E.C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870s and 1880s. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds that were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story,...

In 1885, Elizabeth Jane Cochran -- pen name, Nellie Bly -- was hired as one of the first female journalists after writing a scathing rebuttal to a misogynist newspaper column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The newspaper's editor was so taken aback by Bly's incendiary prose that he posted an ad asking the article's author to come work for him. Within five years, Bly had become the first "girl stunt reporter," going undercover to write wildly popular stories...

Presents the lyrics for an assortment of popular camp songs, such as "Rise and Shine," "The Peanut Song," "Do Your Ears Hang Low," "This Land Is Your Land," and "Kum Ba Yah." The mosquitoes are out and biting, the rain's coming down in buckets, and there's poison ivy on the trail. We're a long way from home and the food here stinks! Camp wouldn't be camp without troubles to share. But there are also new friends to make, adventurous trails to be climbed,...

(Campaign for a new American): "An Indian immigrant's daughter campaigns to be elected as the first woman of color to the city-council of a working class town that has always been a magnet for immigrants. The town, 38% new immigrant, is still being run by the offspring of last century's immigrants. Win or lose--the new folks on the block will sooner or later take the reins of power and responsibility--or will they?"--Community Supported Film website. (She's...

With a focus on Holy Spirit power, charismatic Christians stirred enthusiastic responses across America just after 1900, first at a Bible school in Topeka and then in a small mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Almost immediately, the religious revival spread to Houston, Chicago, and then northeastern urban centers. By the early 1910s the fervor had reached most parts of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico, and eventually the converts...

"Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six a day. As the collaboration deepened, a third "voice" emerged that neither poet can claim as solely their own. The poems of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts read as lyric snapshots of a culture...