The Grateful Dead took a $615,000 federal grant to establish a "free" museum at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Abraham Lincoln stood on the Constitution, but also made real the most profound change American society needed to make.
Shreveport, Louisiana cleaned mold and mildew from a building - an abandoned housing project - then demolished it anyway.
Jesse Owens broke records at the 1936 Munich Olympics, won four gold medals - and formed a friendship with a German athlete.
A look back at Eric Liddell, who won glory 100 years ago by not running on Sunday, but winning Olympic gold in a different foot race.
A history professor holds that Nixon could have survived Watergate had he been partisan enough, and asks what Nixon did wrong.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) squandered money on a deserted monkey house and over 300 vacant buildings.
Joe Biden, like Richard Nixon half a century ago, dropped out of the race because his party abandoned him at a critical moment.
Kim Cheatle, while director of the Secret Service, tried to destroy the cocaine that a uniformed officer found in the White House.
Actress Lesley-Anne Down remembers the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as national leader, and as a subject to portray.