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."
Henry Mucci and his special forces surprise the Japanese and rescue prisoners from Cabanatuan.
T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.
Dickie goes to jail for carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery; he emerges a changed man.
Herb Morrison reports live as the Hindenburg approaches the landing site and catches fire.
Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.
HMSResolute, a British Navy ship, becomes trapped in the Arctic ice. The crew abandons the ship but a whaler later finds it.
The Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh rallies the Vietnamese people and beats the French.
People save possessions by burying them in the sand before they flee the October 1871 fires in Holland, Michigan.
Hoover leaves the work of capturing bank robbers to local police until Dillinger commits a federal offense across state lines.
The Great Depression begins after the 1929 stock market crash and is the worst economic disaster in American history.
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