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John D. Rockefeller, painted in 1917 at Rockefeller's winter home in Ormand Beach, FloridaBy: John Singer Sargent

• The Ludlow Massacre, April 20, 1914
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• Pioneer Industrialist Cornelius Vanderbuilt and John Rockefeller
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• Carnegie, capitalist, calls for Nanny !
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• History channel focuses on American Industrialists like JP Morgan
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• Henry Ford was no stranger to failure
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• 'The Men Who Built America' Mini-series
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• Medicare: America's First Single-Payer System

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  The single greatest legislative accomplishment in the second half of the twentieth century came on July 30, 1965, the date President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments that created Medicare and Medicaid.
• The Life and Times of the President Who Forever Changed America

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  Hyperbole is so often used when we discuss the impact that this President or that President had on America, but that just isn't the case for the 26th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt was catapulted into the Executive Office after the assassination of William McKinley in September of 1901.
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  July 30, 1965 is a day that will go down as one of America's greatest days. After a truly bipartisan vote in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate, an amendment to the Social Security Act setting up our nations first public health insurance program passed and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Fredrick Douglass' Unique Perspective on Lincoln

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  Fredrick Douglass is one of the greatest people in American history. Douglass started life as a slave and would eventually meet multiple presidents and even be the first African-American to be nominated for the Vice-Presidency (even though he didn't seek nor acknowledge the nomination). Douglass fought against the injustice of slavery for his entire life.

• Donald Trump gives a baffling, extremely incorrect history lesson on Andre...
  	Mon May 01, 2017 | thinkprogress.org It’s not unusual for an American president to try and learn from this nation’s history. But the lessons that President...

• Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75
  	Sun Feb 19, 2017 | pbs.org Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from...

• George and Martha Up Close and Personal
  	Sat Dec 19, 2015 | thedailybeast.com Flora Fraser has an illustrious pedigree. She’s the granddaughter of the renowned historian Lady Elizabeth Longford,...

• Dec. 14, 1799: The excruciating final hours of President George Washington
  	Mon Dec 14, 2015 | pbs.org It was a house call no physician would relish. On Dec. 14, 1799, three doctors were summoned to Mount Vernon in Fairfax...

• NBC signs 'Downton Abbey' creator for U.S. period drama focusing on the fo...
  	Wed Nov 28, 2012 | dailymail.co.uk Set in late 19th century New York City, 'The Gilded Age' will follow the lives of 'the princes of the American Renaissa...

• NBC signs 'Downton Abbey' creator for U.S. period drama focusing on the fo...
  	Wed Nov 28, 2012 | dailymail.co.uk Plans are in place for America to receive a period drama of its own. And now, just six weeks out from series three, NB...

• Be Like Henry Ford: Apprentice Yourself In Failure
  	Thu Nov 08, 2012 | fastcompany.com One day in 1885, the twenty-three-year old Henry Ford got his first look at the gas-powered engine, and it was instant...

• The impact of billionaires on Detroit's revitalization
  	Wed Oct 08, 2014 | metrotimes.com Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Dan Gilbert: As long as billionaires have been around, they've been putting forth on ideas...

• THE FIRST MAN OF STEEL
  	Thu Nov 08, 2012 | hometownfocus.us Carnegie Steel helped build the America that exists today.

• The 19th-century critique of big philanthropy.
  	Fri Nov 10, 2006 | slate.com Warren Buffett's announcement in June that he was giving $31 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melind...