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On October 3, 2006, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Roberts entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster County, PA, and shot 10 young girls, killing five, before committing suicide as police officers stormed the school. Just hours after the shooting, Amish community members visited the gunman’s family to offer...
Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement.
The Himalayan mountain system is the planet’s highest and home to the world’s largest peaks. NATURE explores the diversity of wildlife and habitats of this mountain chain, starring the mysterious snow leopard.
Are we, in an effort to outwit raccoons, actually making them smarter and unwittingly contributing to their evolutionary success? Are the ever more complex obstacles that our fast-paced urban world throws at them pushing the development of raccoon brains? In this film, scientists from around the world share their thoughts and work to help explore this scientific...
“Slavery By Another Name” challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions: The belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Its name stirs images of the savage, the untamable. Legend paints it as a solitary, bloodthirsty killer that roams the icy heart of the frozen north, taking down prey as large as moose, crushing bones to powder with its powerful jaws. But there is another image of the wolverine that’s just beginning to emerge, one that is far more complex that its reputation...
Follow the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them on the Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey
On June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, General George Armstrong Custer ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.
State of the Union Address
PBS NewsHour presents live coverage of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address and the Republican response Tuesday, Jan. 24. Catch the coverage starting at 9pm on ThinkTV16.
During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors about advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intelligence recruited a team of brilliant minds from British universities and Hollywood studios to a country house near London.
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