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People (11)
Babe Ruth
The slugger who remade baseball and became America's first sports superstar
Bonnie and Clyde
The Depression-era couple whose two-year crime spree ended in a Louisiana ambush
Dorothea Lange
Documentary Photographer Who Gave the Depression a Human Face, 1895–1965
Gloria Steinem
Journalist and activist who became the defining public voice of second-wave American feminism
Ida B. Wells
Journalist, anti-lynching crusader, and one of the founders of the NAACP
Ida Tarbell
Investigative Journalist Who Broke Standard Oil, 1857–1944
Joe Louis
The heavyweight champion whose 1938 fight became a battle of nations
Norman Rockwell
America's most beloved illustrator — and a more complicated artist than his reputation suggests
Thomas Paine
The radical pamphleteer who talked a continent into revolution
Upton Sinclair
Muckraking Author of The Jungle Who Accidentally Reformed the Food Supply, 1878–1968
William Lloyd Garrison
Publisher, abolitionist, and the loudest moral voice against American slavery
Places (1)
Hollywood
The Los Angeles district that became the capital of American film
Events (10)
ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet
The Cold War research network that grew into a global communications system
Election of 2016
Donald Trump's upset of Hillary Clinton remakes American politics
Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight
The 1927 solo crossing that made Charles Lindbergh a global icon
Radio
The medium that first brought live voices into the American home
Television
The screen that became the center of American life
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
The 1964 broadcast that launched the British Invasion
The Miracle on Ice
The 1980 Olympic hockey upset that became a Cold War triumph
The O.J. Simpson Trial
The 1995 "trial of the century" that exposed America's racial divide
The Telegraph
How Morse code severed the link between communication and travel
The Telephone
The 1876 invention that let the human voice travel across the wire
Documents (4)
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet that made independence a popular cause
Espionage Act of 1917
The Wartime Law That Criminalized Dissent — and Never Went Away
First Amendment
The constitutional guarantee of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition
Pentagon Papers
The leaked Defense Department history that revealed the government had systematically lied about Vietnam
Concepts (5)
American Media
How the nation learned to inform, persuade, and entertain itself
Muckraking
The Progressive Era journalism that exposed America's hidden costs of industrial prosperity
Sports in America
How games became one of the nation's great stages for race, money, and identity
The Internet
The network that gave everyone a printing press — and remade media
Yellow Journalism
The Sensational Press That Helped Start a War and Shaped American Media
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