A story of cultural genocide-a humanist experiment gone bad. The trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, the man who shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield. The story of the transcontinental railroad. A man of public triumphs and private pain. A small city in Pennsylvania is swept away in a wall of water over 30 feet high.
Former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart.
An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace. Knute Rockne, a pivotal figure in the sudden rise of sports to a position of enormous power in American life. One of the most frequently depicted and least understood moments in American history. An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book. The first man to fly across the Atlantic.