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Impossible Escapes: Civil War
Robert Smalls is enslaved, but he has the skills and the nerve to sail a rebel ship to freedom.
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Impossible Escapes: Civil War
Wallace Turnage was born a slave. He made multiple escape attempts. But on his sixth - and final - attempt, he endured a genuine odyssey.
Cornfield Shipwreck
Discovered by an unlikely team of amateur historians 45 feet beneath a Kansas cornfield, the Steamboat Arabia is one of the best-preserved shipwrecks in American history.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
John Doy is arrested along the Underground Railroad, but his friends are determined to set him free.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
A band of POWs held in the Confederate capital attempt the Civil War’s largest prison escape.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
When actress and Union spy Pauline Cushman is captured, her performance skills offer her a way out.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
Confederate raiders attack a small town in Vermont. A local posse tries to cut off their escape.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
Robert Smalls is enslaved, but he has the skills and the nerve to sail a rebel ship to freedom.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
Wallace Turnage was born a slave. He made multiple escape attempts. But on his sixth - and final - attempt, he endured a genuine odyssey.
Cornfield Shipwreck
Discovered by an unlikely team of amateur historians 45 feet beneath a Kansas cornfield, the Steamboat Arabia is one of the best-preserved shipwrecks in American history.
Impossible Escapes: Civil War
John Doy is arrested along the Underground Railroad, but his friends are determined to set him free.