From its rhythmic roots in turn-of-the-century New Orleans to the stages of today's prestigious concert halls, jazz music has traveled a long and colorful path over the past one hundred years. Lucent's History of Jazz explores the music, the people, and the social milieu that made this exciting, American-made music into the phenomenon that it is today. (20030301)...

Women played an important role in American culture, politics, and society during the 1960s. Women of the 1960s explores the people, places, and times that were altered by female activists, musicians, politicians, authors, and others....