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Re-enactors relive the Battle of Baltimore and celebrate the flag that inspired our national anthem. (03:52)

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Amelia Earhart's Final Takeoff

Watch Amelia Earhart's final takeoff on July 2, 1937 (00:40)

New technologies helped recover the H.L. Hunley (04:47)

Anna Coleman Ladd fits soldiers for masks in her studio (04:04)

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Re-enactors relive the Battle of Baltimore and celebrate the flag that inspired our national anthem. (03:52)

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Convention artifacts and other campaign memorabilia (04:23)

Presidential Shocker

See President Johnson withdraw from the 1968 race (05:41)

Amelia Earhart's Final Takeoff

Watch Amelia Earhart's final takeoff on July 2, 1937 (00:40)

Recovering the Hunley

New technologies helped recover the H.L. Hunley (04:47)

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Anna Coleman Ladd fits soldiers for masks in her studio (04:04)

Grisly Photographs From the Civil War

Forensic Anthropologist Confirms Survival Cannibalism at Jamestown

The Human Experience Captured Through a Phone

Daily Routine

Playing the Unplayable Records

Grisly Photographs From the Civil War

Oasis of the Seas: The Biggest Cruise Ship in the World

Forensic Anthropologist Confirms Survival Cannibalism at Jamestown

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