Growing up with custom cars and tail fins, the artists of Ant Farm planted their love on the plains. And the world came.
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Single mother of seven, Dolores Huerta left her teaching job and went into the fields. The United Farm Workers was born.
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"Would y'all like to see my Daddy's pottery?" He opened the garage door to reveal. . . reds, blues, yellows, and mad genius.
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A century ago, in the bleakest of years, other poets despaired. But one lit her candle -- at both ends.
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Strikeouts? Politics? Drugs? Transcendental Meditation? Ask the "Spaceman," still pitching in his late 60s. All for the love of the game.
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"Do they know about Martin Luther King?" Robert Kennedy asked as he stepped before the crowd. . .
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Not your grandfather's economist (or his wife), Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by challenging "the tragedy of the commons."
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How one woman changed the way people look at people.
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On April 2, 101 years ago, America marched into "the full obscenity of the Great War."
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"The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave." -- Rebecca Solnit
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Women had spoken, convened, rallied for the vote. For 70 years. Then Alice Paul and the Silent Sentinels stood their ground.
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Coal miners distrusted Barbara Kopple until she hunkered down with them -- for three years -- and came home with a living, breathing masterpiece.
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You say "youse." I say "you guys." You say "pop." I say "soda." Let's call ourselves American.
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When the Nobel laureate investigated the Challenger disaster, America got a science lesson from a master...
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A gem in the desert, this old copper mining town became "An American Original." But the town's darker history is often buried.
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