Click here by January 20 for instant access to Howard Hughes' Flight to Immortality –an examination of the man behind the myth and his accomplishments as a daredevil pilot, Hollywood filmmaker, aerospace industry entrepreneur, and founder of one of the country's most prestigious medical research institutes.

Links to a score of related entries provide students with background material on the events and people associated with Howard Hughes and his exploits in Hollywood and as a pilot. A Scholar's Notes essay examines this iconic entrepreneur in business and entertainment as a personification of American character and culture in the mid-20th century.

• Essays on American film, the transportation revolution of the 20th century, the Cold War, and anti-Communism
  
  
• Biographies of the Hollywood stars wooed by Hughes, including Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, and Carole Lombard
  
  
• The Hays Code of 1934 (a primary source document), which details what could and could not be depicted in a movie, in order that audiences "should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin"—a code the limits of which Hughes tested in his films
  
  
• Photographs documenting Howard Hughes throughout his life, pictures of his aircraft, and shots of the Hollywood elite during its most glamorous era

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