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  Houdini | Article

  Jack and Charmian London

  Jack London and Harry Houdini quickly became friends when they met in 1915. But on that day, they would have been shocked to know what their future held: London would soon be dead, and not long after Houdini would carry on an affair with his widow.

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  Walt Whitman | Article

  Leaves of Grass

  Still widely read today, it serves as an autobiography of sorts, recording some of the most tumultuous decades of American history.

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  The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film | Article

  New York After WWII

  The New York City that emerged from World War II was a dramatically different place than the city that had entered it four years before.

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  Mary Pickford | Article

  D.W. Griffith (1875-1948)

  Griffith's failure as an actor and playwright would turn out to be a blessing for the film industry when Griffith shifted his attention to film directing,

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  The Donner Party | Article

  Call of the West

  For legions of Americans in the mid-19th century, the call of the West could not be ignored.

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  Film

  Freedom Summer

  A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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  God in America | Article

  People and Ideas: Civil War and Reconstruction

  How religious ideas and individuals' spiritual experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction era have impacted American social, political and cultural life.

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  A Portrait of Wilson

  Learn about Wilson's life, from his southern childhood, to his rise in academia, to his political career.

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  The Great Famine | Timeline

  United States Foreign Aid

  United States efforts to combat a severe food shortage internationally starting with Europe in WWI.

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  Film

  The Vote

  One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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  Emma Goldman | Article

  Greenwich Village Intellectuals in the Early 20th Century

  These rebels linked artistic experiments and radical politics together in a belief in the primary necessity of a revolution in consciousness.

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  The Kennedys | Article

  The Kennedys and Civil Rights

  John Kennedy was elected president in 1960 partly because of his promise to secure equal rights for Black Americans.

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  Klansville U.S.A. | Article

  Three Questions for Klansville U.S.A. Filmmaker Callie Wiser

  Filmmaker Callie Wiser reflects on the experience of making Klansville U.S.A. and the film's relevance in 2017.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  Before the Civil Rights Movement

  Read excerpts from journalist John Egerton's book Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

   

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  Film

  The Man Behind Hitler

  A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success. Goebbels, called the "genius of spin" and the "Reich-Liar-General," was a complicated man whose attitudes fluctuated between extremes of self-pity and grandiose excess. 

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  Murder of a President | Primary Source

  Garfield Nominates John Sherman

  At the 1880 Republican Convention in Chicago, James Garfield was called upon to make a nominating address for fellow Ohioan, John Sherman.

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  Remember the Alamo | Article

  An Alamo Visit

  Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Professor Hardin has served as a historical advisor for television and film productions on Texas history. Here, he answers questions about what it's like to visit the Alamo. 

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  The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film | Timeline

  World Trade Center (1942-2002)

  A timeline of the World Trade Center, from conception through completion, and its destruction on September 11, 2001.

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  Film

  The Chinese Exclusion Act

  The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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  Film

  Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

  In 1931, two white women made a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.