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."
The Quiet American predicts that America will make the same mistakes as France, with similar results.
Warned by Paul Revere, colonial soldiers stand their ground at Lexington against the British; this begins the American Revolutionary War.
The location of the invasion is a secret, but battle details are planned and practiced.
T-Rex is an extinct, North American meat-eating dinosaur first rediscovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
Letters From a Broken Apple is an illustrated comic of Neil Kleid's view of New York on September 11.
Darrow is able to win over the judge who shows mercy to both Loeb and Leopold.
Lewis and Clark reach their goal, the Pacific Ocean, in early January 1806.
By the time a guard of British soldiers arrived at the town of Lexington - on April 19, 1775 - most of the minutemen under Captain John Parker's comma...
Thomas Nickerson, George Pollard and Owen Chase returned to Nantucket after the wreck of the Essex. Each coped in different ways as they tried to reco...
Mike Williams jumps 10-stories from the Deepwater Horizon rig to save himself, but 11 other men die and 17 are injured.
Solomon Northup, known as "Platt," experiences slave life in Louisiana with a "good master" and a "bad master."
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