Sample some questions and answers collected by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers Project as part of the New Deal employment programs.
This guide has been created to accompany Clinton, a four-hour AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary that presents a rich biographical portrait of America's 42nd president.
Houdini was drawn into the great debate over Spiritualism. Houdini’s longest and most publicized confrontation with a spirit medium began in 1924, when he took on a woman named Mina Crandon, known publicly as "Margery."
In 1899, Harry Houdini was ready to retire as an entertainer. Acrobat, illusionist, hypnotist, and puppeteer -- Houdini had tried all of these and more, and nothing had worked. Then he met Martin Beck.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with Sherlock Holmes. People are surprised, then, to find out that the real Conan Doyle had a fervent belief in Spiritualism that dominated the final dozen years of his life.
