Episode Details

Galileo is forced by the Roman Catholic Church to recant his observation that the Earth revolved around the sun, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant approves the creation of the Department of Justice, Nazi Germany takes France then invades Russia, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the G.I. Bill, and the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio bursts into flames. Also a reading from "Reconstruction," by Frederick Douglass.