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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Eleanor Roosevelt supported her husband's New Deal and advocated for civil rights, becoming one of the 20th century's most influential women.

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  Voice of Freedom

  Explore the life of singer Marian Anderson and her triumphant 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Eleanor and Mary McLeod Bethune

  Mary Jane McLeod became the president of the NACW in 1924, and was recognized by Eleanor for her efforts to help black Americans access education.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Marian Anderson: Musical Icon

  In 1939, Anderson gave a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. She delivered "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" and "America" with heart-breaking pathos.

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  FDR

  Engendering both admiration and scorn, FDR exerted unflinching leadership during the most tumultuous period in U.S. history since the Civil War and was the most vital figure in the nation during his 13 years in the White House.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Read interview exceprts with Eleanor Roosevelt biographer, Blanche Wiesen Cook.

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  American Experience | America and the Holocaust

  Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the US had an opportunity to open its doors, but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country. It was not until 1944, that a small band of Treasury Department employees forced the government to respond. 

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  The Vote

  One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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  Grand Coulee Dam

  At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

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  Citizen Hearst

  Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Wielding unprecedented power, Hearst forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics.

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  Amelia Earhart | Timeline

  Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937

  Learn about Earhart's life from her childhood spent roaming the outdoors, to her first flying lessons, to her disappearence over the Pacific in 1937.

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  God in America | Article

  God in the White House

  From Washington to Obama—the presidents' religious beliefs and their impact on politics.

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  TR

  Author, soldier, scientist, outdoorsman and caring father, he was the youngest man to become president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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  The American Diplomat | Article

  How a Black Journalist-Turned-Ambassador Changed the Game in Both Media and Diplomacy

  The Washington Post’s first Black female reporter remembers one of her heroes, Carl Rowan.

   

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  Truman

  An unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president, Harry Truman was the least prepared of all the men who had held the highest office, but he would prove to be a surprise — the unlikely rise of a gritty American original.

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  Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP

  The story of civil rights hero Walter White — one of the most influential Black men in mid-century America and leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, yet one of the least known figures in civil rights history.