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Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Discover the 1946 incident of racial violence by police that led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman and set the stage for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, jump-starting the civil rights movement.

Doubts linger more than a century later about the precise location of heroics that won American World War I Sergeant Alvin York a Medal of Honor.

FBI agents were looking for a cache of fabled Civil War-era gold when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.

William “Cody” Anderson and Tony Brown died within a week of each other, causing many Philadelphians to reflect on their legacies.

Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion.