American History Chapters

America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Barely sixteen, Jesse participates with William Quantrill and his men in killing citizens of Lawrence Kansas.

Jesse takes part in theCentralia Massacre, in which his group kills or wounds 22 unarmed Union troops.

You will know why Japan attacked Hawaii.

Key watches the flag fly from the British ship as the battle continues, then wonders why the shelling stops.

At 7:53 a.m. the Japanese first attack American planes and then begin to bomb "Battleship Row"; finally at 7:58 a.m., air raid sirens begin.

Flight 77 strikes the Pentagon killing all 70 people onboard and 190 people in the building.

Critics of "That Convention" say it resembles "a lunatic asylum, and that Susan "represented the aggressive female American brains."

To get rid of all the evidence, Webster cuts up Parkman's body and burns the pieces in his Harvard lab.

Read a poem about the life of Austin Michelle Cloyd, an 18 year-old freshman in International Studies and French.

Perfect for advertising, Allen & Ginter is the first company to use baseball cards as cigarette package-inserts.

Although Antwone Fisher is not a juvenile delinquent, he spends time in the George Junior Republic reform school in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

During late November, 1820, the Essex was attacked by a whale. The real-life story inspired the tale of "Moby Dick."

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