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  A Brilliant Madness | Article

  Mental Illness in Film

  It should surprise no one that the myth-making industry gets mental illness, especially schizophrenia, wrong more often than right.

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  Freedom Riders | Article

  Jim Crow Laws

  The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South. 

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  Film

  Freedom Riders (español)

  La poderosa, desgarradora e inspiradora historia de seis meses en 1961 que cambiaron para siempre a Estados Unidos.

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  Public Enemy #1 | Image Gallery

  Depression-Era Desperadoes

  Mug shots of 1930s gangsters.

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  Freedom Riders | Article

  What Came Next

  The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement and marked an unprecedented level of engagement with the federal government.

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  Film

  Woodstock

  In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound: a moment that would change them and the country forever, and define a cultural revolution. 

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  Film

  The Movement and the “Madman” (español)

  Descubra la historia de cómo se enfrentaron el presidente Nixon y el movimiento contra la guerra en 1969. Contada a través de relatos de primera mano, la película revela cómo los líderes del movimiento movilizaron a grupos dispares para crear dos protestas masivas que cambiaron la historia.

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  A Brilliant Madness | Timeline

  Treatments for Mental Illness

  Learn about how mental illness has been understood and treated over time.

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  Public Enemy #1 | Timeline

  John Dillinger Timeline

  A chronicle of American gangster John Dillinger from 1903 to 1935.

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  Freedom Riders | Article

  Victory for Nonviolence

  The Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could be effective in the civil rights movement.

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  Woodstock | Audio

  The Music of Woodstock

  Enjoy this 23-hour sampling of songs that were played at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair between August 15-18, 1969.

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  Film

  Kinsey

  This probing documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements, while examining how his personal life shaped his career.

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  Film

  The Movement and the “Madman”

  Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the film reveals how movement leaders mobilized disparate groups to create two massive protests that changed history.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt | Article

  Biography: J. Edgar Hoover

  In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed J. Edgar Hoover head of the Bureau of Investigation, a position Hoover had long coveted. 

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  The Vote | Article

  Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920

  For many women, the 19^th Amendment was only the beginning of a much longer fight.

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  Freedom Summer | Article

  Remembering the Neshoba Murders in Black and White

  Five decades of calling for justice for James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.

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  Film

  Stephen Foster

  Stephen Foster was the first great American songwriter. His melodies are so much a part of American history and culture that most people think they're folk tunes. All in all he composed some 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna" "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Camptown Races." Though he virtually invented popular music as we recognize it today, Foster's personal life was tragic and contradiction-riddled. His marriage was largely unhappy, he never made much money from his work and he died at the age of 37 a nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery in New York.

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  Film

  Mr. Polaroid

  Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of Edwin Land, the man behind the camera.

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  Film

  Riveted: The History of Jeans (español)

  Descubra la fascinante historia de esta icónica prenda de vestir norteamericana. Desde sus raíces en la esclavitud hasta el lejano Oeste, los hippies, la alta costura y el hip-hop; los jeans son el tejido sobre el que está escrita la historia de la ideología y la política estadounidenses.

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  Film

  Tupperware!

  In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands — even millions — of dollars from bowls that burped.