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."
Edwin Epps orders Platt (Solomon Northup) to beat Patsey, another slave. When Platt defies Epps' wishes, for an even-worse beating, Epps cruelly whip...
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (The Bird) is the worst Japanese guard; he makes life hard for Zamp at several camps. After the war, The Bird hides, begins a new l...
On July 16, 1945, the U.S. set off an atomic device as a test and then decides to use these weapons to bomb Japan.
On March 5, 1770, British Army soldiers kill five civilian men and injure six others in Boston.
The Bowery (meaning "farm" in Dutch) changes from a rural place to a jammed area with poor immigrants.
Dickie Eklund becomes a promising boxer from the depressed city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
General Kimura meets no resistance when the Japanese land in the Philippines; they enter Manila on January 2, 1942.
Leopold and Loeb lure Bobby Franks into a rental car where Loeb allegedly kills the young boy with a chisel.
Read a poem by a 2007 McMullen County Sophomore English Class as a tribute to those killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre.
The Supreme Court gets its own kind of veto power after Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Marbury v Madison..
During the 1930s circuses thrive, look at old circus posters.
Fires burn for three days after the earthquake, leaving thousands dead and the city in ruins.
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