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The Bay of Pigs: a Change of Plans
Surviving Cuban-American dissidents recall the early plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and how last minute changes made by the US government foreshadowed its failure.
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Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
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Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
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Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.