Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future.
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A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his campaign to preserve mountain music and dance.
The African American jazz composer and bandleader performed regularly at Harlem's Cotton Club, leaving a legacy in music.
The story of Liliu'okalani, the last queen and ruler of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii.
A great playwright's turbulent story, from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career to his lonely, painful death.
With data compiled from tens of thousands of sex questionnaires, Alfred Kinsey changed America's views about sex with the Kinsey Reports.
Politics, culture, race relations, and technology in a year of change.
The Alaskan Highway stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.