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The Quirky Ways of the Postal Service
Over the years, the mail has been delivered by train, donkey, bus, truck and even rocket (05:09)
Remembering the Horrors of Auschwitz
From the moment they arrived at the concentration camp, Jews and other Holocaust victims were treated like animals, and only a lucky group survived the experience (5:47)
A Tour of the C&O Canal
Dating back to 1831, the C&O Canal was an essential link in connecting a vastly growing country (03:58)
The Residents of Arlington Cemetery
While President Kennedy may be one of the best known gravesites in Arlington, there are many other notable Americans buried there (03:40)
The Raid on Harpers Ferry
In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (04:06)
The Books of Thomas Jefferson’s Library
Jefferson's respect for the Enlightenment ideals of Memory, Reason and Imagination shaped how he organized his library (03:59)
The Stamp Collector in Chief
A stamp collector since childhood, Franklin Roosevelt designed postage stamps to help promote his presidential agenda (05:01)
A Navy Plebe Re-Meets His Match
Photojournalist Lucian Perkins reunites Naval Academy graduates Sandee Irwin and Don Holcomb, 30 years after his photo captured the new gender dynamics at the school (04:25)
Nikita Khrushchev's Great American Tour
As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California (05:22)
Counting Down for the Liftoff to the Moon
Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to Florida in 1969 to watch the launch of Apollo 11 (03:50)
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