exchange
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The World Trade Center