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California Gold Rush | Gold Mountains
Season 53 Episode 5
News of the 1848 discovery of gold in California spread quickly, and thousands of Chinese migrants flocked to California to seek a better life in the…
3 years, 3 months ago
California Gold Rush | Digging Deeper
Season 53 Episode 4
In the early 1850s, as people continued to flood West, California’s booming cities experienced rapid growth, but also turmoil. Fires regularly swept …
3 years, 3 months ago
California Gold Rush | Battlelines
Season 53 Episode 3
For white settlers, the Gold Rush offered a chance for fortune, but for California’s Native inhabitants, the sudden hunger for gold spelled disaster.…
3 years, 3 months ago
California Gold Rush | The Forty Niners
Season 53 Episode 2
In early 1849, thousands of gold-hungry Americans began pouring into California from the eastern United States. But most of the so-called 49ers were …
3 years, 4 months ago
California Gold Rush | The First Strike
Season 53 Episode 1
After the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, hundreds of thousands of prospectors poured into California, hoping to strike it rich. In the…
3 years, 4 months ago
Presidential Assassinations | Interview
Season 52 Episode 5
The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret Service. There have been many highs and lows in the…
3 years, 4 months ago
Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet
Season 52 Episode 4
In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington D.C. hotel. Over the next several hours, split-s…
3 years, 4 months ago
Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas
Season 52 Episode 3
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo through downtown Dallas. His violent and public death…
3 years, 5 months ago
Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition
Season 52 Episode 2
In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York to deliver a speech celebrating American achie…
3 years, 5 months ago
Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils
Season 52 Episode 1
On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died hours later, shocking the wa…
3 years, 5 months ago