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UNTOLD STORIES THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE

You many not know their names, but their contributions are woven into the fabric of our country and documented forever in records.

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Enrique Alférez: Sculpting a City

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The First Black Woman Publisher

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Bertha Gonder: The Woman Behind the Engine

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Hazel Ying Lee and the Airforce Service

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Maria Teresa Cuevas: The All-Woman Mariachi Band

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James V. Paschal: Where Civil Rights Leaders Went to Lunch

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250 Stories

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Dive into our collection of untold stories from across the land.

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Chuck Berry: The Father of  Rock n’ Roll

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William DeHart Hubbard: The First Black American Gold Medalist

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Another Way Eartha Kitt Used Her Voice

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Halston (Roy H. Frowick): A Style Icon Goes to Paris

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James V. Paschal: Where Civil Rights Leaders Went to Lunch

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Joseph Albertson: The Supermarket Magnate

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The First Black Woman Publisher

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The Story of Lewis Without Clark

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Deborah Sampson Gannett: A Hero in Disguise

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Hazel Ying Lee and the Airforce Service

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Doris Haddock: “Granny D” and Her Walk of Fame

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Susan La Flesche Picotte: Physician, Reformer, Mom

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Bessie Coleman: The Sky’s the Limit for ‘Brave Bessie’

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Frederick McKinley Jones: The “King of Cool”

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Will Rogers in the Cherokee Nation

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Thelonious Monk: Notes from a Jazz Legend

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Madame Sul-Te-Wan: Ready for Her Close-Up

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Harvey Kuenn, Jr.: A Short Stop’s Long Game

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Helen Gurley Brown’s Rise to the Top

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Siegfried & Roy: A Magical Duo  Fit for Vegas

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Alligator Joe: Man vs. Reptile

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E.B. White: From Cornell to Charlotte’s Web

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Bertha Gonder: The Woman Behind the Engine

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Wyatt Earp After the Wild West

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Doris “Dorie” Miller: A Hero at Pearl Harbor

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Clint Hill: The Secret Service Agent

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The Wright Brothers at Home

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Henrietta Bowers Duterte: The Undertaker and the Underground Railroad

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Hetty Green: The Queen of Wall Street

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Estevan Ochoa: The First Hispanic Mayor of Tucson

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The Death of Bruce Lee

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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: The First American-born Saint

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Mary E. Glasko: Princess Red Wing

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Levi Strauss Before Jeans

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Bob Barker in the Great Plains

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Eunice W. Johnson: A Pioneer for Haute Couture

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Anna Maria Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day

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Lilly Ledbetter: She Fought for Equal Pay

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Enrique Alférez: Sculpting a City

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Barney Ford: Going for Gold

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Esther Hobart Morris: The First Woman Justice of the Peace

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Wesley Williams: Courage Through the Fire

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Ernest Taylor Pyle: A Journalist on the Frontlines

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Philo T. Farnsworth: Farm Boy to Father of Television

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Mary Church Terrell: A Pioneer for Equality

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Einstein Makes Princeton Home

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Georgia O’Keeffe: New Mexico Was Her Canvas

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P.T. Barnum: The Ultimate Showman

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Richard Wright: A Novelist and His Military Lineage

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Maria Teresa Cuevas: The All-Woman Mariachi Band