Special Features
- Primary Resources: MVP
- Interview: Bernardo Ruiz
- Primary Resources: 1960 World Series
- Primary Resources: 1971 World Series
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Primary Resources: 3,000th Hit
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.
Chicago: City of the Century
The story of Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town to a massive metropolis in the nineteenth century.
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U.S. Grant: Warrior
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
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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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George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
The Alabama governor and presidential candidate promised segregation forever.
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Citizen King
An African American minister whose dream of ending racism galvanized millions of Americans in the civil rights movement.
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George H. W. Bush
A biography of the 41st U.S. president, from his service in World War II to his days in the Oval Office. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
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Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
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Goin' Back To T-Town
The black residents of Tulsa relive their community's remarkable rise and tragic decline.
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