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."
Despite Japan's success at the Pearl Harbor attack, American fuel storage, power plant and Navy repair yard remain unharmed and fully functional.
The Sullivan Brothers give their all, and live-on in posters which remind U.S. citizens to give the war effort all they can.
Just like the Deepwater Horizon itself, with its many moving parts, the disaster at the rig includes many details. This story summarizes the key issue...
Charleston, Camden, Cowpens, Kings Mountain, and Eutaw Springs Indicator 8-2.5
Japanese anti-aircraft damage Super Man over Nauru, and bomb the island of Funafuti. Zamp and his crew use Green Hornet for a search and rescue missio...
While running for office, many candidates suffer ridicule in local and national media outlets.
In 1979, student protesters take over the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take hostages.
With help from France, Americans win their war of independence when the British surrender at Yorktown.
Japan surrenders on August 14, 1945, just eight days after the US drops an atom bomb on Hiroshima.
In order to survive, starving men of the whaleship Essex resort to cannabilism, the very thing which kept them from seeking refuge at islands much-clo...
Rosenthal's photograph of Mt. Suribachi is famous, and survivors of the flag-raising return to the US to raise money for the war effort.
Susan and her sister Mary used the 14th Amendment to convince officials to let them register to vote.
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