Special Features
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Interactive
Tales from the Poisoner's Handbook
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Photo Gallery
War of the Worlds
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Photo Gallery
The Polio Crusade
Cold War Roadshow
In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America, creating a media circus as he traveled from coast to coast.
Freedom Summer
A historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.
The Poisoner's Handbook
The grave truth behind modern forensics was discovered in 1920s New York.
Then & Now
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
After World War II, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer opposed to the creation of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon even more destructive than the atom bomb he had developed in the Manhattan Project.
My American Experience
Do You Have a Cold War Story?
What are your Cold War memories? Do you remember Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S.? Share your story with American Experience.
Series Blog
Khrushchev and the Comedy of History
Nikita Khrushchev’s delightfully absurd 1959 trip across America was a hilarious journey that illustrates a truth most historians choose to ignore: History is sometimes comedy.