Oswald's Ghost |
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Professor Barbie Zelizer spoke to American Experience about the media coverage of President Kennedy's assassination.
Oswald's Ghost |
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Get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.
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From 19th century immigration to Prohibition to today's explosion of microbreweries, the beer industry in America has evolved over time.
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The film some historians have called “America’s most beloved” is wartime propaganda disguised as a Hollywood love story.
Grand Central |
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In June 1938, the New York Central introduced new locomotives and Pullman cars.
Grand Central |
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The Park Avenue tunnel, built to remove trains from Manhattan's surface and boost public safety, was itself dangerous: dark, smoky, with poor visibility.
Grand Central |
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At Woodlawn, in the Bronx, as the train rounded a curve, it flew off the tracks. In an instant 20 people were killed and 150 injured.
Grand Central |
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After almost ten years of renovation and reengineering, the new Grand Central Terminal opened to the public precisely at midnight on February 2, 1913.
Annie Oakley |
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How accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
Walt Whitman |
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Although he did not have much formal schooling, Whitman was alive to the world around him, wandering through the natural bounty of Long Island and through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Walt Whitman |
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While in Washington, D.C., Whitman discovered that he had something to contribute to the war effort — himself.
Walt Whitman |
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Whitman did not have a high opinion of the ten percent of Brooklyn residents who were of African descent, yet he thought slavery abhorrent.
