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Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entert
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Phineas Taylor Barnum, properly known as P.T. Barnum, was a showman.
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The scientist who fell out of love with eugenics
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Harry Houdini's impulse to escape dangerous situations attracted thousands of spectators.
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The ability to prevent suffering through genetic screenings sparks difficult questions.
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Letter from a father
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1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
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The Evolution of Invention
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Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s.
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Watch the opening scene of Summer of Love.
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MBTA’s Signal Shop, where workers maintain the equipment that keeps the trains on track.
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1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
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