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- Interview: In A Man's World
- Preview: Annie Oakley Preview
- General Article: Annie Oakley's Libel Suits
- Biography: Sitting Bull
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Biography: Lillian Smith
She was the toast of Victorian London, New York, and Paris. She was "adopted" by Indian chief Sitting Bull, charmed the Prince of Prussia, and entertained the likes of Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. Annie Oakley excelled in a man's world by doing what she loved, and won fame and fortune as the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot.
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The legend of the Wild West has been played out in American Popular culture since the start of westward expansion. The real-life people who helped tame the west would shape the western heroes celebrated in film and television for decades.
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
A star in baseball's golden age, Joe DiMaggio's celebrity status and tumultuous marriage to Marilyn Monroe brought him pain.
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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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The Abolitionists
How five abolitionist allies turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
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Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
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Henry Ford
The story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.
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Kinsey
With data compiled from tens of thousands of sex questionnaires, Alfred Kinsey changed America's views about sex with the Kinsey Reports.
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Daley, the Last Boss
For 21 years, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley ruled the city, building the Sears Tower and O'Hare Airport.
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The Way West
A six-hour series on how the West was lost and won, from the Gold Rush in 1848 until Wounded Knee in 1893.
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