this area includes masha, the largest town in the region, home to 50,000 people.s are growing. the sheka forest is designated by unesco as a global biosphere reserve. the development zone, which makes up roughly half the area, is supposed to be used in a sustainable way. but more and more forest is being cleared to make way for farming. >> we're in regular contact with the authorities. we're doing our best to protect the forest. reporter beehives offer one : alternative source of income. the ethiopian aid organization melca bought the hives and began offering local farmers training in beekeeping. the program is partly funded by the international climate initiative. >> by that process, the communities came out of the forest, and they are working together. and what is the advantage of this working? if they are starting the modern beehives as a group, most of the trees cannot be cut. >> thanks to the honey that we sell, we can buy clothes for our children and books for their schooling. we can pay our taxes and make our homes better. reporter: tea plantations are anot

masha miller: all i knew about grandad was that he was arrested and never released. and i knew i wasn't to ask my father about him. the only person i could talk to was my mother. it was an unspoken family rule. sergey: khoroshevo is a village located between st. petersburg and moscow. a few months ago it hit the headlines nationwide and beyond when it opened a museum about stalin. the soviet leader was also head of the red army, and during the second world war he briefly resided in this building to review developments on the front line with his generals. the room where the meeting took place resembles something of a shrine now and one that has , recently seen a growing number of younger visitors too, says the museum director. lidia kozlova: stalin achieved more than anyone else. in 30 years he transformed our state from the ploughshare to the nuclear bomb. and today we benefit from a lot of accomplishments that were made under his leadership. sergey: a view that some in russia find appalling. the human rights group "memorial" complains that the atrocities committed b

the anti-slavery movement in the area through the papers of abolitionist garrett smith, local author mashaweisman discusses her book "prelude to prison" explaining the link between incarcerations in the u.s., and talk about the book "going viral" looking at why events go viral online. >> when something goes viral, plurality is a process of social sharing. we tend to think of viral like a viral video as a video that got a million views. actual actually, it's more the process by which that happens. what happens when people share content usually into their own networks and oftentimes somebody who has a lot of following, a lot of followers are people take r paying attention that them, like an important blog, also spreads the content and then it reach as wide audience. >> on american history tv, we'll visit the erie canal museum, how it influenced the growth of syracuse, central new york state and the nation. then it's on to harriet tubman's home where the anti-slavery abolitionist acted as a conductor and caregiver to numerous people as part of the underground railroad. our trip to syracuse al