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  The Telephone | Article

  Inventors

  Find out more about Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Thomas Alva Edison and Thomas A. Watson

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  Murder of the Century | Article

  The Love Triangle

  ula Uruburu, associate professor and chair of the English department at Hofstra University, describes Nesbit, White, Thaw, and the murder of the century.

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  Nixon

  The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust.

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  Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided

  The six-part story of a frontiersman farmer and a wealthy Confederate slave-owner's daughter.

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  Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

  He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs, and was eventually deported. Marcus Garvey is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.

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  Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

  In 1974, a militant, fringe political group kidnapped teenage newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. In the months that followed, Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.), and their constant, paramilitary audio messages dominated headlines globally.

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  Oswald's Ghost

  The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today.

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  Ansel Adams

  From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent.

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  The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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  The Rockefellers | Timeline

  The Rockefellers

  Under pressure from his father, John D. Rockefeller drops out of high school two months shy of commencement. 

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  Rachel Carson | Article

  The Role for a Lifetime

  Actress and playwright Kaiulani Lee has traveled the world performing her play “A Sense of Wonder,” which tells the story of science writer Rachel Carson. 

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  Kinsey

  This probing documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements, while examining how his personal life shaped his career.

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  Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World

  Andrew Carnegie built a fortune in telegraphy, railroads, and steel. And then began, systematically, to give it all away.

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  Clinton | Article

  Hillary Rodham Clinton Biography

  "My mother and my grandmothers could never have lived my life." Hillary Clinton's 2003 memoir Living History.

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  The Polio Crusade | Primary Source

  Teacher's Resource

  Suggested classroom activities on how polio affected the local community and the effectiveness of the vaccine.

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  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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  Walt Whitman

  He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

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  Dolley Madison

  She defined the role of the President's wife, became America's first First Lady, and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.

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  Books Behind Bars

  Every year, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned and challenged books. This is the man who edits the list. 

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  Joe Dimaggio: The Hero's Life

  He was one of the greatest sports heroes ever — and one of the most unlikely. Raised in a poor Italian fishing community in San Francisco, Joe DiMaggio joined the New York Yankees in 1936 and quickly rose to become the star of baseball's golden age.