Special Features
- Interview: Bernardo Ruiz
- Interview: His Family and His Legacy
- Primary Resources: 1971 World Series
- Interview: Orlando Cepeda
- Primary Resources: Plane Crash
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
Amelia Earhart
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Earhart disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to circumnavigate the world by airplane.
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Telegrams from the Dead
A new religion called spiritualism affected the nation in the era of Abraham Lincoln, P. T. Barnum and Frederick Douglass.
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Murder of the Century
A sensational story of power, class, and revenge in New York City when Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White over showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.
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Jesse James
America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself. Part of the Wild West collection.
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Freedom Riders
A courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
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The Massie Affair
in 1931, Grace Hubbard Fortescue received a one-hour sentence for murdering a local Hawaiian accused of raping her daughter.
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Alone on the Ice
In 1934, American polar explorer Richard Byrd became the first to experience winter in Antarctica's interior.
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Ida B. Wells - A Passion for Justice
An African American civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells was born into slavery before becoming a journalist in Memphis.
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