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- We Profile Five Special People Who Died This Year (2005-12-18)
- Percival Lowell's Work Led to the Discovery of the Planet Pluto (2005-12-11)
- Janis Joplin: One of the Most Famous Voices in American Rock Music (2005-12-4)
- George Abbott Was Known as 'Mister Broadway' (2005-11-27)
- Rosa Parks: Mother of the American Civil Rights Movement (2005-11-20)
- James Rouse was a land developer who built shopping malls and a planned city near Washington, D.C. (2005-11-13)
- Ann Landers Gave Advice to Newspaper Readers Across America (2005-11-6)
- Halloween is a good time to celebrate the stories of Edgar Allan Poe (2005-10-30)
- Bessie Coleman Was the First African-American Female Pilot (2005-10-23)
- Jackson Pollock Invented a New Kind of Painting That Changed the Way People Looked at Art (2005-10-16)
- Writer Willa Cather Celebrated Europeans Who Settled in the American Midwest (2005-10-9)
- Country and Western Singer Roger Miller Had Many Hit Songs (2005-10-2)
- Willis Conover Brought Jazz, the Music of Freedom to the World (2005-9-25)
- Arthur Ashe: Tennis Champion and Civil Rights Activist (2005-9-18)
- Writer Dorothy West: Last Living Member of the Harlem Renaissance (2005-9-11)
- Cesar Chavez Organized the First Successful Farm Workers Union in America (2005-9-4)
- Activist for Women's Rights Was Known for Her Strong Opinions, and Large Hats (2005-8-28)
- Louis Khan Helped Define Modern Architecture (2005-8-21)
- From London to Broadway to Hollywood: Jessica Tandy (2005-8-14)
- Leonard Bernstein: Composer, Conductor, Pianist and Teacher (2005-8-7)
- Susan B. Anthony: She Fought for U.S. Women's Right to Vote (2005-7-31)
- Douglas MacArthur: Born to Be a Soldier (2005-7-24)
- Charles Schulz wrote the popular comic strip “Peanuts” for fifty years (2005-7-17)
- Great Writers: Flannery O'Connor Told of Small-Town Life in the South (2005-7-10)
- Music History: Charlie Parker Took Jazz in a New Direction (2005-7-3)
- Eleanor Roosevelt Was the Most Influential Wife of Any American President (2005-6-26)
- 'Happy Days Are Here Again': FDR, One of America's Greatest Presidents (2005-6-19)
- George Gershwin: More of the Life and Music of One of America's Great Songwriters (2005-6-12)
- George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (2005-6-5)
- Barbara McClintock (2005-5-29)
- Jack Benny (2005-5-22)
- Carl Rowan: One of the Most Honored Reporters in the United States (2005-5-15)
- Louisa May Alcott (2005-5-8)
- Aaron Copland: His Music Taught Americans About Themselves (2005-5-1)
- Mary Kay: One of America's Most Influential Women (2005-4-24)
- Langston Hughes: an American Writer (2005-4-10)
- Life Story of Jackie Robinson, the First Black Player in Major League Baseball (2005-4-3)
- Lucille Ball (2005-3-27)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (2005-3-20)
- Elvis Presley (2005-3-13)
- Arthur Miller (2005-3-6)
- Julia Ward Howe (2005-2-27)
- Shirley Chisholm (2005-2-20)
- Frank and Jesse James (2005-2-13)
- Artie Shaw (2005-2-6)
- Barbara Cooney (2005-1-30)
- Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior, Pt. 2 (2005-1-23)
- Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, Pt. One (2005-1-16)
- The Marx Brothers (2005-1-9)
- Nat King Cole (2005-1-2)
