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America: Our Defining Hours

A nation shaped by adversity; these are the stories of the challenges that helped shape a nation; surviving the starving time of the first colonies; battling for independence; heading west into the unknown; and sparking a civil war.

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Leon Panetta
Self
H.W. Brands
Self
James Meigs
Self

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

A New Beginning

Sun, Jul 5, 2020

Surviving the 'starving time' of the first colonies; battling their mother country for independence; heading out to the frontier and west into the unknown; sparking a resistance to slavery that brings the United States to the brink of war.

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