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’
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Tarnished Silver Senator
As a lawyer, speculator and senator from Nevada, William Morris Stewart never let laws […]
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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.
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Globetrotting Botanist Introduced America to Plum Plant Specimens
Frank Meyer combed Asia for unknown fruits and crops that proved valuable to U.S. agriculture
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Census Czar Herman Hollerith’s Trials and Tabulations
Self-taught tinkerer used punch-card machine that created textile patterns to create an early computer
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Ardent but Unorthodox Mohawk Woman Became America’s First Native Saint
Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification
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Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
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C.I. Scofield: True Believer
A reformed sinner’s annotated Bible kicked off Protestant fundamentalism
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American Bonaparte
The former French emperor’s grandnephew Charles Bonaparte campaigned for good government and civil rights in America