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    Featured Letters

    In every American war, military men and women captured the horror, pathos and intensity of warfare by writing letters home. 

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    Censorship!

    Learn about wartime letters and censorship.

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    All the Ancient Gods Come to Life

    An Interview with Major League Baseball Official Historian John Thorn

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    Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

    Adams was a very active child, and felt restricted in school, which he found meaningless. When he was 13, his father began to tutor him at home.

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    Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge's 1923 State of the Union address to Congress was the first ever to be broadcast via radio. He would continue to use the medium effectively, giving at least one radio address per month. 

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    Adams' Photo Gear

    Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. 

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    One Favorite Place

    American Experience talked to William Tweed, the chief park interpreter for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. about Kings Canyon, a place that Ansel Adams helped make a national park.

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    Art or Document?

    Is photography a fine art, equivalent to the other visual arts, or a documentary tool, best suited for recording the facts?

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    Virginia Best Adams (1904-2000)

    Virginia and Ansel shared a passion for the outdoors and for classical music. 

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    Photographing the American Wilderness

    Like painters of the era, photographers were influenced by the ideas of Manifest Destiny and Transcendentalism. 

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    The Closing of the American Wilderness

    In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented his thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" at  Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 

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    The San Francisco Earthquake

    Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the deadly 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was tossed face-first into a garden wall, giving him what his friend Cedric Wright would call an "earthquake nose."