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Niall FergusonWar of the World
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson challenges nearly all our enduring assumptions about what was, without question, the most destructive conflict the planet has ever seen.
A lone sailor in the Persian GulfCARRIER follows a core group of characters aboard the USS Nimitz, from the admiral of the fleet to the fighter pilots to the scrubs, as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, families, faith, patriotism, love, the rites of passage, and the war on terror.
Mark L. WahlbergAntiques Roadshow
Houston, Texas - Hour Two
Reliant Center
(7/5)
An early 19th-century box desk made by a renowned supplier to the British royal family; a collection of lithographed orange crate labels; and a 1959 replica of artist Edith Parson's Turtle Baby bronze sculpture.
re-enactorsLiberty or Death
Patrick Henry's impassioned plea at the second Virginia Convention of 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death," defined the American Revolution. This docu-drama captures this seminal moment in American history.
Mark L. WahlbergAntiques Roadshow
Houston, Texas - Hour Three
Reliant Center
(7/7 & 7/12)
A collection of Wedgwood Fairyland Lustreware; a watch that once belonged to Mickey Mantle; and a romantic English Regency rosewood settee.
History DetectivesHistory Detectives
A flag that may have been carried into battle by one of the few African-American infantry regiments in WWI; a painting that may be the work of Seth Eastman; and a two-story building that may have housed a Chinese Tong.
Winston Churchill in 1901Churchill
Winston Churchill: soldier, adventurer, politician, author, husband, father, and legendary war leader - a man whose political fortunes rose and fell and rose like the tide.
Alaska: Silence & Solitude
Venture into the remote wilderness of Alaska to experience the spectacular scenery, encounter bull moose, caribou, and grizzly bears.
History DetectivesHistory Detectives
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