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  Riveted: The History of Jeans | Image Gallery

  Fifty years of Jeans Fashion

  From leisure suits to low-rise cuts, a brief history of the all-American fabric.

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  Eugene O'Neill | Article

  Theater Audiences

  Before Eugene O'Neill's work first hit the Broadway stage in 1920, audiences typically came to the theater in search of amusement and distraction — and got what they were looking for.

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  Film

  The Bombing of Wall Street

  The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

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  Film

  Fidel Castro

  On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

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  Tupperware! | Article

  Elaine Tyler May

  University of Minnesota historian Elaine Tyler May discusses women and work in the postwar era.

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  Article

  Running for President

  Since our country's first presidential election in 1788, the strategies of those campaigning have changed dramatically.

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  Film

  The Great Famine

  The American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921 during the worst natural disaster in Europe in 500 years.

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  Film

  Sealab

  In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.

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  Mr. Miami Beach | Article

  The Hurricane of 1926

  By 1920, the population of Miami had swelled to nearly 30,000, a 440 percent increase over the previous decade.

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  Tupperware! | Article

  Direct Selling and the American Dream

  For the people who sold Tupperware, the company offered nothing less than a boost up the ladder to the American dream.

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  The Hurricane of '38 | Article

  A Brief History of the National Weather Service

  On November 1, 1870, weather forecasts for the eastern United States were being issued for the first time, although these were just 24 hours ahead. 

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  The Riot Report | Article

  5 Times U.S. Presidential Commissions Rocked the Country

  What do a long list of iconic and controversial historical events have in common? They all got the presidential commission treatment.

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  Film

  Secrets of a Master Builder

  A self-made man and one of America’s greatest engineers, James Buchanan Eads led a life inextricably intertwined with the nation’s most important waterway, the Mississippi River. He explored the river bottom in a diving bell of his own design; made a fortune salvaging wrecks; in the 1870s built the world's first steel bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis; then deepened the river at its mouth, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation. By the time of his death in 1887, Eads was widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential men of his day.

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  Woodrow Wilson | Article

  Wilson's Legacy

  Read what historians have to say on the significance of Wilson's presidency.

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  MacArthur | Article

  MacArthur: Three generations

  Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life, from cradle to grave, in the United States Army.

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  Film

  Fatal Flood

  In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans to Illinois, leaving a million people homeless and leading to a major black migration to the North.

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  Coney Island | Article

  Technology with a Human Face

  Coney Island had a slow evolution in the late 1800s, followed by a sudden flourish between 1895 and 1905. Indeed, so dramatic was the explosion that it is tempting to think of Coney Island as a time rather than a place. But why did it blossom when it did, and why was its most colossal phase so short-lived?

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  The Amish | Article

  Who is Amish?

  An English (non-Amish) man observes another man walking down the street — he is in plain dress, he wears suspenders and a hat. He must be Amish... right?

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  TR | Article

  TR's Legacy

  Theodore Roosevelt altered American foreign and domestic policy in ways that would influence the nation for decades to come.

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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.