The Cone family exemplified Jewish immigration in the South by encouraging industrial and cultural progress
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Hooray for … Ithaca? Upstate New York Town Enjoyed a Spell as Tinseltown East
Known for waterfalls, gorges, and Cornell University, Cayuga locale was perfect for silent movie ‘cliffhangers’
Tarnished Silver Senator
As a lawyer, speculator and senator from Nevada, William Morris Stewart never let laws […]
Samuel Fuller and The Big Red One
Samuel Fuller reinvented the American war movie with such gritty classics as The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, and The Big Red One.
Globetrotting Botanist Introduced America to Plum Plant Specimens
Frank Meyer combed Asia for unknown fruits and crops that proved valuable to U.S. agriculture
Census Czar Herman Hollerith’s Trials and Tabulations
Self-taught tinkerer used punch-card machine that created textile patterns to create an early computer
Ardent but Unorthodox Mohawk Woman Became America’s First Native Saint
Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification
Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
C.I. Scofield: True Believer
A reformed sinner’s annotated Bible kicked off Protestant fundamentalism
American Bonaparte
The former French emperor’s grandnephew Charles Bonaparte campaigned for good government and civil rights in America