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 Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first major civil rights law since Reconstruction
With Washington as the Commander-in-Chief of their army, the colonists use rebel tactics and traps to hold their ground.
Baseball's first "Colored World Series" takes place in October of 1924. Why did this happen?
The natural-gas compressor station—owned by Pacific Gas & Electric at Hinkley, California—used hexavalent chromium which was discharge...
Harriet Tubman began to conduct slave escapes using the Undergound Railroad.
Conspiracy charges against Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Lewis Payne lead to a death sentence for each of the accused..
Wyatt Earp is arrested and charged with the murders of Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, and Billy Clanton.
Twenty men and one 14-year-old cabin boy leave Nantucket, aboard a whaleship called Essex. They plan to fill the barrels in their cargo hold with oil ...
Neither the Russians nor the US will budge on their positions about Cuba and the missiles.
Russians are installing medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba with enough power to kill 80 million Americans.
Drs. Johan Hultin and Jeffrey Taubenberger study preserved tissue samples from WWI soldiers and from an Inuit woman to conclude the flu virus most lik...
Stonewall Jackson falls while carried from the battlefield and later dies from pneumonia.
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