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Presents information about D. W. Griffith's silent film, The birth of a nation, and the controversy over it regarding African Americans. The film was released on Feb. 8, 1915, under the title, The clansmen. Despite protests over it, it is now recognized as having advanced the art of cinema by introducing innovative techniques. Also presents information about the history of airships. Highlights include information about the author Jules Verne, born on Feb. 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, along with other inventors and aviators interested in flight.
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Title from HTML header (viewed on November 15, 2002; last updated Feb. 2002).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
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Biography of three missionaries in the Oregan Territory in the 19th century--Cushing Eells, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, with an emphasis on the Whitmans. Provides information on their missions, their relationships with the Cayuse Indians, and the Whitman Massacre in 1847.
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