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."
Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.
After the American Colonies declare their independence from Britain, the colonies begin printing their own money.
Frank is in Castillet for six months; conditions are medieval, and he becomes sick and lice-infested.
Using flamethrowers, TNT, machine guns and "Ronson" tanks, the 28th Marines make slow progress capturing Suribachi.
Read first person accounts from people inside the World Trade Center during the attacks.
Following FDR's Executive Order 9066, ten internment camps, located in seven states, received Japanese-American evacuees.
Hines' photographs allow us to travel back in time to view images of children working in canneries.
Hines photographs young children working in adult jobs in mills.
Lewis Hines takes pictures of children working in dangerous American mines.
Iolani palace is now very modern, Old, and had a very long history.
The Ayatollah moves to France and begins to air his views in order to make his country into an Islamic Republic.
8-3.4 Many factors arise to divide a new nation--Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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