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Stories to Go Learn more about Minik and his plight in this week's podcast.  Watch a Preview Visit the web site for a sneak peak at Minik, the Lost Eskimo. Quicktime and Windows Media platforms supported. Learn More Read an essay about North Pole explorer Robert Peary from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film Alone on the Ice.   THE PRESIDENTS To Go is a new series of election-year podcasts that connect today's election issues to past presidents. In the latest episode, international relations professor Ernest May from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and history professor Kristen Hoganson from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign discuss elections campaigns during times of war, and examine the role of military experience in presidential leadership.   On TV Monday: Minik, the Lost Eskimo In April 1897, six polar Eskimos arrived in New York City. Far removed from the home they had known in Greenland, where their Inuit community numbered just 234 people, they found themselves in the heart of a teeming metropolis. The youngest of the band was seven-year-old Minik. The Eskimos were the exotic cargo of explorer Robert Peary, whose ambitious quest to reach the North Pole would leave him unable to oversee the Eskimos' care once he left them in New York. Within months, four of the Eskimos died and one returned home, leaving Minik an orphan. For more than a decade, Robert Peary would persist in his efforts to reach the North Pole, while Minik struggled to create a home and an identity thousands of miles from his native land. Minik, the Lost Eskimo tells the parallel stories of an Eskimo and an explorer whose meeting forever changed the many lives, and examines an overlooked chapter in the history of American exploration.   THE PRESIDENTS Online. On TV. On the Go. How do you end a war? Can the President abuse his power? When is it okay to lie? What do you think? Log on to THE PRESIDENTS Online and watch film clips from the biographies of seven 20th century presidents: FDR, Truman, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and coming in May, George H.W. Bush. Then, register for free to participate in the online discussion, and read comments from fellow viewers.     Make sure your voice is heard on Election Day Still need to register to vote in your state's spring primary or the general election? Just visit the League of Women Voters' elections website, VOTE411.org, to get started.  Features include the only nationwide polling place locator, an online registration tool, important deadlines, absentee and overseas ballot information, candidate information, and specific details about voting in your state.