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"This Dictionary provides extensive political, economic, and social background on the Reagan-Bush era through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, events, institutions, policies, and issues."--Jacket.

This episode of History's Mysteries exposes the gripping, inside account of one of the most shocking crimes in modern American history: the Greensboro Massacre. On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Worker's Party held a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. A caravan of Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis drove into the center of the protesters. Screamed insults from both sides escalated into physical confrontation. The Klansmen...

This book examines the Reagan decade in which America fell from a dominant world power to a struggling debtor nation.

This episode of Biography traces the life of Ronald Reagan from his childhood in the small, working class towns of Illinois, through his career as a Hollywood actor, and his political career which took him from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican, from a two-term governorship of California, to a two-term presidency that helped define and shape policies in the 1980s and far beyond.

This episode of The New Explorers follows the Army Corps of Engineers as they use two simple algebra equations and the latest technology to stop the flood waters that devastated the city of Chicago in April,1992, bringing the nation's third largest city to a halt.

Baseball survived the 'sixties, but the game's awkward evolution was far from over, and in a sense America's national pastime was now entering its most difficult period. This program looks at baseball during the 1970s and beyond, exploring the creation of the free agent system, a ballooning rise in player salaries, additional expansion of the Major Leagues, and ongoing conflicts between labor and management. Drug scandals are another important topic....

James Meredith becomes the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi. This episode of Year by Year: 1962 also looks at John Glenn's orbiting of the earth.

Details the three historic Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama in support of civil rights.

It was the decade that saw the rise of the American counterculture, and baseball was not immune to radical change itself. This program looks at events that transformed the sport during the 1960s, including the emergence of televised baseball, an increase in expansion teams, and the building of multipurpose stadiums that many saw as robbing the game of its intimacy. Among other developments, viewers witness the debut of the California Angels, New York...