#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka the Ghost Dance Movement |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist Frederick Douglass |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis Mississippi |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city Louisville |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill San Juan |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: In 2020, this journalist seen here was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching Ida B. Wells |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Sitting Bull was a chief of this people who united under him for survival in the late 19th century the Sioux |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Before his 1821 election to the Tennessee legislature, this frontiersman served as a justice of the peace Davy Crockett |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph, allowing 4 messages to be sent at a time, 2 in each direction Thomas Edison |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just a mining camp that sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold (George Armstrong) Custer |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: In 1865 he & his brother William built an oil refinery in Cleveland they called Standard Works John D. Rockefeller |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This president was a supporter of the Pendleton Civil Service Act Chester Arthur |
#6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin |
#6618, aired 2013-05-29 | THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $600: General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life the bison (or the buffalo) |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington (P.T.) Barnum |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100 (Stephen) Foster |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Hailing from New Hampshire, he's the orator & statesman seen here (Daniel) Webster |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Last of the Whigs was a nickname of this president Fillmore |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man Brigham Young |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | BEER ME! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.) In the mid-19th century, Americans drank mainly heavy, top-fermented ales; the new, lighter lagers pioneered by Adolphus Busch were made possible by the new, European, bottom-fermenting types of this ingredient yeast |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: In the 1830s his telegraph proposals were helped by having Congressman F.O.J. Smith as a partner Morse |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He was playing poker in a Deadwood saloon when he was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 Wild Bill Hickok |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: A cabinetmaker by trade, he developed the railway sleeping car dubbed the "Pioneer" in the 1860s (George) Pullman |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1881 this orator & former slave became Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): In the essay "Friendship", this transcendentalist observed, "Thou art to me a delicious torment" (Ralph Waldo) Emerson |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This 19th century political cartoonist popularized the elephant & donkey as party symbols (Thomas) Nast |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: In 1839 he published "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" Poe |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In 1838 congressman Jonathan Cilley engaged in this--& not a rhetorical one--with Rep. William Graves a duel |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: Later to dominate rail transport, this "commodore" was on the first train ever to have a passenger fatality Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This Illinois girl died in 1835; in 1890, she was reburied in Petersburg, Ill. to drum up tourism there Ann Rutledge |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Ann Eliza Webb was one of this 19th century Utah group that's sometimes counted at 27 women the wives of Brigham Young |
#5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Disgusted by Americans' tobacco chewing, Dickens noted the prevalence of these vessels in public places spittoons |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,800 (Daily Double): It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka the Ghost Dance |
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 | ___ & ___ $2000: The origins of tap lie in this dance created by 19th century African Americans the buck & wing |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Sidney Morse invented the bathometer, to explore the sea; this brother was a better-known inventor Samuel Morse |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Some haunting tales might have been penned at the portable writing desk used by this writer who died in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Douglas Southall Freeman wrote a 4-volume biography of this Virginian & 3 volumes on his "Lieutenants" Robert E. Lee |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: He started his company in 1837 & by 1857 his annual output of plows had risen to 10,000 John Deere |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Stephen Douglas was nicknamed this for his small stature & great oratorical skill "The Little Giant" |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: In 1850 this religious leader became the first governor of the Utah territory Brigham Young |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He began selling his first gum brands, Lotta & Vassar in 1892; Juicy Fruit came a year later William Wrigley |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: At the 1851 World's Fair in London, he won a medal for his "American Daguerreotypes" Mathew Brady |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: His ballad "Beautiful Dreamer" wasn't published until after his death Stephen Foster |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1000: His 1830 poem "Old Ironsides" helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from destruction Oliver Wendell Holmes |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $100: In the 19th century enterprising Americans first added sleeping & dining cars to these trains |
#3688, aired 2000-09-20 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: This painter & farm wife lived for 40 years in the 19th century & 61 years in the 20th Grandma Moses |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Infamous 19th century actor seen here: John Wilkes Booth |
#3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: He compiled an 1850 volume of his photographic portraits called "A Gallery of Illustrious Americans" Mathew Brady |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $100: His song "Old Folks at Home" originally appeared under Edwin P. Christy's name Stephen Foster |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: His 1828 work "An American Dictionary of the English Language" contained about 70,000 entries (Noah) Webster |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $300: About a month after this president's April 27, 1822 birth, he was named Hiram (U.S.) Grant |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: By around 1800 this American began marketing his furs to China Astor |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $500: In 1878 this "Ben Hur" author became governor of the New Mexico Territory Lew Wallace |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: In the War of 1812, William Bainbridge commanded this famous "indestructible" ship the USS Constitution |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He failed to get Congress to annex Hawaii & purchase some Caribbean islands, but did get them to buy Alaska Seward |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: Massachusetts State Senator Horace Mann helped set up the first state board of this in the U.S. education |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1000: When this party was formed in 1834, Daniel Webster became one of its leaders the Whigs |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1832 John C. Calhoun became the first politician in this post to resign vice president |
#2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: The May 8, 1898 Globe-Democrat touted his "Victory... Americans control Manila Bay" Dewey |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: His first successful song, "Oh! Susanna", published in 1848, earned him $100 (Stephen) Foster |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: In 1834 he gave up the fur trade & turned to real estate, where he made an even greater fortune (John Jacob) Astor |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: After a brief term in Congress, 1848-49, this newspaper editor never held a major political office again (Horace) Greeley |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: From 1826-1845 this inventor served as the first President of the National Academy of Design (Samuel) Morse |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): He was a governor of California, a RR magnate, a U.S. senator & a university founder (Leland) Stanford |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: After his 1843 death, this lexicographer's heirs sold his dictionary rights to the GNC Merriam Company Webster |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: On April 3, 1882, Robert Ford shot & killed this outlaw in his St. Joseph, Missouri home Jesse James |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: This U.S. Navy officer negotiated the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened trade with Japan Commodore Perry |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1876-77, he founded the American Library Association & became editor of the "Library Journal" Dewey |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1000: In 1880, this industrialist patented a method for making dry photographic plates (George) Eastman |
#1281, aired 1990-03-12 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $200: This educator's "Compendious Dictionary of the English Language" was 1st published in 1806 Noah Webster |
#1281, aired 1990-03-12 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $400: In 1850 this showman began promoting U.S. tours for opera singer Jenny Lind P.T. Barnum |
#1281, aired 1990-03-12 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $600: Nicknamed "Gentleman Jim", this bank teller won the heavyweight boxing title from John L. Sullivan in 1892 Jim Corbett |
#1281, aired 1990-03-12 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $800: He was in command of the U.S.S. Fulton, an early naval steamship, when he opened U.S. trade with Japan Matthew Perry |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
#8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
#8391, aired 2021-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley |
#8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1858 these 2 men faced each other in Alton, Freeport, Galesburg & 4 other nearby towns Lincoln & Douglas |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Obituaries called this man who died in 1820 a celebrated colonel, the first settler in Kentucky & a man who delighted in perils & battle Daniel Boone |
#7957, aired 2019-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its "awkward, fishy" sound Salmon Chase |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836 Aaron Burr |
#7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum |
#7264, aired 2016-03-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: An account of her historic trial noted, "It was conceded that the defendant was, on the 5th November 1872, a woman" Susan B. Anthony |
#5695, aired 2009-05-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2 Henry David Thoreau |
#1417, aired 1990-10-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: When he died in New York City in 1848, this merchant was the richest man in America John Jacob Astor |
#1344, aired 1990-06-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: 1st & last name of the man who brought insanity proceedings against his famous mother in 1875 Robert Lincoln |