Ida B. Wells
1930 - Chicago
In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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1934 - Chicago
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1919 - Oyster Bay, New York
Physical decline, post-power irrelevance, and appetite refusing retirement.
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In Oyster Bay, a former president burns with unfinished energy and the knowledge that the country moved on without him.
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1928 - London
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The woman who led the suffragette movement writes what polite history will refuse to include about the fight for the vote.
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1934 - Passy, France
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In Passy, while her blood fails her, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences reflects on what discovery actually costs.
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
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Watched by maids, creditors, and memory alike, the inventor who lit the world reflects on the difference between vision and vindication.
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1919 - Oyster Bay, New York
Physical decline, post-power irrelevance, and appetite refusing retirement.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Oyster Bay, a former president burns with unfinished energy and the knowledge that the country moved on without him.
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1865 - White House, Washington
reform-and-justice
A contrasting life shaped by reform and justice.
In the final winter of the Civil War, a president confronts the distance between saving the Union and saving himself.
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1928 - London
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
The woman who led the suffragette movement writes what polite history will refuse to include about the fight for the vote.
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1934 - Passy, France
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Passy, while her blood fails her, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences reflects on what discovery actually costs.
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