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  Hoover Dam

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

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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.

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  Mount Rushmore | Article

  Doane Robinson

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

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  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.

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  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. 

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  The Feud

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

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  Annie Oakley | Article

  Biography: Frank Butler

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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. 

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  The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Article

  The Producers

  Meet the producers who made The Battle Over Citizen Kane.

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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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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Lindbergh

  At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh — handsome, talented, and brave — arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic. But the struggle to wear the mantle of legend would be a consuming one. Crowds pursued him, reporters invaded his private life. His marriage, travels with his wife and the kidnapping and murder of their first child were all fodder for the front page.

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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 Secret of Tuxedo Park

  Meet Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist and whose secret lab in upstate New York developed radar technology that altered the course of World War II.

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  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.