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Introducing: It Was Said
Introducing: It Was Said

Words move humankind for good and for ill, and in the American experience, our most important public speeches have been both mirrors and makers of th…

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Shaving Russia
Shaving Russia

Season 1 Episode 36

Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious figures and friends gather to welc…

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The First American Sex Scandal
The First American Sex Scandal

Season 1 Episode 35

August 25, 1797. Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, has published a new pamphlet. At first, readers assume this is going to be…

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Suffrage isn't Simple
Suffrage isn't Simple

Season 1 Episode 34

August 18, 1920. In the third row of the legislative chamber in Nashville, Tennessee, 24 year-old Harry Burn sits with a red rose pinned to his lapel…

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The Birth of Hip Hop
The Birth of Hip Hop

Season 1 Episode 132

August 11, 1973. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc plays his first New York City party. The dance floor is packed, the e…

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Killing Fairness
Killing Fairness

Season 1 Episode 32

August 4, 1987. The Federal Communication Commission’s leadership has come together in Washington D.C. to decide the fate of a vital issue: fairness.…

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Convert or Leave
Convert or Leave

Season 1 Episode 31

July 31, 1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied out. Houses abandoned, stores closed, and synag…

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Public Enemy #1
Public Enemy #1

Season 1 Episode 30

July 22, 1934. John Dillinger, America's most famous outlaw, is gunned down by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Dillinger's de…

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Destroyer of Worlds
Destroyer of Worlds

Season 1 Episode 29

July 16, 1945. It happened within a millionth of a second. In the New Mexico desert in the early morning hours, a group of scientists watched in anti…

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Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat

Season 1 Episode 28

July 10, 1943. 150,000 British and American soldiers storm the beaches of Sicily in the first Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe. But the Nazi…

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