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The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".

Profiles of U.S. generals, including George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant. Also: a look back at the Roaring '20s and the lawlessness of the 1930s.

Exposing the truth behind favorite Fall holidays Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Myths cloud the real facts of America's Civil War. The North's biggest city tried to secede; the Union didn't go to war to end slavery; most deaths weren't caused by battle wounds, and Grant and Lee didn't end the conflict; two other generals did.

Profiles of U.S. generals, including Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur. Also: a look at Washington, D.C., landmarks.

On this special edition of America: Facts vs. Fiction, we explore the myths behind extraterrestrial spacecraft and we learn the truth of two pioneering flights.

Investigating the nation's most secret vaults to separate fiction from fact.

Profiles of Lewis and Clark; and Pocahontas. Also: a look at the women's suffrage movement.

The spotlight is on amusement parks and world's fairs to separate fiction from truth; explore the myths of two of our favorite holidays, Christmas and New Year's Eve.

The birth of America and the powerful people behind it are featured.

Hollywood's vision of the old west is explored. Included: the truth behind some of America's renowned rivalries.

The true stories behind America's most infamous bad guys; and the truths behind America's notorious secret societies are investigated.

The myths behind World War II are exposed. Delves into the truths that are often forgotten when it comes to America's Civil War.

The myths surrounding popular favorite vices and the facts behind the most-liked holidays are explored.

The myths behind some of history's most defining moments are uncovered, as well as revealing facts behind America's space explorations.

The science in America's history is examined, including its medical history and its nuclear age.

Myths eclipse the real facts about NASA's dramatic rescue of three astronauts aboard the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft; and Hollywood movies have a hit-and-miss track record of depicting the realties of interstellar exploration.

Much of what we know about America's secret societies is myth, not truth. The Freemasons have no evil agenda, the Mafia took root not in New York, but the South, and Harvard's Skull and Bones does not control a sinister shadow government.

Myths distort the stories of two of America's most renowned rivalries. Before their fateful duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were law partners; and the conflict between the Hatfields and McCoys didn't end in the backwoods, but a courtroom.

Did an alien spaceship crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Are scientists reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology in the Nevada desert's Area 51? Conspiracy theorists have no doubts. But the facts tell a very different story.

Myths litter the stories of America's most infamous bad guys. Al Capone was a philanthropist as well as a hood; Benedict Arnold was a hero as well as a traitor, Jesse James was no wild west Robin Hood; and we've got Billy the Kid's nickname wrong.

The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. West Point cadet Dwight Eisenhower used an alias to hide a secret and Douglas MacArthur deserved a court-martial, not a medal, for his actions in the Philippines in World War II.