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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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  Annie Oakley | Article

  Biography: Lillian Smith

  This brassy Californian emerged as Annie Oakley's only serious female rival in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show.

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  John and Abigail Adams | Article

  Biography: Abigail Adams

   Like young girls of her time, Abigail lacked a formal education, but from youth she was intelligent, well read, and outspoken.

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  John Brown's Holy War | Article

  James Redpath

  James Redpath's interview with John Brown debut in the press. But it wasn’t until the battle of Osawatomie that John Brown, the abolitionist hero, fully emerged.

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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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  Ulysses S. Grant | Article

  Samuel Clemens Biography

  The world knows him as Mark Twain, the perpetually quotable writer of such classic American novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. 

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  Alone on the Ice

  Admiral Richard E. Byrd became an American hero for his daring expeditions to the North and South Pole.

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  Mount Rushmore

  High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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  A Brilliant Madness

  The story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness. At the age of 30, John Nash, a stunningly original and famously eccentric MIT mathematician, suddenly suffered a breakdown.

   

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  Roberto Clemente

  An in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar. 
  Visite la página en español de la película y véala con subtítulos en español.

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  The Civilian Conservation Corps | Article

  Teacher's Guide

  Explore the goals and successes of the CCC, and debate whether such a program might be appropriate today.

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  The Rockefellers | Article

  Biography: John D. Rockefeller, Junior

  It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its legacy

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  The Great Transatlantic Cable | Article

  Cyrus Field (1819-1892)

  Driven to succeed yet patient in times of failure, Cyrus Field kept the cable project going for twelve long years, crossing the Atlantic more than 30 times.

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  Roberto Clemente | Article

  Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz

  An interview with Roberto Clemente filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz.

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  The Rockefellers | Article

  Biography: Nelson A. Rockefeller

   Turning his back on the intense privacy that had shielded the family for generations, he took the Rockefellers in a bold new direction. He wanted to be popular and powerful. 

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  The Kennedys | Article

  JFK

  Among the domestic policies Kennedy instituted were the establishment of the Peace Corps, the Apollo space mission to the moon, and the introduction of civil rights legislation.

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  Jesse James

  He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.

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  American Comandante

  American comandante William Morgan went to Cuba to help Fidel Castro return the country to a democracy. Instead, four years later, he was executed.