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  • Jesse James | Article

    Biography: John Newman Edwards

    An ex-soldier, alcoholic, and newspaper editor, Edwards was instrumental in creating the mythical image of Jesse James.

  • Mount Rushmore | Article

    Doane Robinson

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

  • Wyatt Earp | Image Gallery

    Wyatt Earp in Popular Culture

    Since the earliest days of film and television, Wyatt Earp has personified the ultimate Western outlaw hero.

  • Film

    Hoover Dam

    During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming technical challenges to erect one of the greatest engineering works in history.

  • The Abolitionists | Article

    The Making of The Abolitionists

    There was no book that told the overarching story of the abolitionists, and no guide for capturing the courage and struggles of these remarkable civil rights heroes. 

  • Annie Oakley | Article

    Biography: Frank Butler

    Although he never expected to be shooting against a woman, Frank Butler accepted defeat from Annie Oakley graciously.

  • John and Abigail Adams | Article

    Biography: James Callender

    James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one of the nastiest in history.

  • John and Abigail Adams | Article

    Biography: Benjamin Franklin

    Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination.

  • Jesse James | Article

    Biography: Jesse James

    A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. 

  • The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Article

    The Producers

    Meet the producers who made The Battle Over Citizen Kane.

  • Film

    The Feud

    The real story behind the Hatfields and the McCoys, the most famous family conflict in American history.

  • 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. 

  • American Experience | America and the Holocaust | Article

    Will Rogers, Jr. (1911-1993)

    Will Rogers, Jr. was one of the most active agitators on Capitol Hill in favor of U.S. efforts to rescue the Jews in Europe. And what he achieved really made a difference

  • Murder of a President | Primary Source

    Garfield's Campaign Speech

    In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York, a trip which culminated in an address to 50,000 people gathered in Madison Square Park.

  • Annie Oakley | Article

    Biography: Annie Oakley

    Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood and become a superstar.

  • Annie Oakley | Article

    Biography: Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn.

  • The Quiz Show Scandal | Article

    Charles Van Doren

    Perhaps no other figure involved in the television quiz shows of the 1950s had a more meteoric rise and fall than Charles Van Doren.

  • Film

    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright — set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. This American Experience production is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past.

  • Film

    Cold War Roadshow

    In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America, creating a media circus as he traveled from coast to coast.

  • Film

    The Perfect Crime

    The shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.