Asked to evaluate his son's abilities as an intellectual, the elder Edison said that he was, “absolutely illiterate, ...

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Porter, who worked for Thomas Edison’s film company, served his boss’s goal to ... Image Credit: Micheaux Book & Film Company. Because The Birth of a Nation and D.W. Griffith draw so much attention, ...

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Tim Boyle / Newsmakers When a colleague asked Thomas Edison how he’d made so many ... to be wealthy and powerful just by virtue of their birth. They were looking for a way of life that was ...

While living in Los Angeles as a newlywed in 1986, Jana Kirlin Brownell got a harrowing call from her mother. Her father, ...