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    Senator Peter Norbeck

    Senator Peter Norbeck was Mount Rushmore's great political patron and helped raise almost a million dollars for the project.

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    Doane Robinson

    Though Gutzon Borglum was its creator, Doane Robinson was the man who first conceived of Mount Rushmore.

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    Mary Borglum

    In 1901, Mary BorglumĀ and a classmate were the first two women to earn doctorates at Berlin, andĀ The New York TimesĀ commented at the time that she was "probably the most accomplished woman in the world."

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    Lincoln Borglum

    He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincon, who, probably not coincidentally, was the subject of the work that made Gutzon's national reputation as a sculptor.

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    Gutzon Borglum

    The Borglums traveled to Paris to work and study, and there Gutzon met sculptor Auguste Rodin.Ā 

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    A Controversial Play

    Even before it premiered in a small New York theater in May 1924, the play caused controversy because it depicted a relationship between a white woman and a black man.

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    Filmmaker Interview: Ric Burns

    Here he talks about his work on the life of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill drew on the tragic events of his dysfunctional family's life to produce some of the most powerful dramas of the American theater.

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    James O'Neill

    As a touring stage actor, James O'Neill exposed his son Eugene to the theater at an early age.

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    Ella O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill's mother, Mary Ellen "Ella" Quinlan, was a child of parents who immigrated to America from Ireland.

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    Eugene O'Neill's Wives

    Eugene O'Neill left the first two women he married and stayed with the third, who was the mainstay in his life until the end despite their sometimes rocky relationship.

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    Eugene O'Neill's Children

    Scarred by his upbringing, Eugene O'NeillĀ could not forge a lasting bond with his own three children.