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People (14)
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
Joseph Pulitzer
The immigrant publisher who built the New York World, 1847-1911
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
William Randolph Hearst
The publisher who bought his way to a newspaper empire, 1863-1951
Winslow Homer
The painter of the sea, 1836-1910
Places (1)
Hollywood
The Los Angeles district that became the capital of American film
Events (9)
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
The Armory Show
American audiences meet European modernism, February 1913
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
The 1964 broadcast that launched the British Invasion
The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic — cinematic landmark and racist propaganda
The Committees of Correspondence
The nervous system of colonial resistance, 1772-1775
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 Pulitzer Prize
American journalism's definition of itself, first awarded 1917
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 (6)
American Media
How the nation learned to inform, persuade, and entertain itself
Country Music
From Appalachian string bands to the Bristol sessions and Nashville
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 Ashcan School
Tenements, prizefights, and the revolt against the academy
Yellow Journalism
The Sensational Press That Helped Start a War and Shaped American Media
Organizations (16)
CBS
The Tiffany Network, from Murrow to Cronkite, founded 1927
CNN
The first twenty-four-hour news channel, launched 1980
Google
The search engine that organized the web — and its advertising, founded 1998
Life Magazine
The picture weekly that showed America to itself, 1936-1972
NBC
The first permanent broadcast network, founded 1926
PBS
The public television network of Sesame Street and the news, founded 1969
The Associated Press
The cooperative wire service, founded 1846
The Liberator
Garrison's abolitionist weekly, 1831-1865
The Library of Congress
The national library that rose from ashes on Jefferson's shelves, 1800
The National Geographic Society
The society that brought the world to America, founded 1888
The New York Public Library
The people's library guarded by two stone lions, founded 1895
The New York Times
The paper of record, founded 1851
The United States Postal Service
The mail system older than the nation, founded 1775
The Wall Street Journal
The business paper that measured the market, founded 1889
The Washington Post
The capital's paper, from bankruptcy auction to Watergate, founded 1877
Time Magazine
The newsmagazine that summarized the week, founded 1923
Technology (7)
ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet
The Cold War research network that grew into a global communications system
Radio
The medium that first brought live voices into the American home
Television
The screen that became the center of American life
The Internet
The network that gave everyone a printing press — and remade media
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
The War of the Currents
Edison's direct current against Westinghouse and Tesla's alternating current, 1886-1893
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