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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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  Film

  Henry Ford

  The story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

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  Film

  Minik

  In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Inuits for study at the American Museum of Natural History. Within months, four of them had fallen sick and died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik to fend for himself in a foreign land. 

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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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  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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  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.

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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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  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.

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  Annie Oakley | Article

  Biography: Annie Oakley

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Film

  The Feud

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

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  Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst | Article

  The Hearst Family

  Patty Hearst may have looked and behaved like an average undergraduate — but the Hearst family's wealth and media power made her a target, and turned her kidnapping into an international news event.

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  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.

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  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.