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Untold stories of China's Mao Zedong rest in guarded vaults and archives.

The Chinese army massacres hundreds of student protesters in June 1989.

At the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall divides East and West.

Muslim cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The Taliban's jihad comes to Kabul and the streets of New York.

Declassified documents reveal that American aviator Charles Lindbergh was pro-Nazi and approved of Hitler's leadership.

Corruption forms a criminal state in Havana.

How Green Bay helped carve the border with Canada; what football has to do with fur; is North Carolina the real Golden State; why everyone should move to North Dakota.

Behind blank spots like Area 51; what possessed the citizens of Key West to secede from Florida; old missile bunkers turned into dream homes; a county that was left off Georgia's quarter.

Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?; how religion shattered New England into little shapes; the Civil War's origin in Kansas.

How the U.S. is divided politically and what happens to the states caught in the middle.

The division of labor and how it shapes U.S. states and cities.

In this true story, black high school janitor Clarence Brandley (Courtney B. Vance) is convicted of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old white student. Despite a lack of clear-cut evidence, he receives the death penalty. City councilman Jew Don Boney (Eamonn Walker) and young lawyer Mike DeGeurin (Gil Bellows) investigate, and slowly uncover a conspiracy by authorities to convict Brandley. Convinc

Despite its high percentage of Jewish residents, neo-Nazi Frank Collin (George Dzundza) chooses Skokie, Ill., as an appropriate place for him and his followers to stage a rally. The local Jewish community -- among them more than a few Holocaust survivors -- objects, but they're divided as to how they should respond. Some are in favor of simply ignoring the action, thereby denying the Nazi group an

Religion through U.S. history.

States changed by urban expansion.

Hidden features of the Midwest.

The future of the conquered American West.

Rebels and outlaws shaping states.

Texas is the largest state.

The Hatfield and McCoy feud almost launched a war between two states.

Rural cultures clashed and shaped states.

How Green Bay helped carve the border with Canada; what football has to do with fur; is North Carolina the real Golden State; why everyone should move to North Dakota.

Behind blank spots like Area 51; what possessed the citizens of Key West to secede from Florida; old missile bunkers turned into dream homes; a county that was left off Georgia's quarter.

Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?; how religion shattered New England into little shapes; the Civil War's origin in Kansas.

How the U.S. is divided politically and what happens to the states caught in the middle.