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  Buffalo Bill

  William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today.

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  The Mormons | Timeline

  Timeline: The Early History of the Mormons

  Follow this chronology that details Mormon beliefs and major events.

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  Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

  The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry, from its origins off the coast of New England, through the age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the Civil War. 

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  The Crash of 1929

  The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.

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  Zachary Taylor

  In a three-way race against the Democrat Lewis Cass and the Free Soil Party candidate Martin Van Buren, Taylor won a narrow victory over Cass.

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  Building the Alaska Highway | Timeline

  Alaska from Russian Colony to U.S. State

  Learn about Alaska's history from 1932 up to 2010.

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  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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  Citizen Hearst

  Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Wielding unprecedented power, Hearst forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics.

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  Shifting Political Landscapes during Lincoln's Presidency

  As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Would the new territories extend it or prohibit it?

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  The Alaska Pipeline | Article

  How the Pipeline Transformed Life in Alaska

  There were only two police officers patrolling Fairbanks when the Trans-Alaskan pipeline project arrived on the scene. J. B. Carnahan was one of them. Then, almost overnight, the sleepy town of Fairbanks became a boomtown.

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  Martin Van Buren

  Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency.

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  Chicago: City of the Century | Image Gallery

  Faces in the Crowd

  Chicago documentary photographer Sigmund Krausz published his Street Types of Chicago in 1892. Rather than take photos on the streets, he lit and posed subjects against a neutral studio backdrop to create what he termed "Character Studies."

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  The Alaska Pipeline | Article

  The Discovery of Oil on the North Slope

  BP had been about to give up looking when Atlantic Richfield and Humble Oil tapped in to a vast oil field in the spring of 1968.

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  Kit Carson

  The ultimate frontiersman, Carson inspired popular novels before being associated with the "Long Walk" of the Navajo people.

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  The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

  Leland Stanford

  Slow to speak, a deliberate thinker, Stanford was characterized by a plodding nature that repeatedly vexed his railroad partners. However, he relished public life, and it was in this capacity that he best served the Central Pacific.

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  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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  Plague at the Golden Gate

  Follow the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900.

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  Fly Girls

  In the midst of WWII, the call went out: women with flight experience were needed to fly for the military. Women postponed their weddings, put their educations on hold, and quit their jobs to respond.

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  Around the World in 72 Days

  At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become known as "the best reporter in America." The daring Bly continually risked her life to grab headlines. To expose abuse of the mentally ill, she had herself committed. When she traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity.

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  Jesse James | Article

  Zerelda James

  Zerelda James was a slaveholder and unabashed supporter of the Southern cause.