Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his campaign to preserve mountain music and dance.
The Chiricahua Apache medicine man and warrior who refused to accept white man's 'civilization.' Part of The Wild West collection.
The world famous escape artist could escape from everything - except his own mortality.
Clemente was an exceptional baseball player whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change.
In 1934, American polar explorer Richard Byrd became the first to experience winter in Antarctica's interior.
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," and the growth of the liquor smuggling industry.
A writer's childhood and the development of her photography and writing about the American South.
The legendary tale of Emeline Gurney, who - as the story goes - sold an illegitimate child at the age of 14 only to marry him at a later age.
Engineer James Eads tamed the mighty Mississippi, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation.