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Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia?
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In this program, The History Channel, Lowe's home improvement store, and This Old House's Steve Thomas team up to restore the 1891 McCubbins-McCanless House of Salisbury, North Carolina. Documenting the revival of the once-magnificent Queen Anne Victorian mansion, the video covers repairs and renovations to every facet of the home, from the foundation on up to the four chimneys.
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While many Americans think of the "frontier" in terms of the Wild West, it was, at various times, located in Eastern woods, Appalachian mountains, the Great Plains, and the deserts of the Southwest. In this program, host Ron Hazelton leads a fascinating tour across the country to examine prime examples of structures built by the homesteaders who propelled America's westward expansion. Starting with post-and-beam construction in the East and continuing...
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In 1607, 105 Englishmen crowded onto three ships to cross the Atlantic and make a new life for themselves in North America. They built a fort at Jamestown and established trade with the indigenous people, but things quickly turned bad: the Native Americans became hostile, the land proved unforgiving, and disease broke out. How did Jamestown, long thought to be a near-failure due to the colonists' apparent incompetence, manage to survive to become...
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