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Fess Parker as Davy Crockett - Spark that lit the Crockett Craze of the 1950s
Actor Fess Parker in his role as Davy Crockett in the Disney Studio's production of the Davy Crockett miniseries (1954-1955). Parker's Crockett was so electrifying that it led to...
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Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi
A woodblock print presenting actor Arashi Rikan II as the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645). Created by Gigadō Ashiyuki around 1832.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Edwin Booth as Richard III
Edwin Booth, famous 19th-century American actor, brother of John Wilkes Booth, as Richard III of England, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III. Print by Henry Duff Linton, 1872. Folger Shakespeare...
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Old Silenus
A statue of a comic actor in the costume of Old Silenus, a companion and teacher of Dionysos, the god of wine. He holds a drum and has an empty wine skin over his shoulder. 2nd-1st century BCE, Delos. (Site Museum, Delos)
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John Wilkes Booth
Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Douglas Fairbanks Raising Funds in WWI
An April 1918 photograph showing the actor Douglas Fairbanks and a crowd during the campaign to raise funds for United States Liberty Bonds during the First World War (1914-18).
Imperial War Museums, London.
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John Wilkes Booth, c. 1862
Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...
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The Confession of Nat Turner | Read by Brock Peters (1968) | John Henrik Clark
From the liner notes– read by Brock Peters with Martin Donegan as T. R. Gray The reading of, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by the distinguished actor, Brock Peters, represents...
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Police in Ancient Egypt
In any society, members of the community recognize they are required to restrain certain impulses in order to participate in the community. Every civilization has had some form of law which makes clear that the benefits...
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Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" read by James Earl Jones
In a July Fourth special broadcast, we share the words of Frederick Douglass as read by actor James Earl Jones. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader...