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- Remembering Five Interesting Americans (2008-12-28)
- Jesse Owens, 1913- 1980: He Was Once the Fastest Runner in the World (2008-12-21)
- Shirley Horn, 1934-2005: One of the Great Jazz Singers of the 1950s and 1960s (2008-12-14)
- Philo Farnsworth, 1906-1971: The Father of Television (2008-12-7)
- Henry Loomis, 1919-2008: Director of VOA Had the Idea to Create Special English (2008-11-30)
- Mae West, 1893-1980: The Wild Woman of Film and Stage (2008-11-23)
- Marlon Brando, 1924-2004: One of the Greatest Actors of All Time (2008-11-16)
- Ann Landers, 1918-2002: She Helped Millions of People Deal With Their Problems (2008-11-9)
- Paul Robeson, 1898-1976: He Traveled the World Singing Songs to Support Peace and Equal Rights for Black Americans (2008-11-2)
- Paul Robeson,1898-1976: Singer, Actor, and Civil Rights Activist (2008-10-26)
- Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926: She Dared to Dream and Became the First African American Female Pilot (2008-10-19)
- Paul Newman, 1925-2008: Actor, Activist and Racecar Driver (2008-10-12)
- Willa Cather, 1873-1947: She Celebrated Europeans Who Settled in the American Midwest (2008-10-5)
- Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971: (2008-9-28)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962: She Was the Most Influential Wife of Any American President (2008-9-21)
- Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945: One of the Greatest Presidents in American History (2008-9-14)
- Jessica Tandy, 1909-1994: She Performed in More than 100 Plays and Movies (2008-9-7)
- Five Labor Leaders Who Improved Conditions for American Workers (2008-8-31)
- Alan Shepard, 1923-1998: The First American to Travel into Space (2008-8-24)
- Bo Diddley, 1928-2008: Remembering One of the Fathers of Rock and Roll (2008-8-17)
- Dorothy West, 1907-1998: Among the Youngest of the Writers and Artists of New York's Harlem Renaissance (2008-8-10)
- Martha Graham, 1894-1991: The Mother of Modern Dance (2008-8-3)
- Thurgood Marshall, 1908-1993: First African American to Serve on the US Supreme Court (2008-7-27)
- Sydney Pollack, 1934-2008: He Directed, Produced and Acted in Many Popular Hollywood Movies (2008-7-20)
- Janis Joplin, 1943-1970 : One of the Most Famous Voices in Rock Music (2008-7-13)
- Flannery O’Connor, 1925-1964: She Told Stories About People Living in Small Towns in the American South (2008-7-6)
- Ray Charles, 1930-2004: He Created a Sound That Had a Huge Influence on Popular Music (2008-6-29)
- Ray Charles, 1930-2004: Singer, Songwriter and Musician Performed Rock-and-Roll, Rhythm-and-Blues, Even Country-and-Western Music (2008-6-22)
- Susan B. Anthony, 1820 -1906: She Led the Fight to Gain Equal Rights for Women, Including the Right to Vote (2008-6-15)
- Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008: He Redefined Modern Art With His Inventive and Energetic Works (2008-6-8)
- Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888: She Wrote Her First Book at the Age of 16 (2008-6-1)
- Edward R. Murrow, 1908-1965: The Famous Radio and Television Reporter Helped Create Modern News Broadcasting (2008-5-25)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000: The Poet was the First African American to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature (2008-5-18)
- Isaac Stern, 1920 (2008-5-11)
- Barbara McClintock, 1902-1992: She Made Important Discoveries About Genes and Chromosomes (2008-5-4)
- Bella Abzug, 1920-1998: Activist for Women’s Rights was Known for her Large Hats and Strong Opinions (2008-4-27)
- Charlton Heston, 1923-2008: An Actor Famous for Playing Heroic Roles (2008-4-20)
- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The African-American Poet was a Leader of the Harlem Renaissance (2008-4-13)
- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poetic Voice of African Americans (2008-4-6)
- Lou Gehrig, 1903-1941: The Great Baseball Player Considered Himself 'The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth' (2008-3-30)
- Mary Kay Ash, 1918-2001: She Started a Skin Care Company That Has Sales of More Than Two Billion Dollars a Year (2008-3-23)
- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961: One of the Most Famous Writers of the 20th Century (2008-3-16)
- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961: He created a New Kind of Writing. He Was Able to Paint in Words What He Saw and Felt. (2008-3-9)
- Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005: The First Black Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress (2008-3-2)
- Annie Oakley, 1860-1926: One of the Most Famous Sharpshooters in American History (2008-2-24)
- Cole Porter, 1891-1964: He Wrote Songs for Broadway Musicals and Movies That Are Still Popular Today (2008-2-17)
- Cole Porter, 1891-1964: His Songs From the Nineteen Twenties, Thirties and Forties Remain as Fresh as When He Wrote Them (2008-2-10)
- Lucille Ball, 1911-1989: She Was the Funniest Woman on Television (2008-2-3)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968: The Civil Rights Leader Organized the March on Washington, DC in 1963 (2008-1-27)
- Martin Luther King: He Used Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience to Gain Equal Rights for Black Americans (2008-1-20)
- Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910: The Anti-Slavery Activist Wrote One of the Great Civil War Songs (2008-1-13)
- Shel Silverstein, 1930-1999: Poet, Writer, Composer, Singer, Musician and Artist (2008-1-6)
