Elections

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Political parties were new, the losers became Vice Presidents, and negative campaigning was finding its feet in the election of 1796. Professor Jack Lynch has the history.

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For the first time, a first-hand account of the raid that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist from one of the Navy SEALS who pulled the trigger. Scott Pelley interviews “Mark Owen,” a former SEAL who was in the room when Osama bin Laden died from American bullets, in an exclusive interview.

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A Brief History of the Teleprompter

How a makeshift show business memory aid became the centerpiece of modern political campaigning

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One town’s strange journey from paranoia to pardon

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It wasn’t until after he failed as an artist that Morse revolutionized communications by inventing the telegraph

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One rogue shark. Five victims. A mysterious threat. And the era of the killer great white was born

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What are the key dos and don’ts the candidates should remember when campaigning for the White House?

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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/09/the-unknown-story-of-the-black-cyclone-the-cycling-champion-who-broke-the-color-barrier/

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A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder

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For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have been identified

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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/10/how-did-the-pigskin-get-its-shape/

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57523656/as-supreme-court-reconvenes-civil-rights-issues-in-the-fore/?tag=AverageHero;HeroImage

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